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So that the sky can reach every corner of the house

Although it is located on a small site in the city center, the building allows you to feel the sky from every room. In the second work "Message from the Sky", the light from the thin skylight creat...

Testing the light at 1/3 scale

[POSTER] Weekly Projects We are releasing the mockup for our previous project, "Message from the sky." This prototype was created in the early stages of design to confirm whether the light would ...

The message of the sky, told through light and shadow

The light shining in from the thin skylights is repeated multiple times, changing its appearance from moment to moment. A "filter" that abstracts the natural phenomenon of the sky and brings it ind...

A checkered pattern that incorporates earthquake resistance reinforcement into the design

This project involved the seismic reinforcement and renovation of a commercial building that was completed in 1961 and has since been expanded and remodeled several times. The checkered earthquake-...

Even though it's only six stories, it feels like it's two stories!

The student dormitory at Otsuma Women's University is a six-story building, but from the street it looks like a two-story building. This was achieved by limiting the height of each floor to the equ...

A light and airy office connected by a street garden

An office with a "street garden" proposes a new way of working in a streetscape that still retains strong traces of the castle town of the early modern period. This space, named "street garden," le...