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Process5 Design of Osaka have completed the interior of this bridal shop in Himeji, Japan.
Called Bridal Magic, the store has changing rooms in the middle surrounded by mirrored panels.
Picture frames dotted over the mirrored surface either showcase accessories or reflect the rails of dresses arranged round the shop’s outer edge.
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Concept of dress shop Bridal Magic
“A circuit-style dress shop inlaid with frames”
Many people of all nationalities throng the main street that leads from JR Himeji Station to the World Heritage Site of Himeji Castle.
Dress shop “Bridal Magic” is located in a side street just off this main street and was planned as a related facility in anticipation of the wedding hall that will face on to the main street (opening in March 2011).
The floor plan was created so that fitting rooms are located in the middle of the space and reception, waiting and dress display spaces are arranged around these. All four walls surrounding the fitting rooms are mirrored and randomly inlaid with frames. Some of these frames simply contain mirrors but others contain displays of accessories, apertures, lighting equipment and handles for the fitting room doors.
This use of space surprises customers and creates an encounter with a stunning dress. This dress shop evokes the feelings of expectation and exaltation of the bride, who is the centre of attention, with respect to her wedding.
Project designer: TAO THONG VILLA Co Ltd. Hideki Kureha
Designer: PROCESS5 DESIGN. Ikuma Yoshizawa, Noriaki Takeda
Contractor: J.FRONT DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION Co Ltd. Yasukazu Miki, Tatsuya Nagaoka
Collaborator/lighting design: USHIO INC. Mariko Hayashi
Total area : 183.36㎡
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Here’s a house in Osaka, Japan, by Yoshihara McKee Architects of New York and Tokyo.
Called Minamikawa House, the residence has a sloping lawn that rises from street level to meet the living areas, which are suspended over walkways beneath either side of the house.
Rooms on the lower floor are organised in wooden, glass and concrete volumes, while the upper floor that contains bedrooms and bathrooms is more enclosed.
“The site is relatively bigger than many of the Japanese projects featured recently, and it afforded us the opportunity to play with landscape, changes in level, and a generally more intricate series of design moves,” says Marcello Pacheco of Yoshihara McKee Architects.
See also: Posen Loft by Yoshihara McKee Architects
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Although designed to harmonize comfortably with the other residences in this typical suburban landscape, the Minamigawa house is a departure from traditional Japanese home design.
Unlike its neighbors each of which presents a bland façade to the street with a formally defined house and garden hidden behind it this home merges indoor and outdoor spaces into a unified whole.
The garden climbs up from street level, penetrating the built form and pulling the eye beyond the structure’s surface to a planted terrace overlooking the street.
At the top of the incline, the primary living spaces within the open concrete and glass frame take advantage of the views to the garden and an adjacent park, while wood-clad boxes offer domestic warmth and privacy.
Flowing back and forth between house and garden, the design blurs the distinction between what is “inside” and what is “outside.”
The third floor, with more enclosed rooms well above eye and street level, offers added privacy.
Throughout, a palette of simple building materials enhances the unconventional design, while the balanced scale of all the elements contributes a quiet informality.
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Japanese studio Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates have completed this concrete family home in Hiroshima, Japan.
A concrete slab extends out of the side of the three-storey house at the rear, creating a narrow terrace.
A free-standing burgundy spiral staircase in the corner of the space connects all three floors and leads up to a landing with a floor made of wooden slats on the top level.
Exposed concrete features throughout the interior.
Large windows at the rear of the house bathe the interior with light.
Photographs are by Tomohiro Sakashita.
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This house is built in the residential area lined with the buildings which are a low-rise building to circumference adjacent to the park which is full of green.
2 stories did study, but chose 3 stories to own the garden in the south side among a rich connection of the outside space.
Mainly on the the second floor living that I joined together in direct stairs becoming two levels of colonnades from the entrance, a spiral staircase goes through a top and bottom floor.
The terrace which I pushed out and a screen by the aluminium sash wrap a place in the courtyard space of the form that is new in the vacant land that it was possible for on the site full the site that spread so that inside space protrudes.
