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PAL International School@TUFS / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000

An international school that provides a nursery and after-school program designed on the campus of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The site was designated at the end of a tree-lined avenue extending from the university’s central plaza. It was a hill-like place with a height difference of about 2 meters, and I was told that the hill was made of leftover soil that had been piled up when the student dormitory next to it was built. The site was segregated by a surrounding chain link fence, and it seemed detached from the entire campus as being located at the far end, where weeds grow so thick that you might hesitate to enter in the summer. There was a cut in the center that divided the hill into two, and a smoking area was set up at the back, probably because it was out of sight from the surrounding area.

Drawer Balcony House / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The balcony protrudes toward the front road, creating a garden-like space in the air. It’s a 6.5-tatami mat or 12 sqm space with privacy and security in mind, where you can use in many ways such as enjoy outdoor dining, place pots of plants, drink beer in the evening breeze, or pull out a chair and read a book on a sunny day. The owner’s beloved car fits nicely under the balcony.

Tsukuigaoka Kindergarten / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

This kindergarten opened in 1979 and is located on a hill in the Tsukui district of Sagamihara City, a commuter town of Tokyo. It has accepted many children over the years and has become a household name in the local community. As the existing kindergarten building started to have various issues due to aging and having gone through a series of expansions and renovations, it was decided to build a new one as part of the future-oriented strategy. The Tsukui district is the largest in Sagamihara City, with many rivers and lakes surrounded by mountains and low population density. Since many kindergarten children use the shuttle bus, I tried driving those routes, but the area covered was too large to go around in a matter of an hour. There is a bus route set up just to pick up one child waiting in the pickup point, which seems too much but understandable considering the fact that houses are too far apart for children to see each other and that many children wish to have kindergarten shuttle bus to see many friends there.

House Connected by Courtyard / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:00:00 +0000

A house with 9 jo (approx. 30 m2) courtyard surrounded by three-story walls with large fixed windows. The courtyard provides visual continuity to rooms through glass windows and the family to feel presence of each other sterically.

Seiwa Kindergarten / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Rebuilding project of a kindergarten located at a corner of huge apartment complex developed in late 1960s. Yamazaki apartment complex, whose residents Seiwa Kindergarten was built for, is one of the largest apartment complexes developed by the former Japan Housing Corporation (public corporation), currently Urban Renaissance Agency, among many apartment complexes in suburban Tokyo. The total housing unit number is approximately 3,900 and at its peak, more than 10,000 people lived in the complex.

"small pond" Nursery / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Kamimachi SIZEN-NO-KUNI Day Care Center “small pond” is an affiliate of Day Care Center “small village” completed in 2014 by the same client. “small village” was designed to serve as a future small village where people of various generation and culture gather and mingle in the context of a local community in Tadao, Machida city, a suburban area in western Tokyo.

Continuing House / Naf Architect & Design

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:00:00 +0000

Childhood home of the wife of the client is a combination of Japanese and western style house built in the beginning of Showa era which stands on a hill about 15-minute’s walk from Kamakura station, historic town and tourist destination. It is located on slope of a hill looking down garden in east, verdant environment where wild squirrels run about in trees and flowers. Becoming decrepit 90 years after the construction, the house once faced difficulty in maintaining and surviving with imminent issues of inheritance.

32.4°House / Naf Architect & Design

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A largest possible square floor plan was first drawn within the almost square lot of the house. Then a slightly smaller square plan was drawn inside the outer square, then it was rotated around the center of the square clock-wise by 32.4 degrees creating four right triangles inside the outer square; these are the elements which constitute the house, outer square, inner square and four right triangles in-between.

Village on the Building / Naf Architect & Design

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000

Office building project in Central Tokyo.

E-1 / Naf Architect & Design

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

A long three-story flat which consists of 6 dwelling units, 3 studios and 3 duplexes, stands along private passage diverged from the street in front of the premises. Behind the entrance doors of the flat is White Layer, long and thin space whose entire surface is painted in white. Behind the White Layer is living space such as kitchen, dining and living room.

TRAYS / Naf Architect & Design

Florencia Mena — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Located close to Sagamihara station, approx. 40 min. from central Tokyo, “TRAYS”, a two-story apartment of 12 residential units stands in suburb residential area mixed with large apartment complexes and detached houses. Being designed within the framework of two-story wooden apartment building in architectural regulations, “TRAYS” materializes a quality comfort of privacy and space in living by introducing the concept of “TRAY”, a residential unit complete with dwelling unit, balcony, and porch as a detached house. “TRAY”s are stacked on top and aligned to form an apartment building.

Roadside House / Naf Architect & Design

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:00:00 +0000

A house was built with a big roof and a wide opening to a private road branched from the frontal road.

Half & Half House / naf architect & design

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:00:20 +0000

Arch Wall House / Naf Architect & Design

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:00:23 +0000

A pair of houses stand on the sides of a slope, stretching walls over the slope in between in arch shape. The house on the left is a one-story building (A) for a woman living alone, and on the right is a two-story building (B) for a couple + child household. Three generations are living in the pair of houses, grandmother (A), daughter's couple and grandchild (B).

Switch Box in House / Naf Architect & Design

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is a total interior renovation project of an existing house, installing a box made of deck lumber in the middle of the house.

XYYX Apartment / Naf Architect & Design

Jonathan Alarcón — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

When designing a housing complex, it is a typical formula to put all the housing units under the same conditions as much as possible. However, in this project, this formula applied only to units on the second and third floor. A passage which needed to be paved on the side of the building reduced the floor area of units on the first floor and restriction of daylight made it impossible to make bedroom or living room. Diagonal limit on the fourth floor reduced the volume of the building, thus increased dead space, and made it impossible to extend exterior stairs.

3way House / naf architect & design

Jonathan Alarcón — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mecenat Art Museum / Naf Architect & Design

Fabian Cifuentes — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000