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University Japanese sweets shop Tourist information center, Office building, gathering spots 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Daiwa Ubiquitous Research Building 1F, exhibition hall, cafe 1-22-16, Asausabashi, Taito-ku, 111-0053 +81 3 5841 5902（ Interfac- 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 2-18-9, Kaminarimon, Taito-ku,111-0034 +81 3 5822 5971 ulty Initiative in Information Studies） +81 3 5802 5577 +81 3 3842 5566 OPEN HOURS: 11:00-14:00 OPEN HOURS: The building is located in a busy wholesale The building was constructed for the [B1-3F,6F,7F] 9:00-20:00, district in Tokyo. The site was formerly a university’s new field of research on ubiq- This is a café run by one of Tokyo’s most [4F,5F,8F] 9:00-22:00, local junior high school, and its vicinity uitous computing. Our aim was to break highly-rated restaurants of Japanese [8F CAFE] 9:00-20:00 still keeps some bustling atmosphere away from conventional image of cam- cuisine, also located near the university. of the downtown. We planned to create puses that consist of hard materials such Inside the café and in the semi-outdoor In the corner premise of just 326㎡ an urban environment where the past as concrete, metal or stone, and to instead space with a famous at across Kaminari- Gate, the building and the present, offices and shops are design a soft building made with wood the back, guests can enjoy the view as well. was required to accommodate plural naturally combined. Technically, we drew and earth. Here, scalelike panels of natural programs such as tourist information ideas from traditional elements such as materials (wood and earth) gently undu- center, conference room, multi- wooden lattice or roofed mud wall, which late to form a smooth and organic façade. purpose hall and an exhibition space. on their own work as a façade for the At the center of the building comes an streets. For the new building, we applied organ-like aperture covered with soft horizontal ribbon windows, louvers and membrane. It joins the lane in the front ribbed precast concrete panels to express and the Japanese garden (part of the a nuanced façade. An office building, university president’s guest house) at which tends to be a massive chunk of the back. The opening also generates concrete, can be dissolved into a human a gentle and organic flow of light and scale structure like this. We are nostalgic wind in the campus, which is otherwise about so-called downtowns, but new at- dominated by the strict grid arrangement. tempts are needed to revive the life there. 7 KAYANOYA 8 TONETS BUILDING 9 KITTE 10 SHICHIJUNIKOU

Grocery Office building Shopping center Japanese restaurant COREDO Muromachi3 1F, 1-5- 2-5-12, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, 104-0031 2-7-2, , Chiyoda-ku, 100-7001 Tokyo station hotel B1F, 1-9-1, 5, Muromachi, , +81 3 5250 4112 +81 3 3216 2811 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, 100-0005 Chuo-ku, 103-0022 OPEN HOURS: +81 3 6269 9401 +81 3 6262 3170 We worked on the façade of this building. MON-SAT[shop] 11:00-21:00, OPEN HOURS:WEEKDAYS 11:00-15:30 OPEN HOURS: 10:00-21:00 It features tenderness and smoothness [restaurant] 11:00-23:00, (L.O.14：30) 17:00-23:00(L.O.21：30), of nature. The aluminum louvers can be SUN AND HOLIDAY[shop] 11:00-20:00, SAT, SUN AND HOLIDAY 11:00-16:30 Kayanoya originates in Kuhara Shoyu multi-angled and decided by computer [restaurant] 11:00-22:00 (L.O.15：30) 17:00-23:00(L.O.21：30) , Kyushu, a soy sauce manufacturer calculation, in order to control the amount whose history dates back more than 120 of solar energy coming in so it would Discussion on preserving old buildings As the restaurant is in the basement years. The Kayanoya Shop in Nihonbashi reduce the load on ventilation. The tends to end up in keeping all or nothing. of Tokyo Station’s Marunouchi side, a is a reproduction of their traditional entrance hall is a subtly nuanced space With KITTE we aimed at a cohabitation of nationally designated important property warehouse which we visited in Kyushu. with reinterpretation of traditional ele- the old and new. The east side of the atrium asset, we planned the space with themes Shoyu wooden barrels float to the ments such as a lattice grid and . retains the frame from the old post office of layering different periods. We chose a top. Barrels used for traditional shoyu- building designed by Tetsuro Yoshida. We white polyester cloth as to express this making are big and strong. To display the dyed the frame to white, and exposed it to layering, since it holds a feeling of texture products, Koji Buta (koji is malt rice used highlight the structure in a line. The two and semi-transparency. When layered, a as a medium to make fermented food or sides facing each other are equipped with kind of moire is born and the cloth grows seasoning as shoyu, miso and sake) is used glass handrails, on which mirrors in 10mm into a new ambiguous texture, creating as furniture. Koji Buta is a special wooden width are printed, so that they could “foggy air” in the space. It also presents tray when making Koji for shoyu, and its reflect part of the old building in the space. a solid feel by being combined with hard design is highly functional and sophisti- materials as metal, glass and wood. cated. We wanted to bring in an impact that these powerful utensils suddenly emerge in the town of Nihonbashi, Tokyo. 11 SUSHIDOKORO JUN 12 TIFFANY GINZA 13 GINZA KABUKIZA 14 JUGETSUDO KABUKIZA