I regard it as the wooden housing which hung the third floor floor with a steel frame to reduce building weight for 3 stories on the soft ground along the river.
The wooden floor inserted in a skeleton of the concrete of two levels of colonnades just shows the common joint which is constitution materials as makeup and forms a corridor in the shape of a drainboard.
Architect: YUTAKA YOSHIDA ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES
Location: Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Project area: 119.73sqm
Project year: 2010
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Here’s another house in Sendai, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates (see their Edge House in our earlier story) that features a pointy overhang.
The living areas are located on the first floor and lead out onto a terrace with sloping facade, which cantilevers over a car port below.
Slits in the enclosed terrace allow slight views out to the street.
A bedroom, storage and music room are all arranged on the ground floor around a central corridor that leads out onto a little courtyard.
A child’s bedroom is located at the rear of the house on the upper level, separated from the living room and kitchen by the courtyard.
Photographs are by Masao Nishikawa.
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This urban residence is located in a residential district in downtown Sendai. Constructed out of wood without the use of any pilotis or other supporting structures, the building features an upper floor that protrudes dramatically outward in order to ensure adequate parking space for two cars on a lot with restricted frontage.
The size of the windows and other openings on the closed facade of the building have been kept to an absolute minimum as a precaution against crime, as well as a privacy feature.
In contrast, the interior of the house, which centers on the internal courtyard, is an open, generous and well-lit expanse of space. The first floor houses several small, comfortable private spaces, such as a bedroom and audio room.
The second floor has been conceived as a single, continuous space filled with natural light, allowing unobstructed lines of sight and free-flowing ventilation.
The tatami-floored living room enjoys the “borrowed landscape” (shakkei) of maple trees in the courtyard, creating a tranquil atmosphere that allows the inhabitants to forget the fact that they are in the city.
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Light reflected by the louvers on the slanted facade help to create a bright interior. The louvers also serve to obstruct lines of sight into the house from the outside while allowing the residents clear, unobstructed views of the exterior from inside the building.
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The children’s room that straddles the central courtyard was designed in such a way as to separate it from the ﾒwombﾓ of the main building. The variety of scenery provided by each of these spaces is a particular perk of living in urban residences located in the heart of the city.
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The notion of the urban residential building can no longer be confined just to Tokyo: it has now become firmly established as a sensible, intelligent concept that can be applied to all cities.
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For modern urbanites, the lifestyles resulting from these small spaces offer them a more comfortable living environment than residences that are larger than necessary.
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Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates have completed a house in Sendai, Japan, with a balcony that cantilevers half over the enclosed courtyard and half over the footpath outside.
Called Edge, the house sits on a corner plot in a busy area.
The living areas open out to this courtyard, with a Japanese style room, storage and a further smaller courtyard at the back of the house all arranged on the ground floor.
Concrete steps lead from the walled courtyard up to a roof terrace on the first floor where the bedrooms are located.
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Photographs are by Masao Nishikawa.
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Located in the suburbs of Sendai, the site for this project was in the vicinity of two existing residential buildings designed by other architects. This house was therefore designed by taking into consideration how it would blend harmoniously into the surrounding area. The facade of the building was covered in concrete in order to provide the inhabitants with a sense of privacy, as well as to ensure that signs of life within the house were not visible from the outside.
The outer walls of the building made of reinforced concrete, externally insulated due to the cold northern climate, were also coated with a photocatalyst that gave them a white gleam.
Another distinctive feature of the house was the sleek and lightweight impression created by the sharp profile of the eaves and small, sleeve-like walls detached from the building proper – both designed in order to soften the heaviness of the reinforced concrete.
A central courtyard sits in front of the entrance to the house on the first floor, while another courtyard that adjoins the south side of the family room also connects to the outdoor deck, establishing a sense of continuity with the raised tatami-floored space. The use of unfinished concrete for the interior walls and ceilings gives the impression of a gleaming, black hardness in relation to the white facade, creating a contrast between the interior and exterior of the house.
