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House TN / 1-1 Architects

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:00:00 +0000

This project is a house planned within a rural settlement located in an urbanization control area. The surrounding context is characterized by generous single-story farmhouse dwellings. However, due to the site's favorable location, land subdivision has recently accelerated, and an increasing number of parcels are being sold as speculative housing developments or ready-built homes. These houses, driven by profitability and ease of sale, tend to maximize building coverage ratios and are subdivided internally into increasing numbers of nLDK units. As a result, the neighborhood has become denser, with deteriorating daylighting and ventilation conditions, confining residents within overcrowded and inflexible interiors.

House & Office SH / 1-1 Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

This project is for a new office and residence for a construction company with a 50-year history in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. The client owned two large warehouses near the site, both overflowing with unused timber—mostly surplus wood ordered in bulk by the previous generation, who had been a carpenter, along with reclaimed lumber collected during demolition. Although there were no clear plans for its use, the material had continued to accumulate year after year, too valuable to discard. Many construction companies and lumberyards across Japan hold similar stockpiles of timber lying dormant in warehouses.

House KJ / 1-1 Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The house is on one of the plots of a large developed field in the Japanese countryside. The site was surrounded by long, narrow, distorted roads that had existed for a long time, and the land had a deformed flagpole shape. As a result, variously angled property boundaries and buildings surrounded the site, and no matter where one stood on the site, one felt a tenuous relationship with the neighboring land. This project attempted to create a new relationship with the outside, including the neighboring land, by designing the distance between the building and the site boundary on a deformed flagpole lot with distorted contours.

House ST / 1-1 Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:00:00 +0000

The site is a newly created lot in front of station redevelopment in a local city. Despite its location in a commercial area, the client decided to live here for various reasons. Therefore, the site is located less than a minute's walk from the station and is surrounded by a new wide road and a large plot of undeveloped land characteristic of a commercial area.

House HM / 1-1 Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000

It is a housing plan in a rural area of Japan. The site is located next to an old shrine and is surrounded by people, big trees, and narrow streets that have lived there for a long time. The client liked this rich environment and bought this land. Therefore, we designed a house that directly feels the surrounding environment of this site.

House OS / 1-1 Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

It is a plan for a two-family house for the owner who runs a tropical plant farm with the whole family. In the countryside of Japan, legal farmland and residential land are adjacent to each other and are mixed. The owner of this project also purchased a site consisting of three types of land: "residential land", " farmland (with a road)" and " farmland (without a road)".

House SM / 1-1 Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The site is located in Kariya Aichi in Japan, and there are many automobile-related companies in the city. The area around the site was set as a semi-industrial area, and many old factories and many houses were mixed. We plan a house that adapts to a town with a mixture of large and small scales.

Apartment MK / 1-1 Architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:00:00 +0000

The site is in Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture in Japan, and there are many apartments to the concentration of affiliated companies of major automobile manufacturers in the surrounding area. On the other hand, many green spaces and fields like farm left for development by the Green Land Law remain. The owner has lived in this area for many years and has long been a landowner who owns this site and many others.

Clinic NK / 1-1 Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 18:00:00 +0000

The site is a long shape facing the 4-lane highway on the north side and 4 meters wide on the south side, giving void to the townscape along these roads. The plan described here is building a dental clinic specializing in aesthetic dentistry and pediatric dentistry here.