total floor area:79.11m2
constructor:Aziro Koumuten
completion:2013.1
total floor area:103m2
constructor:Izumi Kikaku
completion:2012.12
total floor area:164.16m2
constructor:Kikuhara
completion:2012.6
total floor area:142.92m2
constructor:Maekawa Kensetsu
completion:2012.3
total floor area:120.98m2
constructor:Izumi Kikaku
completion:2012.2
A house with a bridge connecting the living room to the passage reaching the top of the small mountain.
total floor area:280.03m2
constructor:Eiger Sangyo
completion:2012.2
total floor area:155.71m2
constructor:Maekawa Kensetsu
completion:2011.3
total floor area:234.15m2
constructor:Matsumura Gumi
completion:2010.06
A tray floating on the top of the hill in a residential area.
The living area is shaped as a gate to look out on to two big cities, Shinjyuku and Yokohama, on both sides of the hill.
total floor area:187.09m2
constructor:KIKUSHIMA
completion:2010.12
Double decker floating in a rice paddy. Most part of the building is outside.
Only 85 sqm is enclosed while the deck is 190 sqm.
Designed to hang swings, hammocks, tents in order to enjoy outdoor life.
total floor area:246.42m2
constructor:NIITSU GUMI
completion:2010.11
total floor area:80.89m2
constructor:Izumi Kikaku
completion:2010.5
A house over looking Pacific Ocean, Fuji Mountain, and Kamakura Mountains.
The Living room is rapped around with a ring Balcony as a stern of 17 th
centry battle ship. The barcony is acting as a intermediate space to control
the rain and privacy in order to keep the windows open.
total floor area:117.17m2
constructor:Kikushima
completion:2010.6
total floor area:91.36m2
constructor:Eiger Sangyo
completion:2009.12
total floor area:153.54m2
constructor:Nakayama Koumuten
completion:2009.5
total floor area:105.36m2
constructor:NIITSU GUMI
completion:2009.5
House inhabited by ascending to the rooftop and gazing
out at the sea.
total floor area:103.08m2
constructor:TOSHO KENSETSU
completion:2007.12
Atelier and house furnished with large eaves.
It looks down on a beautiful bay in Ushimado.
The personality of the minimalist owner has been reflected.
total floor area:151.80m2
constructor:Fujiki Koumuten
completion:2007
This is a house with an S-shaped cross-section, built on a long and thin site cutting across a small hill.
The composition absorbs the deep greenery of the hill.
total floor area:128.62m2
constructor:Senda Koumuten
completion:2007
This is a townhouse 3m wide and 17 m deep. The living room has a 4.8m high ceiling.
It is a modern townhouse in which every window can be opened for good ventilation.
total floor areaF132.94m2
constructor:Izumi Kikaku
completion:2007
House of a cloister without any column.
The courtyard is defined as the indipendent room yet to be still the extension of internal space.
total floor areaF148.33m2
constructor:Kenrokutochitatemono Corporation
completion:2007
A house contained by a extended canopy.
total floor area:85.94m2
constructor:Hanami Kensetsu
completion:2007
A house with high courtyard walls, framing only the sky.
total floor area:138.32m2
constructor:Aoki Koumuten
completion:2006
This is a house located 5m from the Inland Sea. The torii gate of Itsukushima Shrine floats out in front of the large opening. The floor has a stepping shape so as to make the sea visible from every space. The big door is closed during typhoons.
total floor area:118.20m2
constructor:Johane Haus
compleion:2006
House in which light streams down from a ceiling point seven meters high.
total floor area:109.30m2
constructor:Building and Services HANAMI
completion:2006
This is a house in which the floor of the second level is raised to the maximum height allowable, and can be opened up a full 360 degrees. There are absolutely no walls on the second level.
total floor area:92.42m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2006
This is a house open in two directions, facing toward a deck that extends in the southwest direction. There is no column in the corner.
total floor area:119.57m2
constructor:Taisho Construction. co., itd.
completion:2006
The house is located at the bottom of a hill.
The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space.
total floor area:283.58m2
constructor:Kajima Corporation, Hiroshima
completion:2005
Responding to its dense residential location, this compact house has only a bathroom on its top floor. Meanwhile, the middle level enjoys maximum ceiling heights and light flooding through a large skylight. The ground level fully opens to a small courtyard.
total floor area:136.55m2
constructor:Maekawa Kensetsu
completion:2004
This large floating house is deceptively simple. In fact, the house controls its own environment. All the windows are positioned to allow light and breezes into the dwelling in ways which optimize comfort.
total floor area:157.77m2
constructor:Maekawa Kensetsu
completion:2004
Located in an urban environment alongside a park, this tiny house accommodates a single function in each room. The large window facing the park opens fully and operates electronically.
total floor area:95.00m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2004
Designed to observe frequent fireworks displays on the sea.