SUSHI restaurant jewelry shop Theater, Office Japanese green tea shop, cafe Mitsubishi Building B1F, 2-3-1, 2-7-17, Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061 4-12-15, Ginza,Chuo-ku, 104-0061 Kabukiza tower 5F, 4-12-15, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, 100-8086 +81 3 5250 2900 +81 3 3545 6800 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061 +81 3 6212 8800 OPEN HOURS: 10:30-20:00 OPEN HOURS:different by a performance +81 3 6278 7626 OPEN HOURS:MON-FRI 11:30-14:00 OPEN HOURS: 10:00-19:00 （L.O. 13:30） 17:00-22:00（L.O. 21:30）, I wanted to reflect in our design Tiffany’ Kabuki is one of the most popular per- SAT 11:30-21:00（ L.O. 20:30） s well-known technique‒the way face forming arts of Japan, and its history dates Jugetsudo Kabukiza is a café that serves CLOSED ON SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY of jewelry is cut ‒ the stone is slightly back more than 300 years, to the era of Japanese green tea which faces the lifted up and the light can come in from Edo. Kabuki’s first purpose-built theater rooftop garden of Kabukiza. Pieces of This sushi shop has been long popular in the back of the stone. I was always was erected in 1890, when people in Meiji bamboo with a varying amount of space the district. In this particular interested in the relation between jewelry period were busy catching up with culture between them were used to softly parti- restaurant in Tokyo’s high end Marunouchi and light, as jewelry shines because of from the West. Having gone through a tion the space, and the ceiling was “bent” area, guests can enjoy the delicate taste light. The attraction of Tiffany jewelry is couple of reconstructions since then, with pieces of bamboo that stick out of sushi in a warm and tranquil setting, exactly this, and I wanted to express their the new Ginza Kabukiza opened in the under the roof eaves into the Japanese with themes of light, stone and wind. delicate transparency in this architecture. spring of 2013 as its fifth theater. KKAA’ garden to create space that resembles It is also important that this shop is locat- s design maintains the atmosphere of Origami in which the garden is connected ed in Ginza. Ginza is the most sophisticated, the fourth iteration, which held long-felt with the inside. Multiple overlapping chic district in Tokyo. Although Ginza familiarity, and used parts and materials layers of bamboo with differing densities streets are nowadays covered with new from the previous building as much as created space like a bamboo groove that noisy buildings, the design of Tiffany re- possible. While the high-rise building softly connects Kabukiza and the garden. sponds positively to the identity of Ginza. connected to the back of the theatre In every respect, light was the key to this financially sustains the running of kabuki, project. First, we focused on the 80cm- several new spaces and facilities were gap between the existing building and the also added to this fifth theatre. The plaza site boundary. Into the gap we fitted a set in front of the building, restaurants and of 292 special panels (facet panels) made shops in the basement, and arcade to the with glass and aluminum honeycomb. shopping street at the side of the theater Each panel is arranged in varied angles in all revive an atmosphere of shibai-machi order to penetrate and diffuse the light ‒ theater-lovers’ gathering point in Edo like a carefully-cut diamond, which would period. The building is also fully equipped enhance the elegant atmosphere in Ginza. as an evacuation center in disasters. SHINONOME CANAL COURT GINZA SHOCHIKU SQUARE THE CAPITOL HOTEL TOKYU TOKYO MIDTOWN D-NORTH WING 15 16 CODAN 17 18

