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T-HOUSE
2009-2010
Private House
78.66m2
Kugayama Church
2008-2009
Private House / Church
223.06m2
Maison DOUZE
2008-2009
Housing
533.20m2
Kogakuin University Student Center
2009
University Student Center
9,630 ㎡
Hokusai Museum of Sumida Design Proposal
2008
Museum
4,920 ㎡
OGAL PLAZA
2008 - (under construction)
Urban design
11.8 ha
OGAL PLAZA Public Library
2009 - (under construction)
library / child care center / tenant / marche
6567.42m2
Street Library
2005-2006
Urban pathway (Library・Park)
78.66m2
T-HOUSE
2009-2010
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Private House
78.66 ㎡
Position: Project Architect
• Managed project with responsibilities for all process.
• Prepared and presented feasibility reports and design proposals to the client.
• Produced detailed working drawings and specifications.
• Resolved problems and issues that arose during construction.
Kitchen
Living
Room
1st floor
1st floor
1st floor
1st floor
1st floor
1st floor
Plan
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Structure
setback regulation
setback regulation
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AtelierKitchen Living Atelier
Kitchen
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Atelier
: beam: column
The site is rich and green, located not far from the center of Tokyo.
The owner, an artist, wanted to arrange and extend his atelier space into the living room. He also wanted a wall of bookshelves
with a good view of the back covers. The first floor was thus totally allotted to one room where he would spend most of the day,
the other rooms being arranged on the ground floor. Saw-toothed factory-type roofs with large openings of glass were formed
to the South and to the North to maintain good ventilation, and light from the sky. This arrangement of rooms attained a notable
effect of expanding the sense of space, while the division of the room is made naturally by sunshine shifting slowly along with the
change in daylight. The transcience of the seasons as exhibited by the color of the forest is taken in through the view.
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2 Living
3 Atelier
4 Bed Room
5 Entrance Hall
6 Tatami Roomscale 1/200
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glass wool 24kg/㎡
1 Dining
2 Living
3 Atelier
4 Barcony
5 Room
6 Entrance
7 Tatami-room
8 Bath room
9 Storage
10 Terrace
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first floor plan
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aluminium Composite Panel
smoke detector
smoke detectorBPLt182-M16
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barcony base pole:steel pipe 48.3φ×t6rust proofing paint+SOP*joint:steel pipe 30φ
barcony flame:steel pipe 48.3φ×t6rust proofing paint +SOP
barcony board:steel gratingbase angle L-50×50×6
rust proofing painting +SOP
balustrer:steel pipe 12φrust proofing paint +SOP
steel pipe 20φrust proofing paint +SOP
tie rod:
polycarbonate board t6bolt@200(SUS domed cap nut)
eaves board:
steel pipe 30φrust proofing panint +SOP
eaves flame:
L-30×30×5rust proofing paint +SOP
eaves base:
structural ply wood t18silicate calcium board t10asphalt roofingpurlin t30galvalium steel panels rib-seam jointheat insulator 24kg/m3
balustrade top rail:steel pipe 30φrust proofing paint+SOP*joint: steel pipe 15φ
top rail 30φbalustrer 10φstrut 20φ
picture rail(W3.5M)
bath room mirror 450φ
curtain rail
ventilation fan
ventilation fan
kitchen shelves:
bracket light
counter W1140
Washing Machine Pan750 size
beam:150×105
ceiling:
pine laminated veneer lumber
ceiling :FRP Waterproofing structural plywoodt12
wall:
floor:floor:
floor:
floor board:chestnut flooring t3plywood t9structural plywood t12
floor:chestnut flooring t3plywood t9structural plywood t12
three-sided mirror
UB board acrylic paint
FRP water proofing structural plywood t12
FRP water proofing structural plywood t12
inside : heat insulator grass wool 24kg/m3 plaster boardt12 japanese linden veneert5.5+osmo color (V6 part:structural plywood t12.5 +japanese linden veneert5.5)
run:oak(OS+UC)
balustrade:steel pipe bended +SOP
galvalium steel panel bendingeaves gutter:
polyvinyl chloride flooring t3plywood t9structural plywood t12
external wall :outside: structural plywoodt12 waterproof sheet furring stripst18
roof:
balustrade:hot-dip gavanizing steelbalustrade 30φbaluster 12φstrut 20φ
ply wood t12japanese lindesh veneert4
ceiling:ply wood t12japanese lindesh veneert4
lighting duct aluminium channel C-80×40
chestnut flooring t3with under floor heatingplywood t9structural plywood t12
ventilation fan panel:punched japanese lindeshveneert4
1 Living/Dining/Atelier
2 Entrance hall
3 Bath room
4 Closet
5 Barcony
scale 1/50
sectional details
Position: Assistant Architect
• Joined team and discussed the objectives, requirements and budget of the project.
