Stilleness
Stilleness Guest House by Sohei Obata is a winner of the 2026 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Stilleness is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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The constraints of the extremely small urban plot are overcome through a multi layered spatial configuration in the vertical direction. The texture of the roof tiles on the exterior walls and the lattice at the entrance function as delicate screens that block out the surrounding noise. Inside, the line of sight is controlled around the central courtyard, and traditional elements such as the Goemon bath and alcove are precisely incorporated into a sharp frame. The contrast of materials and the calculated flow of movement present a new style of Japanese living in contemporary urban spaces.
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Stilleness by Sohei Obata
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2026.
Bronze Winner
Stilleness Guest House
Stilleness is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Stilleness is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Stilleness splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Sohei Obata
Matsuo michihiro mainly designs villas and houses. and seems to embody the new value created by the relationship between housing and society and design. Pursue design quality while securing earthquake resistance and functionality. In order to realize a low carbon society in Japan, which is a country with many earthquakes, we have selected a wooden axis for the structure, and we are challenging the possibility of making wood of houses and large buildings with earthquake resistant performance secured.
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Advance Architect Co.,Ltd
Advance Architects, headed by Michihiro Matsuo, primarily designs villas and houses, embodying a new value created through the relationship between housing, society, and design. They pursue quality design while ensuring earthquake resistance and functionality. In Japan, a country prone to earthquakes, they are exploring the possibilities of wooden houses and large buildings that utilize wooden structural frames to ensure earthquake resistance, in order to realize a low-carbon society.
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