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Earth Centric Design Lab / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This is the interior renovation for the new office of the Earth Centric Design Lab (ECD), a newly established subsidiary of TBWA HAKUHODO. The company regards the Earth as an important stakeholder and aims to shift the focus of all its designs from "human-centered" to "Earth-centered." Based on this concept, we carried out a super Earth-friendly interior renovation project that provides space and time for thinking about the Earth.

The Grave of Kamakura Yukinoshita Church / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This is a renovation project of the grave owned by the church. The site area is 30m2. On the ground level, wide and flat space is needed to perform funerals and so on and the underground existing space is used as a shared burial chamber where only certain workers will enter.

House in Byoubugaura / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 17 May 2020 17:00:00 +0000

A house with a basement and two floors above ground was planned in a residential area in Yokohama, which is characterized by rolling hills. The 60-square meter site is sandwiched by existing houses to the south and the north. On the east side, the site faces a 3m-tall retaining wall. In these ways, the site at first looked like it was buried by the surroundings.

Love2 House / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:00:00 +0000

I lived in “LOVE HOUSE” in Yokohama for 10 years.
I started to teach as a professor in Waseda University Art and Architecture School since 2015.There is about 40km distance from LOVE HOUSE to the university and it was so hard to commute for 3hours by train almost everyday.That’s the reason I decided to construct my second house,”LOVE2 HOUSE”.I got 31.41m2 lot in Tokyo and immediately started to design 2 stories house.

Shonan Christ Church / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0000

A protestant church is standing at a rich green residential area at a 10-minute walk from the Shonan beach. The meetinghouse of the 50-year old church became too small and it came to a decision that a new church would be constructed on a new site. People related to the church said, "We wish to have a chapel appropriate to give praise to the Lord. "The words of the Bible are read, and heard in service.

Nagoya Courthouse / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000

The site is located approximately 1 km west of Nagoya castle and in the neighborhood there are 2 story houses as well as high rise apartments over 10 stories high. Summer in Nagoya is very hot. When a downpour occurs water can rise over 50 cm above street level. Taking these matters into account we have designed a serene and comfortable house for a family of three (husband/wife and child).

Inside Out House / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:00:00 +0000

This is a project of a house for a married couple and two cats, located in Tokyo. The project had started based on the idea that humans and cats live in a same house, rather than cats living in a house designed for humans — and finally this idea brought out a concept: “a house inside which you feel being outside.”

Roomroom / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 17:00:00 +0000

This is a house for a hearing-impaired couple and two children with no impairment. The site is located in a dense residential area in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, and its two sides face narrow streets. Three generations lived in a main house built five years ago, but it became too small, so a second house on a plot next to it was designed.

Balcony House / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:00:00 +0000

A house built in the downtown of Tokyo. A couple and a child live. When I looked at the neighborhood, the window with low fence and the balcony were in every house, it was also a place and tool for communication with the town.

House in Kozukue / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Openness of space / Necessary space and Surplus space
This is a house for a Christian couple and a newborn baby. The client had two wishes for the house: A common room where the family, Christian friends and neighbors can learn the Bible together and the client can practice the organ for Sunday services and outdoor space where both the family and visitors can enjoy natural light and wind while keeping enough privacy.

House 119 / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:00:00 +0000

The cross-sectional and longitudinal aspects of scale

Love House / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Genesis of the Old Testament begins from the sentence "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Hoto Fudo / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Christopher Henry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This building is similar to the inside and outside house we previously featured. The project was planned on the site with Mt. Fuji rising closely in the south and the two sides facing the trunk roads. Takeshi Hosaka Architects wanted this building to take on the characteristics of mountains and clouds. It is made from soft geometry, which are not derived from the figures like quadrangles and circles. By continuously operating innumerable polygon mesh points, Takeshi Hosaka Architects have determined the shape that clears the conditions such as the consistency as shell construction and the undulations that ward off rainwater in spite of its free geometry. The RC shell with cubic surfaces creates such spaces as 530 sqm, 140 sqm of kitchens, and 50 sqm of rest rooms, in such a manner that it envelops and opens them.

Inside House & Outside House / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Christopher Henry — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This is a residence consisting of an inside house and outside house. It is also a proposal of architecture of a new relationship between internal and external. Because the site is an irregular shape, the planar shapes of the rooms in the two cubes of “inside house” and “outside house” are irregular shapes. In the two cubes, there are glass windows and wooden-board windows in the peripheries, and any room lets in light and wind from the windows and the inside house intermingles with outside house through windows.

Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Christopher Henry — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery is a complex of church school (2nd floor) and nursery (1st floor) administered by Protestant Christ church. The premises are located at a greenery area in Yokohama city surrounded by fields, parks and hills in the neighborhood. It has been planned in the open space such that places for children to stay are mixed into forest with rich natural environment.