• Assisted the project architect in producing drawings, models and images.
• Adjusted and clarified the legal conditions including negotiations with the government office.
This church was located at the dead-end of a narrow lane to a densely inhabited neighborhood in the western suburb of Tokyo. On
the top of a small hill and surrounded by buildings on almost all sides, this church could only be noticed from one corner where an
entrance was located.
The chapel and the related functions were arranged into the basement, approached via exterior stairs. The pastor’s residence was
open to a spacious patio mainly used for the communal activities. Climbing up the hill, and descending the deep stair lead to a
dark prayer space. At the end of which worshipors would find the cross hung under the unexpectedly strong sunlight introduced
from above.
In contrast with this dark realm below, the upper sphere was fully lit through the central patio. A narrow path under eaves and
pergola provided a transitional zone. Although there was essentially no garden, the approaching lane and the stairway to the
basement were fringed with rich vegetation to cut the view from the disturbances of the outer world.
Kugayama Church
2008-2009
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Private House / Church
223.08 ㎡
section section section
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Density
chapel
residenceresidence
kitchenresidence
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basement floor chapel
1 lounge
2 patio
3 dining
4 kitchen
5 bed room
6 lavatory
7 bath room
8 entrance
9 hall
10 chapel
11 pastor's room
12 office
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1 Lounge
2 Patio
3 Dining
4 Kitchen
5 Chapel
6 Office
7 Pastor’s room
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Pit
Pit scale 1/100
south elevation
Position: Project Architect
• Managed the project from start to finish.
• Negotiated with contractors and other professionals.
• Visited the site regularly to check on progress, ensuring that the project ran on time and to budget.
This was a scheme for housing and studios for twelve artists. We designed the scheme to gain the maximum volume allowable
within the legal conditions of Japanese regulations.
Each unit had a ceiling height of four meters to allow for the production of large sized art work. The kitchen and bathroom were
made smaller and lower to allow a loft space above which doubles as a sleeping area.
This arrangement allows diagonal space and an expansion of the perceived area of the apartments as well as cross ventilation and
views.
maison DOUZE
2008-2009
Location: Saitama, Japan
Housing
533.20m2
Plan
Circulation
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water surroundings
second room
work space
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1 Main entrance2 Entranc3 Room 4 Kitchen 5 Bathroom 6 Terrace
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Position: Assistant Architect
• Arranged the qualification of the competitions for the first discussion.
• Joined competition team and discussed concept design.
• Prepared materials, such as models and CG images, and put them into one sheet of the presentation board.
Presented is a plan for a University Campus located in Hachioji, Tokyo. The site of the University is situated halfway up a mountain.
One can get a bird’s eye view of whole the surrounding campus, and far down to the houses and streets of Hachioji town.
“Two-fold Academy Rings” floating on “The Common Hill”
The lecture rooms, the laboratories, and the other offices were so arranged as to form two-fold rings-structure with corridors
following the traditional style of a college enclosing a courtyard.
Further, this open space of the courtyard rich in green was designed on a hill. The rings were constructed as if they looked like
floated on the piloti, and the administration offices were situated beneath the courtyard of a hummock, named here “The Common
Hill”, because it presented an easy access to the lecture rooms. Thus any access via piloti from the surrounding buildings of the
campus was guaranteed, and the access paths to the offices became also smooth. The administration offices in the underground
took advantage of the location that could receive light from above the hill. This configuration secured both realizing good views
from the neighboring center down to the towns, and also enabling the lower height of the buildings.
Kogakuin University
Student Center
2009
Location: Tokyo, Japan
University Student Center
9,630 ㎡
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Position: Assistant Architect
• Arranged the qualification of the competitions for the first discussion.
• Joined competition team and discussed concept design.
• Prepared materials, such as models and CG images, and put them into one sheet of the presentation board.
“A Casket floated in the sky”
This proposal is for a Hokusai Museum planed in the site near the new Tokyo Tower under construction.
The principal requirement for the new plan was a building that could contribute to the inhabitants of the city in a variety of their
activities.
The site neighbored a park facing to the main street of the name of Hokusai.
