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Atami House / Noforma Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000

ATAMI taught us to seek the hidden potential within the historic and cultural fabric of a building, embrace it, and carry it forward into a new chapter of its life. The house presented itself as a traditional Japanese structure, with multiple rooms divided by shoji doors, low ceilings, and tatami floors.

Folded Roof House / ISHIZAKI ARCHITECTS

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

This residence is located in a residential area of Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City. Low-rise houses and a three-story office building, with an elementary school across the road to the south, surround the site. The plan places an L-shaped building at the site's center, with a parking lot facing the southern road and a garden to the north. A large roof spanning both interior and exterior spaces was designed to envelop the entire site, aiming to create expansive and deep spatial qualities. The garden functions as an open "blank space" accessible to the neighborhood, guiding light and wind toward the surrounding homes.

Tsunami Evacuation Complex: Terrasse Orange Toi / Imai Laboratory, IIS, U Tokyo + Nippon Koei Urban Space

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Terrasse Orange Toi project in Toi, Izu City, is designed as the first building in Japan to fully integrate tsunami disaster prevention and tourism functions. Toi is a traditional hot spring town, rich in Japanese landscape, characterized by its pine groves. Though bustling with tourists during the beach season, the town faces the significant risk of a 10-meter tsunami reaching its shores in just six minutes following a Nankai megathrust earthquake. However, after much discussion, the local community decided not to build large-scale seawalls that would spoil the scenic beauty of Suruga Bay, unlike other areas. Instead, they decided to protect the area by declaring Toi a Tsunami Disaster Special Caution Zone, the only such zone in Japan, and building tsunami evacuation towers.

House M / Ayami Takada Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:00:00 +0000

The site at the corner of an urbanization control area has no neighboring buildings next to it, and the expanse of space of the surrounding roads and fields gives the impression of occupied space, even though the ownership is different, and in fact, the space is used in an expansive manner. Although the existing building was relatively new, there were many areas that needed to be improved in terms of specifications and layout, and since the client wished to change their residence, we planned to create a completely different environment through expansion and renovation rather than rebuilding.

AQO Office / HYBE Design Team + TEKI Design

Hana Abdel — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The client was looking to expand their business and office space with construction in the community. How should the office be in relation to the community? We worked on this project with this in mind.

Pergola / Takayuki Kuzushima and Associates

Hana Abdel — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Life and forms that blend in with nature. The project site is surrounded by a mountain with large undulations and is rich in nature. The site is lined with impressive trees such as plum trees, sarsaparilla, and maple trees. The owner planned to spend weekends here, and in the future, he would like to move here to run a farm. They wanted to make minor improvements to the existing main house, demolish several shacks along the cliff, and build a new shack (agricultural warehouse).

House in Nishichiyoda / Seiichi Yamada and Associates

Hana Abdel — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The plan is to build a private residence in a residential area in the district leading to Sunpu Castle in the center of Shizuoka City. A stream used to transport materials when the castle was built flows nearby, leaving the countryside where the frog crow. With the respect to traditional Japanese houses, we are trying to build Japanese houses in the future without falling into nostalgia by renewing styles and traditions starting from openness and depth.

Castle House / Tezuka Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Fuji and the terrace - Mt. Fuji can be seen from every corner of Shizuoka. Every Japanese person has a longing for the barren mountain, which is nothing more than a pile of pumice erupting from beneath the earth’s surface. There is no doubt that the view of Mt. Fuji continues to be a luxury for Japanese people living east of the Tenryu River. The faint sound of running water, which is used for agriculture, could be heard on site. An ample of rented farms are also located towards the direction of Mt.Fuji.

A House in Shimoaojima / Mizuno Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0000

It is an architect’s own house for a couple in their 40s and their two children. Within a 30 minutes’ walk from Fujieda Station of the Tokaido Line, the project site is right above the former embankment called “sengan-zutsumi” built in the early Edo period to protect the region from the floods of the Oi River.

CODO /Suzuyo Head Office / Shuhei Goto Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:00:00 +0000

This office was designed as a prototype for offices in a new era of innovation based on the idea that today's office space needs some room for flexible renewal and updates initiated by employees themselves. We decided to transform the existing lecture hall that had been originally used for in-house events into a space capable of accommodating multiple activities including working, meeting, dining, holding events and more. Our idea was to create a space allowing people to circulate freely and meeting various purposes by utilizing the existing space in all directions and stacking box-like steps in a staggered manner along the periphery of the room, while leaving a wide open space in the center.

BIG Designs Toyota Woven City, the World’s First Urban Incubator

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:30:00 +0000

BIG unveiled its latest intervention, the Toyota Woven City, the company's first venture in Japan. Nestled at the foothills of Mt. Fuji, the project, in collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation, is the world’s first urban incubator pushing forward the development and progress of mobility.

gré Square House / suzuki architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000

This combined home and business sits on the skirts of Nihondaira, a hilly area just outside central Shizuoka City. The neighborhood is a mixture of large old farmhouses, tea fields, and new housing developments, with small shops nestled into the laid-back surroundings.The streets curve slightly as they climb gently toward the hills as if they were built on top of the old paths between fields.They lead, too, to openings where Mt. Fuji suddenly comes into view. It is in just such a spot that this house is located.

Renovation in Shizuoka / Shuhei Goto Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0000

It is a project that converts office and apartment building over 40 years into single family house. The site is located in a residential area close to central Shizuoka city.In the area,it is difficult to predict the future environment.Because a lot of houses are rebuilding due to aging.So we attempted to create a depth between the private room and the city.

Court House / KOIZUMISEKKEI

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:00:00 +0000

For this house project, we’ve tried to create a new relation between indoor basketball court and living house. The layout arrangement of this house is inspired by typical gymnasium layouts, where we have the indoor basketball court planned in centre core space of the house, with rooms located on opposite sides of the court.

House in Shimokawahara / KOIZUMISEKKEI

Sabrina Leiva — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:00:00 +0000

The project area had the Abe-kawa river bed and row of cherry blossom trees on the north side with the majestic Mt. Fuji in full view beyond that.

Floating House / Shuhei Goto Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:00:00 +0000

A concept of this house is a "new openness" in densely built-up residential areas. The site is surrounded by the houses of neighbors, so the main theme of design is to form "a space excellent in privacy" and "an open space with brightness".

Nicoe Bus Stop / Suppose Design Office

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:00:14 +0000

The scenery that many people are waiting a bus with lifting umbrellas. Some times we feel that it is very interesting if we saw the scenery from the other side. Each people has different umbrellas for size and type, and also they hold them in different ways.

Izukougen House / Atelier Shinya Miura

Javier Gaete — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This residential project for a couple who live in forest resort area near the ocean in the Izu peninsula area, Japan.