Eastern Design Office

Profile of Eastern Design Office, headquartered in Japan. Six projects submitted by Eastern Design Office have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: [L-R] Taiyo Jinno and Anna Nakamura – © Eastern Design Office

Principals

Anna Nakamura
Taiyo Jinno

Brief description

“EASTERN” has the meaning of “beginning” attached to it. The east is the direction where the sun rises and begins a new day. The east is the beginning of the sun, the beginning of light. The dawn of night, that also comes from the east. It is hope.

Again, “EASTERN” also has the meaning of architects from East Asia. As an architect from the East, I want to spread the quality of eastern architecture beyond Japan and to the world.

Published projects

: Slit Court by Eastern Design Office A hidden potentiality of an inner court. The essence of this architecture lies in an inner court. The site is at Sumizome, Fushimi, Kyoto. It is a small town...

: Mon Factory/House by Eastern Design Office The holes are lined up on a cross shape. The hole is made on the architecture like the perforated line. This architecture is "House with Crest". A light that...

: Villa Saitan by Eastern Design Office The site is in Nishioji-hachijo, Kyoto. From the main street we enter into a covert place along an alley of 4 meters in width. This construction is a...

: Strips by Eastern Design Office Random curves sculptured into the façade serve as a random structure. 41.13m on the long side, 13.13m on the short side, and 7m in height, providing 12...

: Slit House by Eastern Design Office This house is made "only" by the slits. there is no window. The wall of 105m lengths with 60 slits surround the site realizes the architectural space in this...

: Horizontal House by Eastern Design Office Do they really live beyond this... The mountain village appears when having started a little anxious so. The Horizontal House is here. This house does not look...