BOOLEAN (TOKYO UNIVERSITY TETSUMON CAFE) by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This is an interior designed project for a café space located at the side of the entrance of Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Building in the University of Tokyo.
Holes overlapping each other makes the place feel more open as if there were floating spheres passing through the wall and ceiling, and framed scenery through the hole provides people a new perspective from which to view everyday life.
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HOUSE IN KOHOKU by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This site is located in a quiet residential region reclaimed on a hill of Yokohama. With neighboring houses lined very close together, this flag-shaped site meets a road at a verge of no more than 3 meters in width.
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Y150 NISSAN PAVILION by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
Using Air as a Material
The NISSAN Y150 Dream Front pavilion was designed as part of the EXPO Y150 initiative commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Port of Yokohama.
"Stemming from Nissan’s vision for a future with clean air, our concept aimed to create a generous form of expression by allowing light and signs of presence to permeate the surroundings and by using air as a material itself." Read More...
Spinning Objects by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This is a renovation project for a hotel fixture showroom. The showroom displays a huge amount of goods and if the numbers are ever increased, the space is designed to be spatially and visually pleasing.
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A Design of exhibition and communication campaign of Spain Emotion. The colorful exhibition shows more than 50 products of Spanish design during Tokyo Designer's Week.
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Showroom by Héctor Serrano Studio for the leading Bathroom brand Roca
The space shows the results of the International Design Contest, Jump the Gap 2009 at 100% Design London.
Touch the water and the content starts: making the "water" vibrate with the help of an visual illusion.
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S Clinic + Residence by Office of Kenji Tagashira
The S Clinic was not the easiest project in the world to construct as it’s located in the core of Osaka. As it’s facing the national road, there’s a great number of traffic existing in this area. The streets are lined with big and small stores, banks and medical facilities, and innumerable signboards are placed out miscellaneously. A disorderly row of buildings along the street is formed with them.
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEEKEND HOUSE by Shin Ohori, Architect of General Design co.,ltd. A request from the client, a photographer, was to build a space where light and shadow interplay beautifully.
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Tomoko Murata was born 1973, in Osaka, Japan. She was impressed by history and the possibilities that are involved in architectural space. Therefore, early in life, she began to study architecure by visiting old and contemporary buildings. In her school days, she liked to explore the old temples of Kyoto. Today, she leads architecture studio, UZU, together with Tetsuya Matsui.
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Treasury General of the Hérault, MONTPELLIER, France by Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion - N+B Architects The main stake in this operation is to create within an architectural envelope the 70s, the contemporary working environment and to bring a quality of space answering the current needs.
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The pavilion’s design (designed by SLOT Studio) is born from the idea of representing Mexico through its traditional elements which haven’t been exploited in these kinds of fairs. The proposal scheme is centered around the idea of creating a green space within the expo which at the same time represents our preoccupation to offer a better life standard for cities through the recovery of green areas rather than creating a protagonist building.
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Smithfield menswear cardboard shop, designed and constructed by Peter Masters of Burnt Toast Designs.
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