Shoeizan Sengyoji Temple

Toshima-ku Tokyo, Japan, 2018

Urban temple, cemetery

Peninsula House

Kanto, Japan, 2018

Building a land A building can be made by two kinds of actions. One is to build a frame on the land. Another is to work on the land itse...

Tonarino

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, 2017

Tenant building

House toward Tateyama

Toyama, Japan, 2016

The site, which overlooks the rice fields and the Tateyama peaks, is located in Toyama Prefecture of the Hokuriku region. Here, the cl...

Chiryu After School

Chiryu-city, Aichi, Japan, 2016

Terakoya for Natural Science Chiryu city in Aichi Prefecture was the 39th of the Fifty-three post-towns of Tokaido. The site is along...

Kasa

Shizuoka, Japan, 2016

Generous form of ‘an umbrella’ The site locates deep inside a small residential area within Tokai region. There is a forest park consi...

Roadside Station Mashiko

Mashiko, Tochigi, Japan, 2016

Architecture of Scenery Mashiko in Tochigi is well-known for the Mingei (folk crafts) movement, especially ceramic art. We had visited...

House in Araiyakushi

Tokyo, Japan, 2015

Embrace aspects of the city directly The surrounding of the site is a dense area of dwellings and commercial buildings. There are many l...

Log H

Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

A log house of steel My interest lies in the 'shinkabe' (plastered wall with exposed timber pillars) rather than the 'ookabe' (wall wh...

Salon in Kazo

Saitama, Japan, 2014

Two constructs, two compositions The site locates in the suburb of Kita-Kanto with population around 100,000. It is 5 minutes’ walk away...

Three Aoyama

Tokyo, Japan, 2013

The neutrality in the centre of Tokyo Usually, commercial buildings are expressed in a way that is far from neutral. Because they are ap...

Shift

Kantou, Japan, 2013

A Set up for Future There the site is, in the utmost periphery of suburban development area around Tokyo, which requires you almost 40 m...

Seto

Hiroshima, Japan, 2013

Public spaces of coastal city This area faces the Seto Inland Sea and has a configuration of vicinal hills plunging directly into the se...

Mother's House

Kanagawa, Japan, 2013

Architecture as a Verb I often tend to regard “architecture” as a “verb”. Speaking of “architecture”, it is, of course, usually used as...

Shore House

Manazuru, Kanagawa, Japan, 2013

Near the base of the Manazuru Peninsula, on a hilly topography that slopes toward the south, the site is located where the hill's inclina...

Valley

Shizuoka, Japan, 2011

A New Topology The site is long and narrow, running fifty meters north and south at four to five meters in width, switching back twice...

Yotsubako

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 2011

Turn the steering "commerce" to "urban space"  The site is near Centre-Kita station, in the centre of the emerging suburban district w...

Geo Metria

Kanagawa, Japan, 2011

Structure of the land On a brow of mountain range of Hakone, along the Odawara plain is a site. It’s sunny rolling hillside where onc...

Near House

Tokyo, Japan, 2010

Nearness -the other side of smallness- The site is located in a dense residential area in Tokyo where inhabitants are allotted only li...

Plus

Shizuoka, Japan, 2009

The mass of white The site locates on mountainside of Izu-san, where Pacific Ocean can be looked down on the south. The untouched w...

Tree House

Tokyo, Japan, 2009

Tree House This house for a couple is built in a residential area on a gentle hill in the northern Tokyo. The site is located at the t...

Rainy/Sunny

Tokyo, Japan, 2008

Architecture in the Climate The site is there in a residential area in Tokyo, dense with low-rise buildings, located a little bit west...

M3・KG

Tokyo, Japan, 2006

"dialogue" between the old and the new "substance" This is a house to be built in Tokyo, for a movie producer couple. This architectur...

Sakura

Tokyo, Japan, 2006

A home office for a couple planned in a residential neighborhood in Tokyo. The site is situated in an area where land costs are among the...

Secondary Landscape

Tokyo, Japan, 2004

From a bird's eye view, the alignment of roofs in Tokyo forms a "second landscape," "another surface. "Tokyo seems to emerge from virgin ...

Light-Light Shelter

Shizuoka, Japan, 2004

thin-walled architecture by apposing 4 HP curve shell units This is a delicatessen store built in poor ambient environment. Walls of n...