House in Aobadai by Satoshi Okada Architects

Location : Aobadai, Tokyo, Japan
Architect : Satoshi Okada
Type : residence
Size : 238.46 sqm.
Structure : RC
Completion : 2004
Project team : Daikichi Honma
Structural designer : Kenta Masaki
General contractor : Fukazawa Construction Co.
Photo credit: Satoshi Okada Architects



















The house is located in the Daikanyama Hill, next to Shibuya district, one of the most fashionable areas in Tokyo, today. On the sloping terrain from north to south, the site figures a trapezoid shape of approx. 9.2m in width by 25.2m in depth upon a narrow front road to the west. The east end boundary is only tilted by 4.19 degree from the right angle.

The client is a young executive person, a car maniac, purchased an expensive lot for his own dwelling as well as for holding a private party with business partners or friends just behind the hot spot. His primary request is to make a garage in order to store 4 cars in the house made of a rigid and safe reinforced concrete structure against fires or earthquakes.























This condition demands, proportionally, a large area only for cars in the limited property; at last, it occupies a half of the whole site. Also, in terms of architectural laws to the cosmopolitan area, tall buildings cannot be realized for maintaining a well-preserved housing environment particularly on the right of light. On the north boundary, a setback regulation in architectural laws restricts the building height less than 5.6meters.

"SHIRO" by Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori

"SHIRO" by Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori Details :
Design / designer : 1980 / Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori
Location : Fukui city, Fukui prefecture, Japan
Project : Beauty Salon
Built : June, 2006
structure : Steel-frame building
site area : 194.26 sqm | building area : 78.17 sqm | total floor area : 166.79 sqm



A great building by japanese architect named SHIRO which mean White in english, Shiro is a hair beauty salon located in Fukui, Japan, made by architects 1980/Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori.



About the Architect "Takuya Hosokai" :

2008 :
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam

2005 :
- Established TAKUYAHOSOKAI
- Yokohama National University , Yokohama , Japan
- M.E. in Architectural Design

2003 :
- Yokohama National University , Yokohama , Japan
- B.E. in Architectural Design

1980 :
- Born in Niigata, Japan



The design is simple, and with a very eye-catching look. Great outlines, unusual angles with a little tension, and ’sharp’ is sure to add meaning to their hair dressing services! This building was finished in 2006 as the designers say.

Robert Harvey Oshartz Architect | The Miyasaka Residence

Wanna have such as a perfect and extraordinary residence like this one..?? Yeah, Everbody will love to live in this beautiful and unique residence that was designed for Miyasaka Family by Robert Harvey Oshartz Architect. This residence was constructed in Obihiro, Japan in 1995-96 and was completed in 1998.



















The Miyasaka Residence bridges the aesthetics of two disparate cultures, emblematic of neither, yet summoning echoes of both. Built to accommodate the busy lifestyle of the president of one of Obihiro's major commercial building contractors, as well provide a place of repose for his parents, the house was conceived to appear as a radiant jewel in the midst of an urban garden oasis.



















About Robert Harvey Oshatz

In 1971, Robert Oshatz established the firm of Robert Harvey Oshatz, Architect. Over the years the firm has provided a wide variety of organic architecture, planning, interior design and construction management services for developers and individual clients. Robert Harvey Oshatz, Architect has designed and built numerous commercial and residential projects over the past twenty plus years.



















Robert Oshatz has also been active as a speaker at public lectures and architectural gatherings. He has spoken at Auburn University, San Francisco Institute of Architecture, Monterey Design Conference, Portland City Club, Oregon School of Design, Oregon State University, San Bernardino City College, Lawrence Technological University and in November of 2000 held the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at The University of Oklahoma, where he spent a week lecturing and being a guest professor. He is also a guest lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution's Continuous Architecture series.



















While most architects today are specialists who associate with other specialists, Robert Oshatz is a generalist who associates with specialists. He has experience wearing the hat of a client, architect, and contractor. Acting as a client, he understands the delicate balance of the client's money and resources. He has acted as a construction manager and builder on a number of projects and understands the discipline of scheduling subcontractors while building a structure from the construction perspective.




















Project Detail :
Name : Miyasaka Family Residence
Location : Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
Designed : 1995-96
Completed : 1998

Penthouse in Hiroshima by Kubota Architect Atelier

The modern architecture design of this amazing penthouse in Hiroshima, Japan is all about windows. Kubota created this compact urban residence as a horizontal structure design.






















Through eliminating the corner frame where two parts of glass meet and by keeping the wall transparent and the ceiling running on towards the view, Kubota Architect Atelier delivers a feeling that you may continue safely and walk on air.




















Location: Hiroshima, Japan.

Japanese Home by TNA Architect

This is the Japanese Architectural on House project by Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima (TNA) . The Japanese architect that was collecting many awards from their project in architectural design, such as their New Ring House Design that was awarded for Best Private House, in the Wallpaper Design Awards 2008.








































































































Minimalist style on interior design of this home make this little home rooms area looks and feel more wider. its a nice concept and application for your lil' home too.

The Cloister House in Japan

See this beautiful japanese House of a Cloister that was designed by Tezuka Architects. a wonderful house that build without any column. The courtyard as the extension of an internal space is defined as the independent room. the house total floor area is 148.33 sqm















The construction of the house was done by japanese constructor : Kenrokutochitatemono Corporation.

House in Hachikenya by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect

This japanese Hachikenya house is a compact residence for a four-person family that is built in the city suburbs. It's designed on the basis of the 3m grid. The house aim is to solving 3 problems at the same time in the small space and the budget.

1-Keeping eight rooms which the client demanded.
2-Not giving the tightness to each room.
3-Designing the rooms where we can enjoy the spread of the exterior.

















Two sets of the crossing walls support the Vertical load of this building and the roof. These walls divided the interior of this house into eight rooms. Each room is divided with the sliding door. Some doors are perfectly hidden when it opens, because the door cases for these are set into RC wall. When all sliding doors are released, the whole house will be felt just like a oneroom space.















































Photo by Kazunori Fujimoto

The steel pillars of the perimeter support the Normal load. In order to make the building look lightly, steel pillars are set into vertical frame of the sash.
I aimed at making rich living-space with only the composition of the basic element of construction, a floor, a wall, and a roof.
With the simple structural plan and the device of the detail, this minimum house got rich space.

Japanese House on Mt.Yataka

Japanese House on Mt.Yataka
This House is located 300m height above sea on the top of Mountain Yataka. The house that build for the Stone-Sculptor. This house have maximum-opened shelter that can be open to nature and can be protected according to the outside conditions.

The shelter form that have two roof slabs, covers sloping ground and offer the house with four different level floors that following the site slope. These four spaces are connected into one-room space and integrated into its surroundings.

























































Interior is planed to take in landscape and temperate outdoor climate with glass facade. Although deep eaves and corridor with low-height wall offers buffer zone against sunshine.
The house is made into un-homogeneous space. In Interior by variations of height of wall and ceiling, the degree of opening-sense changes with different floor levels.











































photo by Kaori Ichikawa

The optimum material is selected using concrete material that can oppose natural severity. In minimum expression using concrete, I tried to pull out bivalent character of space - transparency and lightness with solid weighty texture (Kazunori Fujimoto).