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Kozakai Kifukan Community Center / C+A Coelacanth and Associates + Yasuyuki Ito

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This core community building in the Kozakai district of Toyokawa contains a community center, library, children’s center, and city hall branch office. The design was selected in a 2017 competition. The spatial appeal of a mixed-use buildings such as this comes largely from its handling of common areas. While individual spaces such as the meeting rooms, music studio, event hall, and kitchen are of course also important, it is the natural overflow of sounds, sights, and other hints of activity into the common areas that gives the facility as a whole its vibrancy.

Himitsujanai Kichi / Itsuki Matsumoto (Aichi Institute of Technology Graduate School) + Ehime Architecture and Design Office

Hana Abdel — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000

This is a project for which a 23-year old graduate student did the preliminary design and design development. It is a work of collaboration created with local young architects and artisans. Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture is a city known for Dogo Onsen. The area enjoys a mild climate thanks to the Seto Inland Sea, and with hot springs as a tourist resource, it is ranked as one of the most popular sightseeing destinations in Japan. Since 2014, art events have been held as part of the town revitalization strategy, and this facility was built for the 2019/ 2020 edition of the art project to provide a base for those activities. It is a small-scale, public architecture also used as a community hub.

Apartment MK / 1-1 Architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:00:00 +0000

The site is in Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture in Japan, and there are many apartments to the concentration of affiliated companies of major automobile manufacturers in the surrounding area. On the other hand, many green spaces and fields like farm left for development by the Green Land Law remain. The owner has lived in this area for many years and has long been a landowner who owns this site and many others.

Shinkoji Temple / Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:00:00 +0000

Plan for the temple’s main building to connect the sky and a town. The site is located in an old town in Minami-ku Nagoya city, where the traces of a shopping street still remained. Keeping the temple’s traditions in mind, we designed the temple aiming to construct a multipurpose space to attract people, and perform as a public space in the town.

Koshinokuni Museum of Literature / Yasuyuki Ito/CAn

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:00:00 +0000

The site for this project is situated by the River Matsu that centrally flows through the Toyama prefecture. The scheme seeks to regenerate the area by refurbishing an existing former-residence of prefectural governor and providing an extension for an exhibition block in order to create a literature museum that spreads and raise awareness of Etchu literature which has long been inherited from the Manyo period. Here, we have treated the existing building as a yashiki (Japanese traditional mansion) and the new exhibition extension as a kura (Japanese traditional warehouse) that interlink to each other, with niwa (translates to ‘garden’) that closely relate to the structures completing the configuration of new spatial relationship within the site. The yashiki will hold accommodations for administration, research labs, restaurant and tea rooms, which will provide services for the locals. The kura will act as the ‘museum’ block where exhibition rooms, repository and curator rooms will be located.

Kaze No Machi Miyabira / C+A Coelacanth and Associates + Met Architects

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

This is the elderly care facility located in Shobara City, Hiroshima. All the time, the client hopes that this facility can be a wooden warmly house which family and the surrounding residents can visit casually. There are many promenades, alleys and gardens opened to public inside this site.