TAKIZME transforms a compact renovated house in Shinagawa into a contemporary tea salon where spatial design, furniture and ritual slow the act of preparing tea.
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KYOTO WAND transforms a traditional Kyoto machiya into a day-use base for visitors, combining restored timber and earthen walls with indigo-dyed wood, washi, steel and spaces for rest, food and showering.
In rural Shibata, Niigata Prefecture, Né is a one group per day auberge shaped almost entirely by the land on which it stands. Built on the historic grounds of the
Lulla House by I IN combines sculptural interiors, crafted materials, and panoramic ocean views within a compact beachfront home in Kamakura.
BIG’s NOT A HOTEL Setouchi villas reinterpret Japanese spatial traditions through rammed earth construction and panoramic views across the Seto Inland Sea.
A self sufficient house in Amami Island that merges vernacular spatial logic with off grid living strategies.
Designed by Milan-based UNFORMED DESIGN, NATURE WITHIN rethinks the relationship between architecture and landscape through a villa that dissolves into lava rock formations in Japan’s Kitakaruizawa forest.
House in Tamba by MIDW in Kyoto explores how architecture can emerge from terrain through a restrained system of floor, walls, beams and roof, forming a continuous relationship between interior space and landscape.
Moulding the Arc is conceived as a spatial meditation on the origins of human settlement. Drawing from prehistoric modes of living, the installation reflects on the moment when nomadic existence began to give way to collective inhabitation. It approaches this transition not through literal reconstruction, but through an abstract language of geometry, material, and relational space.
Japanese designer So Koizumi moves fluidly between furniture, objects, and spatial thinking. Through experiments with materials such as asphalt and steel, his work explores how form, history, and human presence intersect. In this conversation, Koizumi reflects on material memory, sculptural thinking, and the subtle ways small objects can shape spatial experience.
