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KOKUYO DIG / DDAA + KOKUYO

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Learning reshapes how we see the world by revealing what we did not know and sharpening our perspective. It is a cycle where knowledge sparks new questions, curiosity drives exploration, and inquiry fuels further learning. This process enriches life, and through the accumulated efforts of past generations, our world has gradually been formed.

0 Club Coworking Space / DDAA

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 01 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Many people might not be familiar with the technology area called Climate Tech. This term refers to a technology often discussed that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions or dealing with the effects of global warming. Many startups in Japan and overseas are addressing the issue of decarbonization in the business world while also pursuing profitable business ventures. DDAA designed the interior of the 0 Club, a coworking space for startups, VCs, and academics specializing in Climate Tech and related businesses. The term "Climate Tech" covers a wide range of approaches to the goal of carbon neutrality, including the development of alternative and clean energy sources to replace petroleum, measures to address construction materials such as concrete and steel that emit large amounts of CO2 and toxic substances during the production process, the development of upcycled and recycled materials with low environmental impact, and measures to reduce food loss. The 0 Club was created as a place for companies in this field to come together.

Circulation Retail and Repair Workshop / DDAA

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000

There is a four-way junction a short walk from Ebisu Station, where you will find an art gallery, CAGE GALLERY, and the Hender Scheme flagship store, sukima Ebisu, both run by laicoS, across the road from each other. laicoS seeks out interesting properties and creates galleries and shops to match the context. This project involved renovating the semi-basement space of a building on one corner of the four-way junction into a place called circulation for repairing and reselling products.

Kyoto Takashimaya S.C. T8 Commercial Space / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Kyoto Takashimaya S.C. is located at the intersection of Shijo-Kawaramachi, one of the busiest streets in Kyoto, and this project involved expanding the store's floors on the adsite. Upon receiving the initial briefing from the client, we learned that the project already established a theme of a "new zakkyo building," with different designers assigned to each floor, from the first basement to the seventh floor above ground. The term "zakkyo building" refers to a commercial building accommodating miscellaneous types of businesses and tenants. We intuitively sensed the potential of the term "zakkyo building" as we started the design process, leaving aside the prefix "new." We spent two years thinking about what a "zakkyo building" is.

HAKUHODO Gravity Office / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What is an office? After the COVID-19 craze, online meetings and remote working have become the norm. Thanks to the improved communications environment, we can work from anywhere. The boundary between home and office is blurring, and the meaning and function of an office are becoming increasingly difficult to define.

NOT A HOTEL ANYWHERE / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

NOT A HOTEL ANYWHERE is an experimental project that began with a request to design a new, more mobile, location-independent way of living, using vintage trailers as its base. In response to the client's request to develop five vehicles to rent, we proposed creating living spaces using five vehicles, each equipped with only one function, such as a bedroom or study car. Our idea was to offer a more fulfilling way of living than conventional homes, in which one can choose a vehicle as needed and take it on a journey without being bound to a particular location.

all day place Hotel / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

This project involves a 160-room hotel operated by UDS under the theme of a "public house in the city." The site is halfway up the slope from Shibuya (meaning "Shibu valley") to Aoyama (meaning a "blue mountain"), literally the midpoint between the valley and the mountain. It has an atmosphere combining Shibuya and Aoyama. In front of the site is Mitake Park. Here we set out to create a hotel with a welcoming public atmosphere that embraces people's unrestrained behaviors and noises, echoing the park environment.

Hender Scheme Kuaramae / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This project is to renovate an entire concrete building near Kuramae Station into a showroom and office for IaicoS, which operates Hender Scheme and Polyploid. There are a few simple, specific rules for this space. The first is to use raw-edged materials as they are without significant edge treatment except for deburring. The second is to use the colors of materials as they are as much as possible without color matching. The third is to treat opposites, such as craft/industrial, front/back, artificial/natural, and cheap/luxurious as equally as possible.

Maruhiro Office “Ouchi” / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0000

The office of the Hasami pottery brand Maruhiro is a project to renovate an 86-year-old Japanese house located just behind "Hiroppa", a complex project including a park and directly-managed store currently under planning at DDAA.

Dappled House 4F / Private Room / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:00:00 +0000

A room for wine lovers - Architects usually have to deal with many conditions given by clients, especially when designing a house, because it directly affects people's life. They spend large amount of money in building it and then spend many hours in it once it is built. On the contrary, this project involved few conditions given by our client, because this room would be used as his "second home" and "lounge" for private gatherings and he only needed very basic life functions. His only request for us was to design a "place to enjoy good wine with close friends" and a "table made of solid wood."

Dappled House / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000

The existing building, built in 1986 at the height of the "bubble economy" period in Japan, is a typical example of so-called "bubble architecture".