Tachikawa ANNEX – Warehouse × House

Tokyo, Japan, 2021

Details between House and Warehouse The building is an annex to the main building we designed about 10 years ago as corporate headquarte...

Hat on the Ridge

Kanagawa, Japan, 2019

The house sits on a ridge of a hill in Kamakura, one of Japan’s ancient capitals . The site is covered in a typical soil of the area—sof...

Todoroki House

Tokyo, Japan, 2017

Gaps in the City - the house is built in a north-south elongated and distorted strip of land with the afterimage of uneven landscape with...

Akatsuka House

Tokyo, Japan, 2013

A large square roof shelters the semi-enclosed interior spaces of this home.

Naruse House

Tokyo, Japan, 2013

A multi-axis ranch house under a large gabled roof This single-story home sits at the junction of three roads in a housing development i...

Shirokane House

Tokyo, Japan, 2013

The site for this residence is surrounded on four sides by other buildings. Working within those conditions, the architects maximized the...

Okazaki House

Aichi, Japan, 2012

The interior floor levels in this residence are adjusted in response to the elevation of the fields and Japanese garden adjoining it. A s...

Yatsugatake Villa

Yamanashi, Japan, 2012

Situated in the foothills of Mt. Yatsugatake, this vacation home gently incorporates the natural environment around it. The fan-shaped de...

Fukasawa House

Tokyo, Japan, 2011

Wood architecture involves inherent limitations, such as the fact that spans cannot easily exceed a certain width, but those limitations ...

Pojagi House

Kanagawa, Japan, 2011

Traditional Korean patchwork panels called pojagi serve here as sliding doors in a modern take on the classic Japanese design concept of ...

Ogikubo House

Tokyo, Japan, 2010

In order to create a home that does not feel boxed in by its urban surroundings, the architects divided the volume into three boxes and a...

Tamaranzaka House

Tokyo, Japan, 2009

Due to Tokyo’s high land prices, plot sizes become reduced as a matter of necessity. What’s more, buildings often become even...

Tokyo Steel House

Tokyo, Japan, 2008

Because this project is located on a small lot with a narrow frontage (5m x 16m) in the center of Tokyo, it was important to find a way t...

Mejiro House

Tokyo, Japan, 2004

Basements are usually considered the part of the house where natural lighting is most difficult to attain; rooms located there tend to be...

Oji Timber Head Office "Catalog of Wood"

Tokyo, Japan, 2002

Oji Timber’s head office is located in Shinkiba, Tokyo’s historic timber industry district. Overlapping screens constructed from the many...