Economy, functionality and privacy were the primary drivers in the design of this sixth floor home office studio. Meticulously detailed millwork provides ample storage, making this small-footprint apartment extremely efficient. A bedroom loft creates space for a roomy walk-in closet below, while stair risers conceal a series of built-in drawers. Every inch of the space has been effectively exploited. JPDA worked closely with the client and a demanding...
This first building (the second is to be built later this year) is part of a newly built neighbourhood where we designed a number of individual dwellings earlier. The design for the apartment buildings departs from a reinterpretation of typical commercial warehouses. Fully clad in aluminium, both buildings distinguish themselves by their vivid colour and specific treatment of the facades.
In 2009, this concept for an apartment complex was the winning entry by Slovenian OFIS Arhitekti in an invited competition. The main request was to develop 100 quality housing units with terraces surrounded by green. The concept proposes three enclosed islands starting from layout of typical house with garden in the area. Apartment village is formed from individual houses with gardens and furthermore imposed on top of each other. In this way, green...
The project was assigned to Mount Fuji Architects Studio in 2007; the architects where to asked to design a weekend house in a site which was rather untouched by the human hand. The intact wilderness of the land on mount Izu-san was covered with deciduous broad-leaved trees such as cherry trees and Japanese oaks. The architects “saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge” of the mountain. They didn’t want to create elaborate...