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Haniyasu House / AATISMO

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

1. Opening Hook – Haniyasu House is a two-family residence that reconnects living and making through an architecture shaped by earth, craft, and shared daily life.

Atelier in Kamakura / YUJI OKITSU

Valeria Silva — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This project was to renovate a 90-year-old house on the edge of a hillside in Kamakura, Japan into an atelier. The building is situated on a flat site in the middle of a steep cliff, characteristic of Kamakura, with a size just large enough for a single house. It is a new annex to the main house where the clients spend most of their time.

Fueda House / ROOVICE

Hana Abdel — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Transforming a 1970s Wooden House in Fueda, Kamakura, into a Pet-Friendly Home - A modest two-story wooden house from the 1970s in Fueda, Kamakura, has been thoughtfully renovated to meet the needs of a young couple and their pets. The redesign focuses on functionality and comfort, balancing practicality with smart design choices.

Kite-Shaped House / Shuji Yamada

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Kite-Shaped House Reflecting Site Conditions - Built on an irregular plot in Kamakura, this house features a distinctive kite-shaped floor plan. It strikes a balance between privacy and openness by using walls and approaches to blur the boundaries of the site, creating rhythm in the surrounding streetscape.

Apartment in Kamakura / ROOVICE

Hana Abdel — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Situated in the mountainous region of Kamakura, a town renowned for its proximity to the sea, this apartment within a residential complex has undergone a significant transformation under the meticulous guidance of Roovice. Originally designed with a 4DK layout featuring outdated elements such as a dark kitchen and multiple small rooms, the renovation aimed to breathe modernity into the space while seamlessly integrating it with the natural beauty of the surrounding landscape, particularly enchanting during the spring bloom of Sakura trees.

A Cat Tree House / Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL

Hana Abdel — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Rethinking a home through the eyes of clients who don’t speak human language - The project planned as a residence and studio of its architect is in Kamakura, a city filled with rich history and lush greenery and located about an hour from central Tokyo. In the house lives a couple in their thirties with two cats. For cats, the house is their whole world. Wishing to learn how to design a home from the perspectives of our dearest felines, we decided to regard our two cats as “two clients.” Having lived with the two for ten years, we took our design cues from “listening” to them, although they do not speak human words.

Kamakura House / ROOVICE

Valeria Silva — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0000

This private house was originally built back in 1991 and is situated in Ōmachi, a locality in the historical city of Kamakura in the Kanagawa Prefecture. The building is placed on a hillside surrounded by nature, resulting in beautiful landscapes in every direction faced at. Before the modernization, the kitchen, living, and Japanese-style rooms were all separated in their own enclosed area. This fragmentation spoiled the efficiency of the surface and created a complicated circulation inside.

Yamanone no ie House / FUDO

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 07 May 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The house is located at the bottom of a mountain. The site has a narrow frontage and a wide back(trapezoid shape). To design a house on such a unique site, we carefully surveyed the nature and surroundings. We then, chose a shape as if it was carved from the terrain. The house is designed to snuggle up to the surrounding mountains, providing air, light, and water passages.

House or Garden and Margin / MURAYAMA + KATO ARCHITECTURE

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The renovation project of a non-reconstructable house. To keep the excess building-to-land ratio within the legal limit, the south side of the house, where the ground had subsided, was reduced, the east and west sheds were removed, and the remaining north side building was structurally sounded.　

Kitakamakura House / Takahiro Endo Architects Office

Hana Abdel — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Kitakamakura house, Sociality of the house /open to the local community. The house is located on the mountain in Kitakamakura old and very quiet residential area. In this neighborhood, you can find many windows with closed curtains and shutters, it almost looks like a silent gesture of residents, refuses to socialize with the local community.

T3 House / CUBO design architect

Hana Abdel — Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This house was designed for an international couple based in Japan, France, and the United States – a French artist and his Japanese wife – who are keenly interested in the aesthetic of Japanese gardens, as well as Japanese culture and architecture. The house is nestled quietly atop a hill in the historic Japanese city of Kamakura, a wonderfully scenic location overlooking the Shonan coastline, with distant views of Japan’s iconic peak of Mount Fuji.

Modern Ryokan Kishi-ke Guest House / G architects studio

Hana Abdel — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Modern Ryokan kishi-ke operated by Kishi-ke Co., Ltd is a coastal small ryokan in Kamakura, the former capital of Japan, in the suburbs of Tokyo. Kishi-ke takes just one group up to 4 people at once which makes it one of the smallest ryokan-style lodgings in the World. More than an accommodation - the ocean-view private retreat is based on the concept of 'stay & experience' and the Zen's chisoku which means 'to know the feeling of being fulfilled with the now'. kishi-ke provides luxury settings, kaiseki cuisine, authentic masters, crafted masterpieces, local people and places to allow guests to encounter Japan in a new way and help them achieving the chisoku, the harmony in their life.

Sasameza / Yuji Tanabe Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0000

SASAMEZA are twins, two-story commercial buildings (8 tenants) at commercial block located in the Kamakura city, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It has 8 retails. The site faces Yuigahama-street, which is a bus street from central Kamakura to the Big Buddha. There are some shops on this street that make you feel Kamakura villa culture more than 100 years ago.

Y House / Kensuke Watanabe Architecture Studio

Valentina Villa — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:00:00 +0000

The site is located in Kamakura, one of the ancient city of Japan. Y house is a house for a couple and their three children.

House in Kamakura Zaimokuza / Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:00:00 +0000

Two housing is designed from site division. Divides the land, it was decided to design a separate family are two for live house in Kamakura Zaimokuza. Site of about a minute walk from the coast, is a gentle place to smell the sea wind.

House in Gokurakuji / Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I move from Kamakura Station to the residential area by a train. I pass through the small tunnel covered by trees. Then I appear in many places of green preserved in the mountain. I go down the station, and a flat way spreads out. A site looks like the valley along the slant when I go up the slope of the immediate slant.

House Like a Museum / Edward Suzuki Associates

Victoria King — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

“House like a Museum”

House in Kitakamakura / Suppose Design Office

Nico Saieh — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Among the plots of land for sale in Kita Kamakura there are some sites in the outskirts which at first glance have the- negative condition of being uneven. This is a plan to create an appealing living space by building directly over that- uneven land.