Office building Apartment house, shop Hotel Shopping center 1-13-11, , Chuo-ku, 104-0045 1-9-17, Shinonome, Koto-ku, 135-0062 2-10-3, Nagata-cho, 9-7-1, Akasaka, Minato-ku, 107-0052 +81 3 5547 0180（ service center） Chiyoda-ku, 100-0014 +81 3 3475 3100 The building is located in the neighbor- +81 3 3503 0109 OPEN HOURS: [shop] 11:00-21:00、[restau- hood of Kabukiza, which accommodates This project represents a new concept in rant] 11:00-24:00(different by restaurant) restaurants, offices and residences. public housing. It is located on reclaimed The hotel was built initially in 1963, one Stepping into the building, visitors are land in Tokyo, and combines dwellings, of- year before the year of Tokyo Olympics, This wing of Tokyo Mid Town accommo- ushered into a long flight of stairs stretch- fices (SOHO ‒ Small Offices, Home Offices), and had attracted celebrities such as dates a number of restaurants. To high- ing to 30m. It was designed with the idea commercial facilities and public facilities. the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Luciano light their differences, the curves on the of tiered seating, which functions not Multi-family housing in the 20th century Pavarotti, and others. The old building was exterior vary according to the restaurant. only for ascending and descending, but has tended to only contain space for taken down in 2006, and the new building also as an open space for the public. dwellings, eliminating other functions opened in 2010 as the Capitol Hotel Tokyu. from the structure. This concept has been The name “capitol” came from the parlia- particularly dominant in Japanese public ment building located in the same area. housing. The result has been a loss in the Though it is situated in a high-rise tower, completeness of functions necessary for a the lattice on the exterior and the stacked high quality of life. This multi-family hous- truss on the interior create a light feeling of ing project mixes functions to the greatest traditional Japanese wooden architecture. extent possible, restoring a well-rounded quality and functionality to life here. SUNTORY MUSEUM LUCIEN PELLAT-FINET - TOKYO KURAYAMIZAKA MIYASHITA BAISO IN TEMPLE 19 20 MIDTOWN SHOP 21 22

Museum Boutique Japanese restaurant Temple TOKYO MIDTOWN garden side TOKYO MIDTOWN galleria 2F 2-24-8 BY-CUBE 1F, Minamiaoy- 2-26-38, Minamiaoyama, 9-7-4, Akasaka, Minato-ku, 107-8643 9-7-4, Akasaka, Minato-ku, 107-8643 ama, Minato-ku, 107-0062 Minato-ku, 107-0062 +81 3 3479 8600 +81 3 5647 8333 +81 3 5785 2431 +81 3 3404 8447 OPEN HOURS: SUN-THU 10:00-18:00, OPEN HOURS: 11:00-21:00 OPEN HOURS: 12:00-15:00(L.O.14： OPEN HOURS: 8:00-19:30 FRI AND SAT 10:00-20:00, 00) 18:00-23:00(L.O.21：30), CLOSED ON TUESDAY This boutique at Tokyo Midtown was CLOSED ON SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY Built 360 years ago, Baisoin Buddhist created for Lucien Pellat-Finet, who is Temple is one of the oldest temples “A living room in the big city” is the con- called the “King of Cashmere”. Each piece in Tokyo. In the old days temples and cept of this museum. Why a living room? of structural plywood was cut with a laser churches acted as community centers and Cities have been increasingly “interiorized” cutter to have a differing curved shape, as foci for all kinds of cultural activities nowadays, with the advanced technology and regularly arranged at a pitch of 10cm in the city. The goal of this project was to in communications and transport. Dis- to create space that feels like a soft cave. give back temples their lost status as focal tances between things have disappeared, Using a rough inexpensive material like points and as institutions open to citizens. directing the entire city towards inner structural plywood in Tokyo Midtown with rooms in a big house. In that house, there its many luxurious boutiques may appear are lots of corridors and dining rooms, foreign. We expressed the philosophy but not much of space where people can of Lucien who wishes to have cashmere relax. In the Suntory Museum, time passes become a material that people wear when slowly, and visitors take their time with walking on streets in their neighbor- the exhibited artwork. Materials here are hoods by using structural plywood. all human-friendly, and lighting is de- signed carefully to be as soft as possible. 23 ESCORTER AOYAMA 24 NEZU MUSEUM 25 NEZUCAFÉ 26 MIELE CENTER OMOTESANDO

