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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

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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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4 Bed Room

5 Entrance Hall

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2 Living

3 Atelier

4 Barcony

5 Room

6 Entrance

7 Tatami-room

8 Bath room

9 Storage

10 Terrace

scale 1/100

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first floor plan

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aluminium Composite Panel　

smoke detector

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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：

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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 ㎡

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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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2 Patio

3 Dining

4 Kitchen

5 Chapel

6 Office

7 Pastor’s room

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Pit

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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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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 ㎡

Environment

Volume

Access

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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

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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

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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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