The new building was so planned as the citizens could make good use of the facility in their daily lives. An interface to function
a smooth access to the building was formed in succession to the park. Above on the site was structured a wooden casket in a
form of floating in the sky that took a precious collections and the material of Hokusai. The casket was equipped with display and
information retrieval apparatus.
It was expected that the museum might present a sight familiar with the citizens, as if a landmark floated in front of the park.
Hokusai Museum of Sumida
Design Proposal
2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Museum
4,920 ㎡
Museum - City
Plan
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Sunken garden between the park and the museum
Position: Assistant Architect
• Joined team and discussed the objectives, requirements and budget of the project.
• Assisted feasiblity study such as searching the local area conditions and similar scheme of the urban design project.
• Assisted producing design guideline, making models and images.
This project was planed to connect the west side of the station in the pastoral area with the east side that featured the historical
district ”Hizume” of an old post town once crowded for a few hundred years.
The site was divided into three zones. Firstly the green principal street consisting of the municipal office, the library, community
studio, store buildings, and a public square among those buildings, secondly the neighboring residential zone, and thirdly the
peripheral zone of the site.
The respective zones were so planed as they would “echo” with the neighboring districts depending on the proper background
of the respective regions; 1. The green principal street was planed in reference to a scenery of an old village spread among the
windbreak forests called “Egune”, 2. In the residential zone was adopted a “southern cornered housings” consisting of a stable and
a residence jointed in the form of a letter “L”, as were often popular since the old time in Shiwa.
A design guideline was further organized so that the designing of the streets and the buildings on the sites could be positively
controlled. This guideline was made full use of in creating and maintaining environmental conditions of the town, in which the
inhabitants and the visitors find the beauty and the prosperity, as well as of the cultural consistency.
OGAL PLAZA
2008- (under construction)
Location: Iwate, Japan
Urban design
11.8 ha
tradittionalold area
residential area
residential area
paddy area
vacant lot
residential area
residential area
paddy areagreen street & park
sports ground
tradittionalold area
paddy areagreen street & park
sports ground
residential area
residential area
residential area
residential area
tradittionalold area
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site
form
car
strage
gate・wall・fence
public landscape
TYPEⅠ TYPEⅡ TYPEⅢ TYPEⅣ TYPEⅤ TYPEⅥ
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square L- ① L- ② square L- ① L- ②
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Green street zone
Residential zone
The peripheral zone
southern cornered housing
paddy area
Position: Assistant Architect
• Joined competition team and discussed the objectives, requirements.
• Assisted the project architect in producing drawings, models and images.
• Adjusted and clarified the legal conditions and the budget of the project.
This project was of the first building as belonged to the OGAL Urban Design Project.
A library was planned to be constructed at the site near a station facing the green principal street. The plan was characterized as
to realize a facility in which not only the citizens could utilize it but also cultural exchanges among the citizens were to be actively
promoted.
Thus a large scale two-storied building of the floor space over 6,000 square meters was designed, in which the building consisted
of three wooden-structures separated by two reinforced concrete-structures.
This configuration enabled to apply for a large-scale complex-use wooden building. Further more, this scheme of the wooden
building reduced the cost, and also contributed to use local wood, and so to reinvigorate local economies.
In addition to the configuration of the complex building scheme, methods of construction were examined in detail to allow not
only possible choice of the conventional Japanese method but also the wooden structure with the beautiful “mansard roof” that
presented pillar-less space in the upper-story, as of the structure by Inayama Masahiro.
OGAL PLAZA Public Library
2009 - (under construction)
Location: Iwate, Japan
library / child care center / tenant
/ marche
6567.42m2
SectionS=1:1000
clinic tenant
EV hall
civic hallpublic library
exhibition spacechild care center
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STREET LIBRARY
2005-2006
Location: Yanaka, Japan
Urban pathway
(Library/Park)
A new concept of "an urban pathway" is proposed that would possibly draw inhabitants with the regional history and its color
into the existing buildings, and so contribute daily to create new activities just by presenting transient places in which a variety of
voluntary interaction among them could more happen.
In the course of the research attempted to re-examine how people tend to select their respective communities among urban
spaces at the traditional downtown attention was focused onto the fertile public space where the narrow streets run and cross like
web among the unique residential districts of complexity.
This is the aim of the scheme to reform the open space so that the new urban pathways are contrived to lead and connect to the
existing community center, and work as active streets rather than passive space keeping good privacy and safety isolation in the
city, hopefully compatible with the traditional features of the old communities.
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