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Tull Weekend Home / Rei Mitsui Architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend retreat is set within a mountain forest, designed as a grounded place of dwelling immersed in nature. Typically, mountain vacation homes are elevated on slopes to offer stunning views, but through dialogues with the client, it became evident that being close to the ground, without detachment from nature, was more important than floating for the view.

YMK House / Takeshi Hirobe Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

This residence was designed for a client who relocated from the city to a rural highland area with the intention to work remotely. The site is characterized by a gentle slope that runs from the west side, which faces a road, to the east before dropping sharply. A small stream flows below, forming a modest valley. As a result, there is a significant distance between the residence and the nearest house, located across the valley, and the view on this side is marked by trees that cascade down the slope in a dense, layered arrangement. To make the most of these surroundings, the southeast corner of the residence was designed to accommodate a large picture window.

Three Roofs Timber Hall / OOTT

Valeria Silva — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:00:00 +0000

This project is a hall set quietly within the forest of Karuizawa, a renowned summer retreat. The facility is the result of a project that has been cultivated collaboratively with the client and contractor over a period of approximately ten years.

Kokeniwa House / Cell Space Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The planned site is an established villa district in Karuizawa that has long cherished and maintained its moss gardens. Broadleaf trees like konara and mizunara spread their branches, forming a canopy overhead. Beneath the dappled sunlight, moss layers upon moss have been cultivated through continuous human care—raking fallen leaves and meticulous weeding—weaving a pristine, plush natural carpet.

Ninefold Roof / T2P Architects Office

Valeria Silva — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

On a site sloping down to a valley on Mt. Happu in Karuizawa, we planned a villa for four families, aiming to create a place where they can enjoy the rich nature surrounded by a forest with a view of a stream. The architecture was designed to float lightly above the ground on an independent foundation to correspond to the terrain, and to be a group of small volumes with a roof that slopes down to create a quiet appearance with minimal impact on the site.

Block Wall House / nendo

Hana Abdel — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000

A private residence in Karuizawa, Nagano. Situated along the road lies the distinctive triangular property extending 110m in length. A creative solution was essential in securing privacy from passing traffic and pedestrians while acting as a foil for basking in the natural surroundings.

Cabin in the Woods / K+S Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The site is surrounded by forests at the foot of the magnificent Mt.Asama. Looking for a place to enjoy the vitality of nature, we decided to design a small villa in this rich forest.

A Home Around The Forest / YSLA Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

A “Home Around the Forest” is a weekend house in Karuizawa, Japan, for a couple with two children living in central Tokyo. The family was familiar with the area, and they stayed for many holidays in hotels nearby. Finally, they decided that they wanted their own hotel room in the forest, a 70sqm suite for a family of five to make the most of their holidays.

Places in Karuizawa Villa / Takahiro Endo Architects Office

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

A “place” to receive experiences - This is a plan to rebuild a villa for 14 people in four families. The owner's family had owned a villa in this area for many years and had vast experience. The site is in a vast forest of chestnut, fir, and dogwood trees, and the neighboring houses cannot be seen. In the summer, they cooled watermelons in the stream at the bottom of the valley, and in the fall, they went out into the forest to pick chestnuts and the way the owners spent their time was to learn from what they saw.

Kyukaruizawa Club Villa / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This is the first of a series of ready-built holiday villas for sale, planned by Naruse Inokuma Architects with Kyukaruizawa Club, an organization that manages an area of holiday homes in Karuizawa.

House in Karuizawa / Satoru Ito Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The planned site is a villa area in Karuizawa that was developed about 50 years ago. Surrounded by trees, each lot is approximately 1,000 m2, and the building-to-land ratio is 20%. The houses are scattered at a good distance from each other with the setback from the boundary of the site, which is unique to Karuizawa.

Four Leaves Villa / KIAS

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 14 May 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The villa is located in a forest in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture of Japan. The privately owned villa is designed to accommodate the owners and their friends in the rich natural environment at a mountain retreat 150 kilometers away from Tokyo.

Gradation in the Forest House / Kotoaki Asano Architect & Associates

Andreas Luco — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 01:00:00 +0000

“Gradation in the Forest” is a summer house in a forest. In this area, the formation of the beautiful scenery by the regulations is advanced. The forest is composed of Japanese larch trees with straight vertical silhouettes, and the houses stand calmly and sparsely in the forest. This house, “Gradation in the Forest”, is part of a collection of small spaces, as if the house might melt into the environment of the woods. There are no big towns within walking distance and residents have more time to spend in the house. So, various spaces were prepared in order to make the living environment rich.

Shishi-Iwa House / Shigeru Ban Architects

María Francisca González — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Shishi-Iwa House is a 10-room boutique resort designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Developed by HDHP GK, a social enterprise sponsored by HDH Capital Management, Shishi-Iwa House is a restorative retreat that reinforces the relationship between nature, architecture and human connection.

Kashino Residence / Kidosaki Architects Studio

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:00:00 +0000

The premise is located at Karuizawa Minamihara. The client hoped a single-story wooden building as a second house to coexist with the surrounding richly green natural blessings.

Yokouchi Residence / Kidosaki Architects Studio

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000

The site surrounded by the leafy woods close to the golf course in Minamigaoka Karuizawa, was planned to have its building lower than treetops of the woods to coexist with neighboring buildings.

Picchio Visitors Center & Ice Rink / Klein Dytham architecture + studio on site

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Picchio Visitors Centre and Ice Rink is located in the foothills of Mount Asama, an active volcano. This area of Japan, known as Karuizawa, is famous for its hot springs, cool temperatures in the summer months, red leaves in autumn and snow in the winter, making it the perfect weekend retreat from Tokyo, which is only 90 minutes away by bullet train. This project, a structure that can act as a skating clubhouse in winter and a nature centre in the summer, was a collaboration between Klein Dytham architecture and Japanese landscape design firm Studio on Site.

Karuizawa Tunnel / O. F. D. A.

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 22:00:00 +0000

This is a vacation home project in Karuizawa. The project site sits on the south of Karuizawa train station, its north side borders on a local street, and the other sides are bounded by the neighbors’ properties. Before the project started, there was a good view of a neighbor’s villa to the east. A villa in the south was almost hidden behind the trees. No building had yet been built on the west side. An important request from the client was to keep the surrounding buildings out of sight from his home as much as possible. After examinations of numerous alternative designs, the finished building has a megaphone shape, with its opening facing toward the south.