Office, Shop Museum Cafe Showroom ( household electric applianceand 2-7-15, Kitaaoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0061 6-5-1, Minamiaoyama, 6-5-1, Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0062 apparatus for business use ) Minato-ku, 107-0062 +81 3 3400 2536 4-23-8, Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0062 The NTT Aoyama renovation project +81 3 3400 2536 OPEN HOURS: 10：00-17：00（L.O. 16:15） 0120 310 724 involves the conversion of the bottom OPEN HOURS: 10：00-17：00 CLOSED ON MONDAY OPEN HOURS: 11:00-18:00 floors. The reduction in the size of the CLOSED ON MONDAY CLOSED ON WEDNESEDAY equipment at telephone exchanges has The café is located in the garden of Nezu made more space available, and the The design theme for this museum in the Museum. Visitors can enjoy the view of The space reflects the characteristics space that was previously occupied by center of Tokyo consisted of adopting a the woods through the glazing and enjoy of Miele, such as accuracy, functional- “black boxes” is being opened up to the unique roof design to blend the interior subtle light from the top as well, as if ity, flexibility, and tenderness. city. Finding effective ways of bring- space with the garden. The interior display sitting among the trees. Tyvek is applied To create the atmosphere of advanced ing the city into the building is a very space was made integral with the garden as the material for the wall and the ceiling. functionality, and to make visitors feel relevant issue to contemporary society. by providing large glass openings in an comfortable, special attention is paid to attempt to merge the garden, building the choice of materials: stainless steel, and artwork. Surrounded by a verdant glass, and wood are harmoniously ar- garden and featuring a bamboo lined ranged in anticipation of the new living approach, the focus was to create spaces of the 21st century and beyond. spiritual art space that provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of the city. 27 SUNNYHILLS JAPAN 28 ONE OMOTESANDO 29 WAKETOKUYAMA 30 JR SHIBUYA STATION FAÇADE

Pineapple cake shop Office, Fashion building Japanese restaurant Station 3-10-20, Minamiaoyama, 3-5-29, Kitaaoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0061 5-1-5, Minamiazabu, Minato-ku, 106-0047 1-1, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, 150-0043 Minato-ku, 107-0062 OPEN HOURS: [shop] 11:00-20:00 +81 3 5789 3838 +81 3 3461 0587 +81 3 3408 7778 OPEN HOURS: 17:00～ 23:00（L.O. 21：00） OPEN HOURS: 11:00-19:00 The project is the head office building CLOSED ON SUNDAY Shibuya is the district in Tokyo most popu- of a fashion group that stands at the lar with the younger generation. Here, one We used a traditional joint system in wood entrance to Omotesando, often called This is one of the best Japanese restaurants finds junior and high school students with structure construction in Japan called the most beautiful avenue in Tokyo. in Tokyo, reflected by its Michelin ranking. colored hair and strange outfits roaming “Jigoku Gumi” to create soft warm human Omotesando is a picturesque boulevard The road and building are separated around, squatting on the street and even space that feels like a forest or cloud. lined on both sides with huge zelkova by screens that were made by slicing sleeping at all times of the day and night. The adoption of a 3D structure system trees that leads to , the largest 100mm thick existing cement panels This is a town of chaos and boisterous en- enabled the cross section of one member in Tokyo. My aim was to into pieces measuring 200mm to create ergy: the streets are filled with images and to be reduced to as thin as 60mm x 60mm. make these trees resonate and not conflict serene space in the center of the city. signboards, and the classical segmentation This same type of wood members that with the building. We created a mullion; This project consisted of a challenge of architecture and advertisements has are as thin as branches which were 45 cm deep with laminated wood made to make the leap of creating luxurious lost it’s meaning. Boundaries separating used to build this space are used to of larch supporting the curtain wall. The space for a high-class Japanese restau- architecture from visual images, materials taste the pineapple cake made from stems would resonate with the lumber rant by simply slicing an inexpensive from non-materials, and reality from virtual carefully selected ingredients. and the vertical lines of mullions would industrial product. It also represents a reality have all but disappeared. Every- resonate with vertical lines of the trees. criticism of the use of bamboo, Japanese thing is mutually dissolved in liquid form. The wooden mullion also resonates with paper and clay walls in Japanese res- Meiji Shrine’s wooden architecture. taurants which has become a cliché. SHIBUYA STATION AREA RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY AKAGI JINJA SHRINE LA KAGU 31 REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT 32 33 34

