Murakoshi
Murakoshi House by Hiroki Watanabe is a winner of the 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Murakoshi is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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An urban house integrating floodwaters into its design. This house with a monolithic facade and a drive-through garage with a high foundation is situated on a pentagonal corner lot that is expected to be crowded with pedestrians. The design features a planar and cross-sectional openness to allow light and wind to flow into the interior while also taking into account the convenience of people and cars while deflecting water. This work explores a simple and sensible approach to future urban housing with a focus on natural disasters.
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Murakoshi by Hiroki Watanabe
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House
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2023.
Silver Winner
Murakoshi House
Murakoshi is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Murakoshi is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Murakoshi is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Hiroki Watanabe
With experience gained from working at both a house manufacturer and design firm, this individual has designed numerous homes and vacation homes in Tokyo, earning multiple international awards. Their strength lies in capturing the unique appeal of each location and creating rich living spaces from different perspectives. Their approach involves discovering the charm that can only be found in a particular place, identifying invisible connections, and leveraging existing elements. They prioritize qualities that cannot be measured by numbers, simplicity, clarity, and logical design. They are committed to exploring potential that has yet to be discovered, achieving a sense of purposeful and aesthetically pleasing design that resonates with nature and society.
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S Design Farm
S Design Farm aims to achieve a balance between convenience and unquantifiable goodness in their designs. S Design Farm prioritizes a thorough study of the thermal environment's performance in their design process. They recently completed a HEAT20/G2 grade house with a UA value of 0.37, which provides warmth during severe winters with just five minutes of floor heating in the morning. S Design Farm hopes to create a distinctive lifestyle by integrating the quantifiable convenience of their designs with the intangible qualities of the land, light, and wind, which are strengths of architects.
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