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Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House / Okuno Architectural Planning

Hana Abdel — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:00:00 +0000

The Nikotama Terrace is a cooperative house located on the hillside of the Kokubunji cliff line that runs from Futakotamagawa to Kinuta. The site faces the slope called "Mamushizawa", which used to be a valley, and is protected by the cliff line ordinance. It is a green place, like a mountain, surrounded by native species of the Musashino Plateau. There is also a large retaining wall on the site to eliminate the height difference. The main concern was how to confront this retaining wall and the building while making the best use of the height difference in the surrounding area? The design answer came as a row house (10 dwelling units) with a green valley.

Butterfly House / UID Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000

We have always thought about the relationships between architecture and the garden, searching for ways to enhance and extend these domains. We have also been focused on incorporating the free, undefined spatial quality of Japanese architecture into our designs by reinterpreting the idea of the eaves, canopy, and engawa (Japanese-style loggia). In this house, we are giving new thought to roofs and the spaces they create inside a natural environment.

Casaneiro House / UID Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000

To construct architecture is to create an environment.

Tsukushi Nursery School Foresta Karankoro / UID Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Village-esque Nursery School

House in Zenpukuji / aoyagi design

Hana Abdel — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:00:00 +0000

The site is a small lot of about 50 square meters located in a residential district on the outskirts of Tokyo. While the view is blocked on three sides, the ground level is 2 meters higher than the road facing the eastern side. This gives it a unique floating feel and open views toward the schoolyard on the opposite side of the road. The house is for a couple, who are also the architects of the project, and their children.

White Arbor and Open Air Theater / APL design workshop

Hana Abdel — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Maezawa Garden House* in Kurobe City, a small city facing the Japan Sea, has a vast natural garden made up of undulating lawn topography with trees. There is an amphitheater named the “Open Air Theater” in the corner of the garden. It is integrated into the landscape design. It consists of gentle lawn slope that was here prior to our commitment, a circular mound with diameter of X m and a semicircular bank with steps made of timber ties for railroad. Lawn slope and bank are facing each other across the circular mound.

House in Shimomuraki / Aki Hamada Architects

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The site is in a community in Toyama with houses and shops sprawling in a relatively relaxed manner. There is a playground in the neighboring area on the southeastern side, and the Tateyama mountain range can be seen beyond that. We placed an L-shape volume like the chumon-zukuri (a traditional L-shaped style house) inside the trapezoidal-shaped site and arranged a child room and garage that can be used as a future shop facing a front road on the west side.

Substrate Factory Ayase / Aki Hamada Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 24 May 2017 19:00:00 +0000

This is an extension to an existing circuit board factory located near Atsugi base. The first floor area, which had originally been planned as a workshop, was changed to be used as a showroom and a multi-purpose space for local community, and therefore versatility and openness were required. Furthermore, since future reconstruction of the currently used factory building was under consideration, we tried to design an extension allowing for multiple uses, while providing adjustable spaces and programs in accordance with the active involvement of users. This building is constructed of a frame structure model designed to accommodate various conditions and requirements, as well as fitting and hardware elements allowing fine tuning by improving their adjustability and renewability. Those spaces in the building are characterized by the composition juxtaposing those elements without losing their original characteristics.

Olioli / Seets + Spectacle

Sabrina Leiva — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000

Transitory space amongst trees: “Ma” from the outdoors to private space

China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum / Kengo Kuma & Associates

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:00:00 +0000

The folk art museum stands in the campus of China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside.

Shrimp / UID Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000

The new three-dimensional courthouse in the city.

House in Pakse / Makoto Yamaguchi Design

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:00:00 +0000

The project site is located in the town of Pakse, Laos, on an estate overlooking the Mekong River. It is one of the three huge buildings of classical European style, which had been designed and built a few years ago by a Thai architect as the residence for a certain family. The subject building was for the daughter of the family, our client, who requested that we provide the interior design for her residence. She wished for a contemporary and simple motif in contrast with the exterior.

Shichigahama Tohyama Nursery / Takahashi Ippei Office

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:00:43 +0000

This is a reconstruction project for a public nursery affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. It was carried out as “a leading project for creative restoration”. Located near the ocean, the school is in a peaceful area full of nature. I wanted the new building to be in harmony with its surrounding environment and not to disturb the atmosphere.

Cosmic / UID

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Dwelling is to put oneself in an interactive environmental domain that surrounds humans and other living creatures. There unfold various activities to which living creatures engage themselves for survival. Further expansion of such domain will surely lead us to view the totality of environment as a dwelling as it stretches unsegmented from city to forest and sea and finally from the earth into outer space. The ever-changing ways of living things such as humans and plants, land topographies or climatic conditions all remind us that nothing in our would stays the same forever. My interest lies in the rich spatial domain in which one may perceive in the course of daily life such changes of nature that are the very heartbeats of the earth.

House with Gardens / Tetsuo Kondo Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is a home built in Yokohama for a couple and their two kids.

Cloudscapes at MOT / Tetsuo Kondo Architects + TRANSSOLAR / Matthias Schuler

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

We created a small bank of clouds in the Sunken Garden of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The clouds billow softly in a compact, transparent container and can be seen from the entrance hall, exhibition galleries, outdoor plaza, and other parts of the museum.

House in Chayagasaka / Tetsuo Kondo Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is a private residential house for a family of four in Nagoya - a young couple and their two small children. The site is located close to a new metro station, in an area that is developing rapidly. As both of the parents work, they wanted to have as much common areas as possible, in order to spend more time together as a family. So I decided to build a one-room house, with a lot of subtle balance between connected and separated area.

Pit House / UID Architects

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000