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Station, Shopping center Music school Shrine, Apartment house Curation store 2-24-1, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, 150-0002 1-3-3, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, 150- 1-10, Akagimotomachi, 67, Yaraicho, Shinjuku-ku, 162-0805 Shinjuku-ku, 162-0817 SHOP: +81 3 5227 6977 0002 +81 3 3260 5071 C A FE : +81 3 5579 2130 OPEN HOURS: [shop] 11:00-20:00, Red Bull runs a “mobile” Music Academy At the peak of the open slope, there is a [cafe] 8:00-22:00(L.O.21:30) that travels around the world. We designed main building of a shrine in a primitive the interior for their Tokyo version of form of roofing and pillars. The gentle is one of the few districts the project. The idea is contrasting to slope takes your body gradually to the in Tokyo that best retains historic that of a conventional school in a fixed highest point, and through the shrine, townscape. The project was a renovation location. We expressed the students’ we wanted to create a sense of liberation of a big warehouse of books located liberal atmosphere by using old material, in that natural precinct. The exterior of on top of Kagurazaka hill, for which we fabric (jute), pallet for forklift, which the main house is made of plain wood created a public space like a ground, all feel friendly and street-wise. in a lattice grid to control its relation together with a café and a shop. For spacing also, we removed the old with outside. The roofing is so-called We opened the house toward the static division of corridor and room, yamato-buki in steel plates, where street, and connected its first floor with and brought in the idea of Roji (side two sheets are arranged alternately. the crossing using an organic-shaped street) and (semi outdoor ve- wooden staircase, which expands just randa), more animated spaces, to realize like earth. The stairs diverge in the a relaxed connection between rooms. middle, and one leads up to the second Furniture was also down-to-earth, floor. We connected the town and modeled on a feel from Zabuton the warehouse, the ground and the (floor cushion) or (straw mat). architecture, the past and the present. By translating sense of using them into the modern context, we did away with the strict image of old schools. 35 TOSHIMA CITY HALL 36 TECCHAN 37 M2

City hall Yakitori-ya restaurant Ceremony hall 2-45-1, Minamiikebukuro, Hamonika-yokocho, 1-1-2, Kichijoji- 2-4-27, Kinuta, Setagaya-ku, 157-0073 Toyoshima-ku, 171-0022 honcho, Musashino-shi, 180-0004 +81 3 3749 0983 +81 3 3981 1186 +81 422 20 5950 OPEN HOURS: 15:00-23:00 The M2 Building, located along The design theme for this museum in the Tokyo Ring Road 8 on the edge of center of Tokyo consisted of adopting a The project took place in Kichijoji (one Tokyo, was created as a design labora- unique roof design to blend the interior of Tokyo’s suburban towns)’s Harmonica tory for an automobile manufacturer. space with the garden. The interior display Yokochi, a wondrous bystreet that still The building is a chaotic mix of fragments space was made integral with the garden retains the atmosphere of black-market made using various architectural styles, by providing large glass openings in an stalls during the post-World War II period. materials and scales. This collection of attempt to merge the garden, building We designed the interior for a small Yaki- fragments was intentionally created in and artwork. Surrounded by a verdant tori bar that sits on the edge of the street. order to integrate these elements while garden and featuring a bamboo lined It is mostly made of recycled materials. accelerating and highlighting them. Of approach, the focus was to create We applied recycled LAN cables, which particular note are the hollow Ionian spiritual art space that provides a respite we call Mojamoja ‒ to describe its shaggy, style column, antennae by the Russian from the hustle and bustle of the city. wooly look ‒ and what is called acrylic architect Ivan Leonidov and sound insula- ball (left-over melted acrylic byproduct tion panels for the expressway which are pieces) to everything from interior polymerized in a threadless manner. materials to furniture. As the result, some It was later converted amazing interior emerged, where form into a funeral home while retaining becomes invisible and only materiality almost the entire original design. and various colors appear as if floating in the air. It also came to match well with the wall painting by Teruhiko Yumura. TAMAGAWA TAKASHIMAYA TAMAGAWA TAKASHIMAYA FOOD AND AGRICULTURE MUSEUM MURAI MASANARI ART MUSEUM 38 39 S.C. MAIN BUILDING PILOTI 40 MARRONIER COURT 41

