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Architecture as a Living Medium: Get to Know the Works of IGArchitects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +0000

Founded in 2020 by Masato Igarashi, IGArchitects is an architectural practice based in Tokyo and Saitama, Japan. The studio, one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, explores enduring architecture through a careful yet assertive treatment of structure, scale, and materiality. Prior to establishing his own practice, Igarashi worked at the large-scale firm Shimizu Sekkei as well as the Suppose Design Office, gaining experience across projects ranging from major developments to smaller, concept-driven works. This breadth of experience continues to inform IGArchitects' current focus on residential and commercial architecture across Japan.

WEAVE House / 2321Architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0000

"Weave" takes its name from the ideas of interlacing and spinning. The house pursues a living environment with a tangible "grain," woven from natural materials, passive performance, and everyday culture. Rather than leaning one-sidedly on technical metrics, it layers light and wind, materiality, and the rituals of daily life with care, seeking a stance that is attentive to the environment and a form of architecture that stays close to how people actually live.

The House Apart / IGArchitects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The client decided to build a new home for their family on a corner of the property where their parents' house stands. The site is a former private road, measuring 4 meters wide and 35 meters deep. To the north of the site is the client's parents' house, to the south lies a large vacant lot owned by the government, and to the east is a cliff with a 4-meter elevation difference.

Grand Room House / IGArchitects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The site is located on the edge of a residential development surrounded by a rural landscape, facing both a busy road and a private lane. The client—a family of four consisting of a couple and their two young children—desired a generous, flexible home that could accommodate changes in their lifestyle as their children grow.

Kumagaya House / CHOP+ARCHI

Hana Abdel — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The nuclear family structure, which the anthropologist George Murdock argued was universal, has been the predominant family structure in Japan since the postwar period.

2700 House / IGArchitects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This house for a young married couple is built on a long and thin site with a frontage of 2.9m and a depth of 16m, which was left over as a result of road expansion. By making use of the long depth of the building, a relationship between the interior space and the exterior is intended to be made, which could be possible only with a 2.7m frontage.

WO House / Yo Yamagata Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

A rich place to live created by two types of natural light. The client wanted a small house where he could live comfortably by himself after retirement.

Check Patterned House / IGArchitects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:00:00 +0000

This is a reinforced concrete structured house for a family of 3. This house was required to respond flexibly to changes in their lifestyle and the store they own.

Blue Box Office / Eureka + HHO + Keio Architecture Sano Lab

Hana Abdel — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

A two-story wooden office building on a sloping land in a densely-built residential area. The office spaces are mainly on the upper floor and are filled with indirect natural light, while the ground floor is open to the surrounding area and serves as a link between the office space on the upper floor and the local community. The structural timber frames leaning against the rigid concrete retaining wall create the open ground floor space.

Father and Son's House / Unemori Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This project is a combination of renovation and new construction. The site is in a suburban residential area with a mix of old and new houses. The main house, an annex, a workshop, and a warehouse were built by the owner's father, a carpenter, during his lifetime. These had been enlarged and remodeled at least four times. The plan called for converting the annex and workshop into a residence for the son, who is the owner, and his family, and for maintaining the family's lifestyle while keeping an adequate distance from the main house where the mother lives.

Abe House / masafumiharigaiarchitecture

Hana Abdel — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Swaying Fixed Point - Is it possible to think of architecture from the perspective of a structure in which bodily sensations are the determining factor? In this architecture, we started by thinking separately about the structure that bears the horizontal force and the outline of the building, without making the optimization of the preceding form a proposition of the structure. In the end, we created a structure in which a thin rectangular frame that defines the living area wraps around a spine-like polygonal framework placed in the center of the space. Both act as if they have separate intentions while influencing each other.

House in Sashiogi / Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES/Architects

Thuto Vilakazi — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Open-Plan Updated: In the outskirts of Tokyo, this residence finds itself in the middle of the countryside, surrounded by fields and buildings scattered around. The site is almost 300 sq.m., more than sufficient for a small residence. The immediate thought that came into my mind, when I visited the site for the first time, was that an open-plan, one-story house would be good for this environment.

Enhako Building / Organic Design Inc.

Hana Abdel — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Located about 15 minutes on foot from the nearest train station in a suburb, Enhako Building sits on the border between a residential neighborhood and a mixed commercial-government district. The client contacted us as they were considering the site but unsure whether a leased commercial building there would be able to attract a steady flow of people given the location is a block off the main road and not very close to the station.

Cultivatable House / IN STUDIO

Hana Abdel — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:00:00 +0000

For generations, the family of the client has maintained a farm household by cultivating their fields in this site in the central area of Saitama prefecture. Houses in this farming area used to share an orderly pattern, commonly with a water path, a farmhouse, sheds, and fields in a row from north to south, but in recent times newly built houses and car garages have disordered the overall pattern into the sprawling of suburban landscapes in the countryside.

House in URAWA / Kazuya Saito Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Architecture allows us to control the sense of distance with a single line. The client wanted to create a low-cost home for a young couple and their three children, where they could feel the presence of nature and their family without being seen. In order to achieve this, we sought a living space that was architecturally feasible with a minimum of floors and walls.

House S / atelier N

Hana Abdel — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Villages and neighborhood relationships Based on the characteristics of the Japanese people, who are less involved with neighboring residents, this house aims to live comfortably while having a relationship with the external space.

House in Iruma / aoyagi design

Valeria Silva — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The site is in a residential area in the suburbs, and the house is for a couple and their child. The composition is that of an introspective triangular attic space sitting on an open first floor of wooden and steel construction.

Sayama Lakeside Cemetery Community Hall / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000

This cemetery is located in the lush forests of the Sayama hills. The community hall stands midway on a slope above a city. The site enjoys excellent views, but we sought not to open the building fully to its scenery nor, for that matter, to entirely close it. Rather, we wanted to create a space that, while open, would have a degree of closure. To this end, we gathered the service-related rooms in a central, reinforced-concrete core and arranged the visitor lounge and dining rooms around the core on a circular plan open to the exterior.