AirSpace Tokyo by Beige Architecture & Proces2

Beige Architecture, in collaboration with Proces2, covered the AirSpace Tokyo with a layer of artificial vegetation.

The building, located in the Kitamagome Ota-ku district, is a four story multi-family dwelling unit with professional photography studios.

The exterior building skin is conceived as a thin interstitial environment, which articulated densities of the porous and open-celled meshwork are layered in response to the inner workings of the building’s program.

AirSpace is a zone where the artificial blends with nature: sunlight is refracted along its metallic surfaces; rainwater is channeled away from exterior walkways via capillary action; and interior views are shielded behind its variegated and foliage-like cover.

Sakura House by Mount Fuji Architects Studio

The Sakura house is a home office for a couple in a residential neighborhood in Meguro, Tokyo. Mount Fuji Architects Studio separate internal and external atmosphere with thin, transparent membranes, creating a sense of freedom and openness.

They created a forest made of lace-like steel with holes punched out in a floral pattern, that filters light like sunshine through foliage.

C-1 House by Curiosity Inc

Curiosity Inc conceived the C-1 house, located in Tokyo, as a design product in which architecture, furnishings and equipment blend into a single program.
They created a central glass box on three levels, surrounded by a ribbon on three sides, a sort of geometric spiral in which to organize the path of ascent, marking the relationship between closed and open segments of the facades.
Total white is used for the facade finish, while fight wood floors characterize the essential geometric composition of the rigorous sequences of interiors, with sliding full-height glazed dividers.
The custom furnishings are designed to complement the figure of rooms, underlining the philosophy of the whole, in which every action and movement is defined and controlled by the design of the space, which creates a balance between speed and rhythm of everyday life.

Shibuya-ku House by Yuko Nagayama

The house, designed by Yuko Nagayama, is built on a long, narrow plot measuring 6,5 meters by 20 meters and is surrounding by tall buildings that cast shadows over it throughout the day.
The design attempts to resolve the problem of the lack of natural light entering the building by inserting a triangular courtyard on the first floor, which divides the long building in two. Inside the house, the visual continuity is varied because the whole space plays with two types of perception: the real and the visual.