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Toga House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The site is located in Nishi ward, Niigata city; atop the Niigata sand dune range, formed along the coast around 1700 years ago. The terrain of this region has height modulations of about 30m and the area has high-density residential neighborhoods with narrow roadways while also having its antithesis of large, expansive grasslands in the outskirts.

YNS Yamaikarashi Nursery School / Takeru Shoji Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:00:00 +0000

The Center for Early Childhood Education and Care (nursery school) aims to achieve the principles of engaging “naturally with nature”. Located at the end of a winding pathway atop of a sand dune, this single-story wooden building provides a diverse base for children filled with characterful rooms and recesses. The "construction of a large childcare environment" that extends beyond the nursery rooms, the building, and the nursery yard to the surrounding area as a single continuum, and the "establishment of a mutually watchful relationship” in which the whole village is a part of there for the children's learning and play, and while the children revitalize the village. That is what was aimed for.

SDC Dental Clinic / Takeru Shoji Architects

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:00:00 +0000

The site is in Akiba town, Tsubame city, Niigata prefecture. We designed a clinic that is more than just a dental clinic, it is a daycare center, a bookstore and a place to enjoyably spend time, just ‘like a park’. Where a typical dental clinic is not a place to linger, this dental clinic encourages patients to come to the clinic for more than just their appointment, it gives them abundant ways of leisurely spending their time before and after their appointment. All occupants of the clinic are encouraged to spend their time ‘as they please’ enjoying the bookstore or daycare center. This gives way to a new type of dental clinic, which is ‘a place to stay’, ‘come again’ and comfortably spend time.

Hara House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hara house is located in the agricultural village in Nagaoka city, Niigata prefecture. Giving consideration to the functions onsite, such as parents' house, storage areas, and private rooms; most functions that are required in a fully self-reliant house were already present on site. Our design direction was to create a building that revitalizes the structures already present on site and have the potential to adapt to new functions as the need or mood arises. We started our design by conceptualizing a small building as an ‘incomplete’ remote extension of the main house. The building is not fully self-sufficient and thus draws from its setting and relies on the surrounding buildings to fully function and even engages the village to create a thriving community.

Shiro House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:00:00 +0000

The site is located in the dense residential area of Narayama, Akita city, facing a row of a thousand cherry trees lining the bank of the Taihei River. The house is designed for a couple and their child on a small land of 92.5 msq, located at the fork of a road.
What was required from the design: A house with the ability to open out to its the surroundings, despite the harsh Akita snow, and enjoy the view of the cherry blossom trees lining the Taihei River from the comfort of the house.

M House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Located in the mountain basin of Uonuma, Japan; the city does a complete turnaround from warm humid summers to snow covered winters. Here the temperature can reach up to 30 degree celcius in summers with over 80% humidity, while in winter the city might receive snowfall reaching up to 3 meters in height. Thus, a house built in this region needs to not only face the adversities of the land but also create an environment where the residents can thrive within their surroundings.

SA House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 21 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The project site is located in an old rural settlement near Kameda station in Konan ward, Niigata, Japan. The area has relatively recently started the process of renewal, transitioning into a dense residential area. As the development progresses, the form and the location of waterways and roads modify; generating ever-changing plot characteristics. Conventionally, a single estate would contain an assemblage of buildings such as the main manor, a granary, and farmland. And even though the roads of the village were narrow, each residence contained a buffer space; the link between daily living and the agricultural work.

SE House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 20 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The residential area where the site is located abuts a high-speed motorway in the Nishi ward of Niigata, Japan. The area was embanked with concrete retaining walls over 50 years ago and with age, these walls have weakened. Our design approach to alleviating the stresses incurred by these walls was to reduce the soil inside the site and convert the space into a courtyard. We chose to create a scenic space within these walls for the generation to come, who will inherit this site for the next 50 years.

Tomi House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Tomi House is located in Niigata Prefecture's Yuzawa, a town notable for its particularly heavy snowfall. Our first introduction to the site was in January of 2015. By the side of a neatly cleared road rose a mountain of snow four meters or so high. "This is it" we were told.
Our brief was to build an open and spacious house from which this family of four, inundated by snow for half the year, could comfortably enjoy the surrounding greenery and starry skies.

Wow! Sta. / Takeru Shoji Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 11 May 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Wow! Sta. is situated in Horinouchi, in the Central Ward of Niigata City - an area where the city center gradually begins to give way to the suburbs. The scenery lining the nearby main road is dominated by large commercial and retail buildings and their accompanying signage.

GO-BANG House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:00:00 +0000

In a region of heavy snowfall in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, the site is situated in the semi-industrial zone, more specifically, in a residential district in between factories and rice field. An elevated railway for The Jōetsu bullet train nearby as well as a broad road and a river for industrial use characterize slightly larger-scale landscape of the area. In contrast to a large plot of such a landscape, GO-BANG! House is required to be compact for parents and a child.

House to Catch the Tree / Takeru Shoji Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:00:00 +0000

Facing to the approach to a shrine, the site is found just beside gigantic 200-year-old Japanese zelkova trees. How can we bring this richness of surroundings as not only invaluable experience in the characteristic context but also richness of feelings into the daily life? That’s the starting point for the project.

OH! House / Takeru Shoji Architects

Diego Hernández — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In 2012, an enormous amount of housing lots, 540 subdivisions in 17.30 ha of the high-density housing development area, was opened up for sale in Niigata, Japan. Even though regulated by the green coverage ratio with plenty of parks and the setback distance from the next house, the site gave us the feeling of neither especially attractive nor reliable enough, namely identically blurred, but typically GOOD.

Courtyard House in Peach Garden / Takeru Shoji Architects

Diego Hernández — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is a private residence for a family of three built on a very particular landscape in the suburban Niigata, Japan. It is on a corner of peach garden in between a historical hinterland of farm villages along the Nakanokuchi River and a heavy traffic highway passing through the whole Niigata prefecture in front.