Pit garden in Passive House / D Environmental Design System Laboratory

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0000

In the 21st century, the ancient pit dwelling is transformed into a "pit garden." In the "pit garden," the sun's heat replaces the fire to provide warmth in winter and the night breezes to cool the house in summer.　This idea is based on the fact that the "ancestor" of the passive house, which collects heat in winter in the earthen floor, is the pit dwelling, which has a furnace in the center of the earthen floor. However, there is a crucial difference between a pit dwelling and a passive house.

Movable Shinto Shrine / Kikuma Watanaeb + D Environmental Design System Laboratory

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

This is a self-built portable shrine in a depopulated village in the moutain region of Kochi in Japan. In 2015, the pre-existing shrine called Kanamine-jinja was deeply injured by a heavy typhoon that hit the village. The Kanamine Shinto shrine had two architectural components: one is the front shrine dedicated to worshipers while the other was the rear shrine, where main shrine was set.

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Pit garden in Passive House / D Environmental Design System Laboratory

Movable Shinto Shrine / Kikuma Watanaeb + D Environmental Design System Laboratory