Climbing the staircase to the second floor while gazing out at the maple trees in the central courtyard, a bedroom comes into view. Going up another short flight of steps takes you to the children’s room, bathroom, and a spacious balcony.
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By creating numerous intermediate zones that straddle the inside and outside of the house – a rooftop and balcony that provide opportunities for gardening, for instance – the inhabitants can enjoy their living environment all throughout the building.
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In addition to being a carefully considered response to sites that see a fair amount of pedestrian traffic, the courtyard house typology is also deployed in residential architecture as a way of creating a permanent sanctuary for nature in an urbanizing neighborhood.
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Japanese studio Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a weekend house in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, where two gabled structures are separated by a walled courtyard.
The house is divided into two parts with a double-height open-plan room on one side of the courtyard, and the bathroom and storage space on the other.
The bedroom, kitchen and dining room are all in one room, with a free-standing wall creating a partition.
Photographs are by Kazunori Fujimoto.
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House in Nasu
This is a weekend house built in the area height of above sea level 550m, in Nasu-town, Tochigi Prefecture.
Though in the resort town, the road and the neighbor houses are near by the site, and it seems difficult to keep a privacy.
So we aimed to make an indoor space like a Scandinavian soft interiors instead of the room open directly to the outside .
The surrounding’s tall trees blur the outline of the house, and the interior, they give the abstract light, shade, and many of colors.
It is one-room space that has two big windows and a concrete wall.
By the two windows the room connected to the outside environment.
Closing the white curtains, all symbols as “house” are hidden, and the color and materials that can be seen are limited, still more, the abstract space is filled calm atmosphere.
The inside concrete wall like “monolith” divide the space generously, and put the life in order.
Location: Nasu, Tochigi, Japan
Main use: weekend house
Site area: 504m2
Building area: 85.44m2
Total floor area: 85.44m2
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Design term: 2009
Construction term: 2010
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Japanese studio Level Architecs have completed a house in Tokyo, Japan, with a slide connecting all three floors.
A staircase wraps around one side of the rectangular house and the slide encircles the other.
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Occupants can decide at each level whether to descend by the stairs or by slide.
The living areas are located on the first floor and lead out to a double-height terrace, which also doubles up as a ball pen for children to play in.
A bedroom and bathroom are located on the top floor and a Japanese-style room and home office can be found at ground level.
Photographs are by Shinichi Tanaka unless otherwise stated.
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House in Nakameguro – “House with SLIDE”
It was the client’s desire. “I want to create the house to which three children remain in memories forever.” he said too.
For this family, “SLIDE” will be a symbol felt deeply.
We considered the possibility building its play space into the space of daily life naturally at the same time as thinking about “SLIDE”.
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We decided to be thought that it became no “House with SLIDE” it and “House of SLIDE” by it did not catch as mere “Play equipment” that along the stairs sideward of “SLIDE” like the slope, and set up in a part of the open ceiling and used it but building it in the entire construction.
They goes up from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor by “Stairs” according to outer in the house, and they descends from the 3rd floor to the 1st floor by “SLIDE”.
In all circumference in the house become big “SLIDE”, and the plan became the entire design as it is.
The rounded wall makes feel to enclose with “Stairs” and “SLIDE” in living room and dinning room and kitchen of the 2nd floor more.
Fixtures sofa with height of 6-meters gives the unity of sense to living room and dinning room and kitchen, and the subdued light from the courtyard at the center of the room pours into the room through the grating deck.
In the bedroom of the 3rd floor, daring to partition it doesn’t do, and be entire family’s bedroom now.
A soft shadow is cast on the inside and outside part because the entire house are roundness all, and externals that wear roundness are lovely houses where people happens to pass stops their foot.
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When this house was visited one month after the completion, “SLIDE” was relieved in daily life.
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In addition we saw children reverse-running.
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It was “House of SLIDE” that had already exceeded our imagination.
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Location / Tokyo, Japan
Site area / 109.82m2
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Total floor area / 163.69m2
Structure / wood
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Floor number / 3 stories
Completion / 2009
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Japanese studio Hidehiro Fukuda Architects have completed this house lined with oriented strand board in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
Called Duplex House in Tokito, the project was designed to house two families.