Museum and Labolatory Shopping center Shopping center Museum 2-4-28, Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, 158-0098 3-17-1, Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, 158-870 2-27-5, Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, 158-8701 1-6-12, Nakamachi, +81 3 5477 4033 +81 3 3709 2222 +81 3 3709 2222 Setagaya-ku, 158-0091 OPEN HOURS:APR-NOV 10:00-17:00 OPEN HOURS: OPEN HOURS: 10:00-21:00 +81 3 3704 9588（ ONLY SUNDAY） (entrance closed at 16:30), [department store] 10:00-20:00 OPEN HOURS: by appointment only DEC-MAR 10:00-16:30 [specialty store] 10:00-21:00 The main theme for the Northwest （Please mail a name, address, a phone (entrance closed at 16:00), Wing of the Tamagawa Takashimaya number, and a visit hope day with a CLOSED ON MONDAY, HOLIDAY A pedestrian arcade was added to department store is green. We built “soft double postal card by two weeks） AND MONTH END TUESDAY the mid-rise wing of the Tamagawa green architecture” that consists of FRI and SUN on MAR-NOV Takashimaya department store in an various types of greenery planted in a 11:00-13:00, 14：00-16：00 This university museum is designed for attempt to provide a soft connection façade made only from stainless steel a new age and is open to local residents. between the city and the building. mesh that is bent to give it strength As implied by the name, this museum The display space, experimental space and Aluminum sheets with a thickness of so that no steel beams are required. was created for the artist Murai Masanari café are organically integrated, fostering 6mm were individually cut out with The greenery consists of various plants (1905-1999), who was a pioneer in the natural interaction between people that varying curves, and were then con- that bloom at different times of the year, field of modernism painting in Japan. live in the area and the researchers. The nected together with thin steel beams including Hedera, Caroline Jasmine, The 60-year-old wood home located in row of Zelkova trees in Baji Equestrian Park in order to build a soft arcade that has Asiatic Jasmine and Blue Passion Flower. a residential district on the outskirts of in front of the site and museum are joined an organic form. Planter boxes were These “green eaves” provide a gentle Tokyo built in the 1940s was renovated together by means of vertical louvers installed beneath the arcade which will expression that has been absent from into an art museum. The small room made from Ashino stone. Selection of soon become a “green cave”, providing commercial architecture up until now. that Murai Masanari used as a studio the material was based on the theme of a pleasant three-dimensional walkway. was preserved in the state it was by aging. A natural material that beautifully covering its exterior in a large box, with changes color over time (Ashino stone the gap between the large box and has high absorptivity and a soft texture) small box being used as display space. was used with the objective of creat- Old materials from parts of the house ing “biological architecture” befitting that were dismantled were used for the Tokyo University of Agriculture. the exterior walls in an attempt to merge old time with new time. TEIKYO UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY TAKAOSANGUCHI STATION 4242 SCHOOL 43

Elmentary school Station 1254-6,Wada, Tama-shi, 206-8561 2241, Takaomachi, Hachioji-shi, 193-0844 +81 42 357 5577 +81 42 661 6825

All schoolhouses in Japan used to The project was an entire makeover of the be made from wood. Many children building of Takao Sanguchi station, using learned in the warmth and softness of a grand roof made of wood. Mount Takao space created with wood. I too studied is worshipped as a sacred ground in the in a wooden schoolhouse, and cannot west of Tokyo. The roof here functions as forget the things I experienced. a boundary between the secular world and the holy place, represented also by the railroad as a modern infrastructure and a big natural environment. The platform was also freshly designed with wood, equipped with a lighting system that got a clue from some special lantern of this district. The soft and warm light from the platform guides the train pas- sengers to the different world outside.

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