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Neko House / GENETO

Hana Abdel — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The inhabitants are a family of a mother, two children and two cats. We created the project on a small landlocked plot of land surrounded by buildings for a family to live there with cats. This is not the first human-plus-animal home project, but it was the first time a project has focused on cats.

Teahouses: Reinterpretation of Traditional Spaces

Clara Ott — Fri, 21 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Chashitsu, which is the Japanese term for a teahouse or tea room is a construction specifically designed for holding the Tea Ceremony, a traditional Japanese ritual in which the host prepares and serves tea for guests. Teahouses are usually small, intimate wooden buildings, where every detail is intended to help withdraw the individual from the material disturbances of the world.

YMT House / GENETO

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Walking down a Midosuji main street to the area with mid-to-high-rise residential and commercial buildings, suddenly a residential area filled densely with two storey wooden houses appeared. YMT-house is located in this area and measures just 49.5 square meter with 4m open width and 11m depth. In this limited condition, the client firstly required spacious living room for family of four, and then private rooms, enough storage, and the rooftop. To enrich and enhance life style while meeting all these requirements, the project focuses on the scale difference between each room.

Gable Roof House / Alphaville Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:00:00 +0000

We tried to interpret traditional gabled roofs in new way, because of Kyoto's townscape codes, within the framework of modern dwellings. As Laugier's "Primitive Hut, "gabled roofs hold a sort of fundamental appeal. However, we felt there was a problem in their strong axis of the direction and the fact that sunlight in the house is distributed unevenly. Additionally, we also saw an issue in dealing with the gable's outward thrust.

Juraku Ro / GENETO

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 26 May 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Located in Nishijin, Kyoto, JURAKU RO is a mixed-use project that includes both residential apartment and a hotel. As the name indicates, this building is located in the site of Old Castle ‘JURAKU DAI’. Street in this area used to be lined with Machiya (Kyoto’s Old townhouse) where traditional waving industry flourished. There are only a few old townhouses remain, and most of the recent apartment building in this area doesn’t seem to contribute to surrounding scenery while their façade is the only element to follow the landscape regulation. In this project, we considered how JURAKU RO could be part of surrounding neighbors, as well as contributing creating Kyoto’s landscape in the present day.

Changing the Event to Art / GENETO

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 09 May 2016 17:00:00 +0000

It’s the project of the new office of “a TOKYO” which manages ART FAIR TOKYO. It is located on the 4th floor (100m2) of the building facing the intersection in Ikura Minato-ku, Tokyo. We inserted three box spaces as a meeting room, a president room and a chief director room, then the residual space becomes a staff office space and a meeting space.

YOC Restaurant / GENETO

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:00:43 +0000

The site is located in between Kyoto and Nara, and this area was prospered as post station before.

KOU-AN Glass Tea House / Tokujin Yoshioka

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:00:09 +0000

“Tracing the origin of cultures peculiar to Japanese by reinterpreting the culture of tea ceremony”

L’Angolino / GENETO

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It's a self-built Italian restaurant being an opportunity to develop the local identity. In contrast to a big city, this town has a typical local city view. There are many chain stores and giant shopping stores in the roadside. The client is originally from here and he has a strong thought that his hometown should have an identity and it needs a place (restaurant) which can be a foothold for local people.

Jidaiya Arashiyama / GENETO

Victoria King — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The renovation of this historical costume makeover studio in Arashiyama, Kyoto, has been completed. A 40 year old building that seemed like a traditional old house has been renovated to a modern shop.

KD House / GENETO

Andrew Rosenberg — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

We did a renovation for a two-by-four construction unit house by Sekisui Heim that is located in a new residential area in Shiga prefecture. Although the site is relatively broad, the way it is built makes the site strangely narrow.