total floor area:176.78m2
constructor:Satohide
completion:2004
This cottage floats in the forest, its roof tilted to optimise views of the treetops.
total floor area:80.74m2
constructor:Kitano
completion:2004
The valley clips the corner off the rectilinear plan of this house.
total floor area:94.71m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2004
A house with five courtyards. Each courtyard is characterized with different feature corresponding to a space.
total floor area:220.91m2
constructor:Sato-hide
completion:2004
A house open to the three sides. Upper floor is held with a wall only one side.
total floor area:101.93m2
constructor:katsura-koumuten
completion:2004
The site is surrounded by other houses on four sides. Privacy is ensured by the depth of the courtyard.
total floor area:103.12‡u
constructor:Isoda
completion:2003
The long and narrow house is placed to be facing the motherfs house over the courtyard. The whole house becomes as a porch by opening 16 meters of the glass sliding doors.
total floor area:74.48m2
constructor:nitadori-koumuten
completion:2003
A simple rectangular box. A core lightly rests in the center. The skylight lies in between the ceilings.
total floor area:89.27m2
constructor:Misawaya-Kensetsu
completion:2003
Stretched on a narrow site, the saw-shaped roof captures the southern light with parallel ceiling apertures.
total floor area:181.2m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2002
A north-facing house surrounded by houses on three sides. One-room space with a big skylight along the roofline. The north folding doors open completely.
total floor area:119.98m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2003
With a 4m-wide balcony, the spaces extend out into the open, allowing open windows even when there is rain.
total floor area:116.32m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2002
Situated in a dense residential neighborhood, the thin wall house maximizes interior volume with thin walls and the maximum roof pitch allowed. The structure is composed of only 9 mm steel plates and 100 X 100 mm columns.
total floor area:217.51m2
constructor:Nichinan-Tekkou
completion:2002
The direction of the rafter is turned by 90 degrees in contrast with the typical method. With no beam above the "shoji", light fills the ceiling.
total floor area:44.74m2
constructor:Isoda
completion:2002
Designed for an animation director, the steps winding along the borders of the site link each story with the director's red, blue, yellow, and green images.
total floor area:156.43m2
constructor:Fukazawa corporarion
completion:2002
The house steps down the slope with terraced floors.
Every space opens to the Pacific Ocean.
total floor area:233.44m2
constructor:Daido Shonan Branch
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0111
completion:2001
A minimal house surrounded by houses in three directions within only one-meter distance. The skylight is only one direction with perfect privacy. The windows, opened toward equally to four sides, are placed at the height as the privacy is kept.
total floor area:74.08m2
constructor:Tezuka Architects
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0111CKenchiku Bunka 0208
completion:2002
Once opening the glass sliding doors,
the house a simple box with a huge opening on the ceiling.
There is no boundary between inside and outside.
total floor area:86.58m2
constructor:Daido Shonan Branch
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0111,Kenchiku Bunka 0112
completion:2001
The house supported only with a central core and a pair of extremely thin columns.
There is no wall on the ground floor level and the internal space are extending 360 degree out to the garden.
total floor area?F247.51m2
constructor:Matsumoto Corporation
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0111
completion:2001
The all spaces are designed to be balconies cantilevered out 3.6 meters.
total floor area:133.81m2
constructor:Daido Shonan Branch
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0111
completion:2001
The house with the roof with a table, chairs, a kitchen, a shower and a stove on the top.
Each skylight has a specific owner from the family members and designed to lean a ladder to climb up to the roof.
total floor area:96.89m2
constructor:Isoda
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0108,VA 0202,Architecture Review 0110,IN-EX 02 0203
completion:2001
The Megaphone shape house standing on top of the huge rock with the spectacular view to the Pacific Ocean.
The 6 m X 9 m window is equipped with external blinds, air curtain, 6 railed sliding doors to control the environment.
total floor area:157.18m2
constructor:Isoda
publication:Shinkenchiku 0103,GA Japan 0103,MONUMENT 0106
completion:2000
The re-understanding of the Japanese courtyard house.
Once opening the sliding doors, the boundary between the inside and the outsides disappears and the courtyard space extends out to the next courtyard to the next.
total floor area:99.05m2
constructor:Tokyo Tekkin Concrete
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 0011,AUSTRALIAN STYLE 0101
completion:2000
Light Gauge Steel House for the site where no crane is accessible.
Each steel members are designed to be carried by hand.
total floor area:139.11m2
constructor:Kikushima
publication:SD 9812,Shinkenchiku JT 9912
completion:1999
Looking down the Natural forest and pacific ocean.
Opening the glass sliding doors of the two sides completely, the space extends out onto the deck cantilevered out 4 meter above the forest.
total floor area:128.45m2
constructor : Kikushima
publication:Shinkenchiku JT 9911
completion:1999