Project REGOLITH CRAFT — Reimagining Vernacular Masonry for Lunar Habitats Project REGOLITH CRAFT explores how traditional masonry culture, especially in volcanic regions such as Rome, Syria, and the Canary Islands, can be reinterpreted for building permanent human habitats on the…
In the Japanese hot-spring city of Atami, more than a thousand years of onsen culture have shaped the landscape, once cherished as a retreat for shoguns and statesmen. Atami was also known as a prominent hanamachi—second only to Kyoto as…
Reimagining how we safely and comfortably linger in the city. Ongoing Research Extending Cool Scape from climate-responsive movement to the conditions of staying, Loiterable City asks not only whether people can walk through a place, but whether they can comfortably…
Shade-first walking routes for heat-safe cities Prototype under development built on Japan’s national open 3D city model, PLATEAU, integrating building and tree geometry for Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward as a living testbed for the Cool Scape application. Due to the effects…
Research Framework / In Development Loiterable City Sandbox is the next stage of the Cool Scape and Loiterable City research trajectory. It proposes a tangible, participatory system for bringing environmental, spatial, and behavioral information into urban-design scenario testing. The current…
At midnight, long after closing time, the storefront falls completely silent. The lights are out, the doors are locked, and yet—behind the glass of the show window—multiple human silhouettes begin to move. In the darkness, their shifting outlines create the…
Selected and Commissioned Artwork, Kobe Rokko Meets Art 2024 Storks is an artwork that invites viewers to remember the Oriental Stork, a bird that once thrived throughout Hyogo Prefecture, including the area that is now Kobe. The species disappeared as…
The site is a nuclear testing facility on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where the United States conducted experiments from the 1950s through the 1970s. Large amounts of radioactive contaminated soil and debris were buried here, and because the…
A card game for exploring strategies of revitalizing aging Japanese affordable housings Japan’s post-war housing estates (“danchi”) are now facing rapid aging, vacancies, and the erosion of local communities. Conventional regeneration is often discussed through master plans and top-down policy…
Atami City has been cherished as a hot spring resort since around the 10th century. Once blessed with rich nature and a historic landscape overlooking both the sea and mountains, it lost much of its natural beauty and cultural scenery…