This land was once the site of NIshihachijo-palace, which was the residence of a hero of the Japanese

The entrance to the house is from the root carved into the center of the front wall. An inner pathway

Concrete shape which is based on nature turns into a hollow cave, light, and sunbeams filtered throug

This construction is a collective housing consisting of 11 units. The impersonality of segmental hous

The lot size is 16m×19m. This architecture gives an answer how to build a low collective housing in a

What does the name Saitan mean? Tan is the color of the shrine gates, vermilion. It is also the color

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The collective housing that is built on such a historical place should not be seen as an average apar

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In this project the inner path is connected to the garden of the town house of the client. He manages

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The architecture is covered with a wall in which holes are cut. The shape of the holes resembles a tr

Since curved holes are made on a carved wall surface, it is physically inevitable that the section of

The idea of windows like sunbeams filtered through trees has developed with the following methods: li

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We, therefore, designed a building which does not take vaguely a shape of a tree, but rather an inten

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Text description provided by the architects. The site is in Nishioji-hachijo, Kyoto. From the main st