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a spiral of timber beams and steel frames tiny 40-sqm tokyo home (opens the original)
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House in Musashi-koyama by Tato Architects / Yo Shimada is a home for a family of four on a flag-shaped lot measuring less than 40 sqm in a dense residential district of Tokyo. Facing a large park to the north, the site was created by dividing a plot in two where a single, relatively small house had previously stood. Its limited dimensions presented a familiar challenge in Tokyo: how to accommodate a family home on increasingly subdivided urban land. The initial approach was to stack two full fl
tato architects suspends arc tent somewhere between a hammock and a campsite (opens the original)
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Tato Architects rethinks the familiar camping tent with Arc Tent, a lightweight shelter that behaves almost as much like a hammock as a place to sleep. Instead of resting directly on the terrain, its tubular equilateral triangle is suspended within a folded circular frame, raising the occupant slightly above the ground and allowing the structure to accommodate uneven outdoor surfaces. That suspension also gives Arc Tent its defining movement. The geometric structure gently swings as people climb
tato architects turns a former bank into a reflective cinema in kyoto (opens the original)
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After 55 years, Kyoto Minami Kaikan has moved into an unlikely new home: a former bank completed in 1993. For the cinema’s relocation and renovation, Tato Architects / Yo Shimada began with a deceptively simple observation. Unlike a monitor, a cinema screen does not emit an image but receives projected light and reflects it back toward its audience. The architects expanded this principle across the entire building, introducing meshes, metallic surfaces and reflective finishes that turn the archi
giant blue-green semicircular table by tato architects reorganizes kyoto apartment (opens the original)
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In a vacant unit within a municipal housing complex in Kyoto, a 3.6 m-diameter semicircular table becomes the central organizing element of the living space. Designed by Tato Architects – Yo Shimada as part of a renovation initiative involving eight universities across Kyoto, the project transforms vacant units in an aging housing estate into company housing for welfare-sector workers. Each participating architecture program is responsible for renovating one unit, with the broader initiative aim
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