PAL International School@TUFS

Tokyo, Japan, 2022

An international school which provides nursery and after school program designed on the campus of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. T...

Drawer Balcony House

Tokyo, Japan, 2022

The balcony is protruded toward the front road, creating a garden-like space in the air. It’s a 6.5-tatami mat or 12 sqm space with priv...

Tsukuigaoka Kindergarten

Kanagawa, Japan, 2022

This kindergarten, which opened in 1979, is located on a hill in the Tsukui district of Sagamihara City, a commuter town of Tokyo. It has...

House with a Road Around

Chiba, Japan, 2021

House with a wrap-around road. The land in a suburb of Chiba city is large enough for a house, approx. 500 sqm, but frontal road which i...

New Factory of Minami Foods

Iwate, Japan, 2021

This is a new factory of Minami Foods which produces “yuba” (bean curd skin) in a marginal village which is in danger of disappearing due...

House Connected by Courtyard

Tokyo, Japan, 2020

A house with 9 jo (approx. 30 m2) courtyard surrounded by three-story walls with large fixed windows. The courtyard provides visual conti...

Tokyo Diagonal Tower

Tokyo, Japan, 2019

A tower residential building within 15-minutes’ walk from Tokyo Tower. As the site is compact and its frontal road being roughly 5m, the ...

Seiwa Kindergarten

Tokyo, Japan, 2019

Rebuilding project of a kindergarten located at a corner of huge apartment complex developed in late 1960s. Yamazaki apartment complex, ...

Small Pond

Tokyo, Japan, 2019

Kamimachi SIZEN-NO-KUNI Day Care Center “small pond” is an affiliate of Day Care Center “small village” completed in 2014 by the same cli...

E-2

Tokyo, Japan, 2018

E-2 is a project of two-story duplex apartment with open roof garden. The owner of E-2 is the same as “A-1” which was completed in 2016 i...

Continuing House

Kanagawa, Japan, 2017

Childhood home of the wife of the client is a combination of Japanese and western style house built in the beginning of Showa era which s...

Machida Shizen Kindergarten Building Q

Tokyo, Japan, 2017

Building Q is the work in the eighth phase of extension work of Machida Shizen (nature in Japanese) Kindergarten which started in 2003. ...

32.4°House

Kanagawa, Japan, 2017

A largest possible square floor plan was first drawn within the almost square lot of the house. Then a slightly smaller square plan was ...

E-1

Tokyo, Japan, 2016

A long three-story flat which consists of 6 dwelling units, 3 studios and 3 duplexes, stands along private passage diverged from the str...

Village on the Building

Tokyo, Japan, 2016

Office building project in Central Tokyo In Central Tokyo, where the land price is high and building restrictions are severe, the frame...

TRAYS

Kanagawa, Japan, 2015

Located close to Sagamihara station, approx. 40 min. from central Tokyo, “TRAYS”, a two-story apartment of 12 residential units stands in...

Small Village

Tokyo, Japan, 2014

A small village-like nursery where people of different cultures and generations get together. Seven buildings that stand on wooded hills...

Arch Wall House

Tokyo, Japan, 2014

A pair of houses stand on the sides of a slope, stretching walls over the slope in between in arch shape. The house on the left is a one-...

Roadside House

Niigata, Japan, 2014

A house was built with a big roof and a wide opening to a private road branched from the frontal road. The private road is paved with as...

House Snapped

Saitama, Japan, 2012

Two buildings, large and small, stand on L-shape plot adjoining at the corner. The form of the two buildings comes is as if one building ...

XYYX Apartment (STELLA)

Tokyo, Japan, 2011

4-story housing complex constructed with combination of two types of housing unit. When designing a housing complex, it is a typical for...

Dual Channel House

Tokyo, Japan, 2009

This is a tunnel-like house with living rooms at the east and west end. The household of the client consists of three, a husband who is ...

A House Made of Two

Kanagawa, Japan, 2009

This is a project of one family living in two houses built slightly apart from one another. One great volume of a house which covers the...