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AMAMI House / Sakai Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

When I began designing my own house in the center of Amami Island, I never imagined it would eventually be disconnected from the power grid. Yet, as environmental degradation accelerates and extreme weather becomes the norm, that choice became inevitable. The decision was catalyzed by a mountain I purchased three years earlier—a place where I began developing my own micro-infrastructure to live independently, preparing for unforeseen crises while envisioning new forms of resilience in aging, depopulated regions.

Kotobuki Hotel / micelle

Hana Abdel — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Business hotel in Kanoya, the central city of Japan's southernmost peninsula. The idea was to build a business hotel on a low budget, which was necessary for the current situation, and to provide an opportunity for the city, which is conspicuously lacking in tourism resources, where vacant lots stand out like insects. The parking lot behind the hotel was also acquired as a site, and iand an extension building was constructed to provide the necessary floor space without demolishing the existing building. This extension reduced the number of vacant lots on the street, even if only slightly, and created a small streetscape with four buildings(three facilities), including a cheese factory designed by us on a neighboring site for enhanced food education and an existing restaurant next to it, creating lively activities and events of pedestrian scale.

House in Toguchi / Sakai Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Designed for an emergency medicine physician and beautician couple with three children and a dog, the house with a small hair salon is in a lush area overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the northern part of Amami Oshima Island. Although the part of the tropical island is not conveniently located, with only some vacation homes and guesthouses around, the couple chose the location for two reasons: One is to raise their children in nature; the other is to offer the client, who is engaged in the demanding job of an ER doctor, a refreshing moment to leave the hustle and bustle of the city and return to a nature-rich environment. The site, spanning over 1,000 m2, gradually slopes down seven meters from the mountain to the sea, and the house is laid out to minimize its interference with the landscape.

Tsumugu House / Archipatch

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 19:00:00 +0000

It is a wooden one-story house built in a region full of nature, where four family members will live in it. In Japan, the functions required for home due to the Covit19 have diversified at once. The house has become more frequently used not only as a place of living but also as a place of work and socializing.

Weekend House in Kirishima / EAL

Hana Abdel — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000

This is a weekend house in Kirishima, Japan.The living space is only one-third of the total floor area and the multi-purpose garage and storage account for the rest. So, this house is like a small residence built in a large warehouse. It was intended to turn this unusual areal balance to its advantage and consider new solutions for a sustainable building.

Shirasu, Sakurajima EcoHouse / ASEI ARCHITECTS

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Modern architecture has three established branches: design, structure and equipment. In recent years where environmental consideration has become a prerequisite in designing new buildings, an increased number of efforts to review regional characteristics are being put into design and equipment. However, such efforts have not yet reached the branch of structure, and buildings are usually designed based on common reason when structure was environmental architecture in and of itself before Modernism—a branch principally based on regional characteristics.

AM Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro

Florencia Mena — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 23:00:00 +0000

Akune City where AM Kindergarten and Nursery is located is in northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture, and is a port town that has a beautiful coast line、which is as long as about 40 kilometers facing the East China Sea. The site is in spacious fallow, which is several hundred meters away from the coast line. In the area around the site that has been the fallow for a long time, there are tall trees producing an environment with full of nature surrounded by the trees.

House in Kiirenakamyo / Suppose Design Office

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:00:00 +0000

The house on a boundary line.

Japan's Abandoned Golf Courses Get Second Life As Solar Farms

Karissa Rosenfield — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

With a goal to double the amount of its renewable energy power sources by 2030, Japan has begun to transform abandoned golf courses into massive solar energy plants. As Quartz reports, Kyocera, a company known for its floating solar plants, has started construction on a 23-megawatt solar plant on an old golf course in the Kyoto prefecture (scheduled to open in 2017). The company also plans to break ground on a similar, 92-megawatt plant in the Kagoshima prefecture next year. Pacifico Energy is also jumping on the trend; with the help of GE Energy Financial Services, the company is overseeing two solar plant golf course projects in the Okayama prefecture. The idea is spreading too; plans to transform gold courses into solar fields are underway in New York, Minnesota and other US states as well.

Hybrid Wooden House / Architecture Studio Nolla

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 16 May 2015 20:00:29 +0000

This is a house for a couple and two children in Kagoshima, south-west part of Japan, where high temperature and humidity. It was aimed to passively control the indoor climate in connection with surroundings, building composition and physics, and room arrangement by referring traditional local building solutions.

Floating Solar Array Makes Statement in Japan

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Solar panels are often an added bonus in design, becoming a means to an end. But why shouldn't they be the star of the show? A recent article in Metropolis Magazine shows off the Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant, the largest solar facility in Japan. A symbolic response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the power plant is but one project in Japan's transition into one of the fastest growing solar markets in the world. Check out the full story here.

Shirasu Residence / ARAY Architecture

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The resident did not rely on energy in South Kyushu of high temperature and humidity, and hoped for ecology life with the environment.