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House in Saidera / Akio Isshiki Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The site is a flagpole-shaped lot located amid a mixture of traditional Japanese houses and contemporary developer-built homes. In designing a house for a family of five suited to this place, the image I had in mind was that of a traditional Japanese house. Timber framing is exposed through shinkabe construction (shinkabe: a traditional Japanese method in which columns and beams are expressed), resulting in a stripped-down appearance free of excess. At a time when construction costs continue to rise, I believe that reconsidering the wisdom embedded in traditional Japanese houses was a rational approach.

House in Akashi / Akio Isshiki Architects

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

When you hold a seashell to your ear, you hear the sound of the sea. I wonder who first said that? As a child, I found it strange that I could indeed hear something like waves crashing. I imagined the source of the sound deep within the spiral, or perhaps a hidden hole leading to a distant southern island. Seashells have a mysterious charm. Their iridescent interiors feel empty yet somehow full of sound, the scent of the sea, the memory of life, or even layers of time.

House in Hattori-tenjin / Akio Isshiki Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

The way children perceive space may be slightly different from how we adults perceive it. That's what I thought as I casually watched the client's daughters play with toys. Toy furniture could no longer fit inside the red-roofed house, so they gathered up the tables and refrigerators that were sticking out and arranged them on the flooring. Sometimes, it became a dining room under the blue sky or a study room where children came home from school and did their homework together. They also brought Lego blocks and other toys, and the improvised room continued to expand. It was a one-day house for a family drawn by children who cannot read blueprints.

House in Hayashisaki Matsue Beach / Akio Isshiki Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

A wooden house near the beach was renovated into the designer's residence and workplace, as well as a curry restaurant. What I was conscious of while designing this house was about "mixed". I proceeded with the design while paying attention to the various mixes surrounding this house, such as usage, culture and nationality, time and space, town and house, work and life. In designing, I thought that it would be possible to renew the mundane "multinational house" by understanding the roots and cultural background of my own once again and mixing the essence of foreign countries with traditional materials and techniques of this area.