This shop for UPI, a company that specializes in equipment and paraphernalia for mountaineering, hiking, and camping, is a work of Javier Villar Ruiz and Tomoki Yamasaki of Happenstance Collective [HaCo]. Blurring the limits between interior and exte
The house, inspired by the townscape of overlapping roofs that blend into the mountain landscape, is blurred in several stacked volumes, pursuing an architecture of ‘small roofs’ to create terraces and different experiences of space.
This work is the result of the collaboration between Ryue Nishizawa and Nendo studio. The wood pavilion nicknamed ‘roof and mushrooms’ is located on a hillside of the University of Art and Design in Kyoto, inviting students to seize this inspiring na
Located in Kyoto’s suburbs, this aggregation of dwellings is discreetly inserted in the urban fabric in keeping with the layout and scale of the traditional houses around it. The compound includes ten dwellings divided into small spatial units, formi
The Japanese poet and essayist Kamono Chomei (1155-1216) decided eight hundred years ago to live as a hermit in a small hut, Hojo-an, of approximately nine square meters (3 x 3). There he wrote one of his most important pieces, Hojoki (‘An Account of
Compuesta de un cuerpo alto, concebido como una torre, y de otro más bajo, que actúa de zócalo, la casa oculta tras su escueta silueta un sencillo pero articulado espacio interior.
La silueta en forma de gablete define una pequeña escuela en Kioto cuyo volumen compacto alberga un interior acogedor que se organiza mediante dos ámbitos complementarios.
Occupying a deep site in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, the Toyota Auto building was the second of three projects completed in Japan by David Chipperfield Architects in the early 1990s (alongside the Gotoh Museum in Chiba and the Matsumoto Corpor
There are very few countries where religious syncretism is so deeply rooted as it is in Japan. The practice of the original sintoism in the Japanese archipelago coexists with the Buddhism that was introduced through Korea in the year 539 a. C., and t
