A modular unit becomes the basis for the design of this Seaside Hotel: An ISO Container is a format for transporting Architecture.

A new model relationship between the building and its natural environment.

The memory of the red light district is recalled through a game involving fluorescent light and paint.

Calligraphy and flower arrangement reinvented.

The design aspires to be autonomous and claims its own identity providing its inhabitants with a peaceful quiet ‘steady’ place.

The design concept is based on the traditional Japanese folded paper crane.

An unexpected brief required a house with a fifteen year life span; exactly the number of years the clients had left to live.

The architect not fond of the site’s surroundings, a garage and an old iron factory decided on an introvert design; balcony-like spaces are mirrored inwards looking towards the main spaces of the house.

A composition framing views of cluster high-rise buildings in Shinjuku.

A compact house that makes use of the half-floor difference in height between the front and back of the site.

Two houses, separating two generations within one volume.

A house designed like a one-room apartment using a semi transparent floor.

A space where the role of people and objects coexist or is interchanged.

The architect turned the façade into a feature. The glass wall was turned at an angle accommodating the entrance and providing shelter at the same time, differentiating it from the other shop fronts along the street.

The ever changing soft shadows of the indirect diffused light give the feeling that the space itself is alive in a continuous state of transition between light and darkness.

New research and development building.