The two adjacent faceted rectangular structures are connected by a central corridor.
Little square windows are arranged irregularly.
See also: Double House by Tsuyoshi Kawata.
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Photographs are by Hidehiro Fukuda.
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duplex house in tokito
”duplex house in tokito” was designed to function as both a two-family home and an atelier, in a quiet residential area in Hakodate City, Hokkaido.
”Paper crane” was employed as our design concept, because we wanted to express the two generation’s long, happy life together. In Japan there is a tradition to give ”origami cranes” to loved ones, wishing them a long life.
We allocated two layers of space on the park side, and one layer on the neighbor’s house side, leaving a narrow space in the center. This narrow interspace became a path which connects the entrance hall and the terrace.
Even though it was inside of the house, we chose the same materials as the house exterior for the walls, and a transparent material for the roof, so that the parents who have a difficulty going out the door could feel as if they were outside.
The space architecture is constructed in order to represent the same philosophy as the room appearance. At the area appearing like a bird, opening her wings, an atelier and the Buddhist altar rooms are settled.
Where the area looks like a bird resting, a living room and a bed room are settled. Structural design, done by Ryouzo Umezawa, is created only by the periphery. So, the partition wall can be placed freely.
The wall is entirely represented in white. All rooms are connected with white space and passages. Diagonal lines joining roofs represent orientation of the interior landscape transforming gradually.
Architects: Hidehiro Fukuda architects
Location: hakodate, hokkaido,japan
Project architect: Hidehiro Fukuda , Hajime Kagoshima
Structural engineer: Ryozo Umezawa
Project area: 152.28sqm
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This house by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, is completely lined with with pine shelves to display the owners’ extensive collection of books.
Called Shelf-Pod, the house features interlocking laminated pine-boards that slot together to form the latticed shelving units.
The interior has a pyramid-shaped ceiling and wooden platforms of differing heights that form steps, tables and flooring.
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Shelf-Pod is a private residence located in Moriguchi City, Japan. The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested us to design this architecture not only for living, but would have the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition.
In order to satisfy this demand effectively, we designed a lattice structure made from 25mm thick laminated pine-board what serves as book-shelve.
The dimensions of each shelf are as follows: 360mm height, 300mm width and 300mm depth. All of the architectural elements in this space (stairs, windows, desks, chairs, etc) have been designed on the basis of this shelf scale, with the aim of achieving geometrical harmony that is comparable to Islamic Architecture.
This innovative structural system affords not only large amount of book storage, but the possibility of flexible floor level which is delivered from height of bookshelf. Each space for different activity rise up helically, giving the impression of exploring a wooden jungle gym.
The original image of this structure is derived from the Japanese woodcraft of Kumiko. The structural integrity against the earthquake is provided by a panel of plywood board nailed on the shelf. Initially, the horizontal resistant force guaranteed by the panels was examined in a real-scale model.
Further to this, an analysis of the whole structure was performed in order to determine the placement of the windows and panels.
The inter-locking laminated pine-board was manufactured precisely in advance and assembled on-site. Similarly, the pyramid-shaped roof was assembled on-site, from 12 pieces of prefabricated wooden roof panel.
The completed roof has a thickness of only 230mm and sensitively covers the whole space like the dome of a Mosque.
As oppose to its unique structure, the outer wall employs the construction techniques of a traditional Japanese storehouse Dozou.
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The bamboo net wall foundation layer was attached to the lattice structure and the clay and straw mixture was applied to the foundation by the trowel. Then the red cedar panels forms exterior wall.
The interior clay wall was finished with white plaster. These techniques are in accordance with urban fireproofing specifications, as well as maintaining a suitably humid environment for the storage of books.
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Design : Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio
Structural engineer : Mitsuda Structural Consultants
Date of completion : August 2007
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1st floor 38.34 square meter
2nd floor 13.44 square meter
total 51.78 square meter
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