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A House, Resident and Milk Delivery Service / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

A House is a renovation of a wooden house that had become an unauthorised structure due to r repeated extensions and alterations since it was constructed 100 years ago. The processes to bring this house back into compliance with the current building regulations and reapply for planning permission involved 1) removing the unauthorised extensions, 2) constructing a new foundation inside the existing structure for seismic reinforcement, and 3) applying fire-resistant wall cladding. The renovation of A House can be used as a case study to explore the possibilities for other wooden structures with similar conditions.

Tanabata House / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Andreas Luco — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Tanabata House is a small house (85.23 m2) designed for 4 family members a husband who is a university lecturer, his wife, and their 2 elementary school children. It is located in a residential area west of Tokyo called Musashino City. The city is rich in nature with various kinds of wide plants, trees, parks, and rivers. Tanabata House: a house with a terraced garden - Tanabata House is on a corner plot of a small junction that normally becomes waterlogged during a rainy season.

Fukuyama Higashi Police Station Ekimae KOBAN / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:00:00 +0000

“Fukuyama higashi police station Ekimae KOBAN” is a police box of Fukuyama higashi police station, located in front of Fukuyama Station, Fukuyama city, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Our proposal won the competition to design a new police box in front of the Station. According to Fukuyama Station Area Design Plan 2019, this area will be surrounded by high-rise buildings of offices and hotels. Therefore, our proposal was to design the police box at a human scale to reduce distances between spaces and people.

TAKAASHIROU House and Pastry Shop / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Hana Abdel — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Located in a nature-rich residential area of Tokyo, TAKAASHIROU is a three storey-building consisting of a pastry shop on the 1^st floor and residents from the 2^nd – 3^rd floors. This building is constructed along a slope of a cliff line and supported by tall wooden pillars with distinctive architectural elements. This is why this building was named TAKAASHIROU, which means tall pillars.

Jubako House / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Design of a stacked house‘Jubako house’is based on our concerning on the relationship between the house and surrounding neighborhood. Jubako: Japanese food stacked boxes, is a set of food containers which can be stacked to sort various kinds of food into each layer. We conceptualized Jubako to create space from series of boundary where perimeter of internal space can be linked with external space. Therefore, we carefully thought about dimension of the building, choices of material and sizes of openings.

Housenji Temple / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Clara Ott — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Housenji Temple plays an important role as a center of local community. Our concept was to enhance its spiritual place for the locals and at the same time create pleasant environment to city. For an existing building, we stabilized the structure with seismic retrofit system to resist earthquakes.

EN-House / Meguro Architecture Laboratory

Valentina Villa — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:00:00 +0000

Meguro Architecture Laboratory has completed an experimental residence that can be opened out liberally onto the town by reducing construction through renovation.