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Satoshi Okada architects Inc.

Satoshi Okada architects Inc.

 pursues and realizes internationally highest quality designs in architecture. They are mostly based upon simplicity with sublimity even in warmhearted spaces for human activities and even spirituality in rich materiality and delicate details.e

Satoshi Okada architects Inc. is profoundly conscious of environmental contexts related to architecture. Building activities, on one hand, are nothing but destruction of whatever exists; nevertheless, all the more because of it, they have to compensate it by a beautiful gift of artifice more than before.

Satoshi Okada architects enables to realize any kind of building types, from a small house to a large complex building.

Satoshi Okada architects Inc. has a flexible mind and attitude to client's requests; but mostly so far, they are categorized into two types as follows: one is seeking for simple and decent designs securing an eternal beauty; the other is for avant-garde design representing contemporariness of our age.

Satoshi Okada architects Inc. is confident of executing architecture of beauty and function with comfort in any direction.

SATOSHI OKADA

(Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, born 1962), architect, Ph.D.

After graduated from GSAPP, Columbia University in 1989, he became a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University under Prof. Kenneth Frampton, National Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Fellow of artists, and finally established Satoshi Okada architects in Tokyo, 1995.

Okada is also Associate Professor of Architectural Design & Theory at the Graduate School of Architecture, Chiba University, Japan. Since 2002, he has lectured at several academies and architect societies in Europe, USA, and Russia. He was awarded the Grand-prix at both Dedalo Minosse International Prize (Italy) and International Architecture Prize titled "Present of Future" (Russia) in 2006, International Architecture Award at Chicago Athenaeum (USA) in 2007, 2008, and 2010; and the Gold Prize at Design for Asia Award (Hong Kong) in 2009.

His works has been published in numerous books and magazines around the world, including Casabella 688 (2001-), 702, 713, 734, 738, 743, 756, and 771. In 2009, the monograph Satoshi Okada - i miei progetti la mia architettura was published from Electa architettura, Milano.

Okada has also designed furniture, lighting, and hardware. In 2007, "titanium" - lounge chair totally made of titanium - was published for merchandise from arti, a furniture company in Tokyo.

SATOSHI OKADA ARCHITECTS

Satoshi Okada architects Inc. was founded by Arch. Satoshi Okada in Tokyo in 1995. For these fifteen years, major works have been globally published in books, magazines, and TV programs, over two hundred in total. In 2009, the achievement was crystallized into the monograph, Satoshi Okada - i miei progetti la mia architettura (introduction by Francesco Dal Co) was published from Electa architettura, Milano.

Satoshi Okada architects Inc. is now located in the City of Kunitachi, identified as one of the most beautiful towns in both culture and green, in Tokyo. All of the working staff is selected to super-excellent architects who share the same spirit and sensitivity for design. Under the concept and design direction proposed by Satoshi Okada, each senior architect is responsible for working on each single project at one time with numerous discussions among Okada and other related professionals thoroughly from the initial design stage to all the supervising processes during construction towards each building completion; which, in fact, has enabled to realize buildings in the highest quality.

Visualizacion Digital -- Casa en Wakabadai de Satoshi Okada

House in Wakabadai

As an architect and historian as well, I believe that: “one can explain something good with reason but cannot explain beauty with reason; one can create something good with reason but cannot create beauty with reason; and beauty can create reason but reason cannot create beauty

Is a small residence with a building area of less than 66 sqm. The client is a young couple in their mid-thirties. Their main request was to have “a house that is attractive and cool.” When I asked them of some specific imageries, they would simply answer “its hard to put into words so we leave it up to you.”

Certain things are just so attractive that verbal expression is suspended and left powerless. Whenever people encounter such things, the body automatically responds earlier than making logic for words. As a matter of fact, I myself have been captured by the curious power of such attraction, ever since my involvement in the design of ”villa man-bow” in 1997. In my quest for architecture as an existence that takes the teeth out of logic, I named the nature of this mysterious attraction “intensity of architecture.” And this house is one attempt in such practice.

Wakabadai is the last of the development areas in Tama New Town. It is situated on the periphery of a countryside in its way to urbanization. The site is located at the end of a blind alley, 4-meter-wide dogleg private road, connected to the main street. It is bordered by a river on its south side, which offers a pleasant view over the hills of rich greens on the other side. However, the plot has attracted no buyers and been abandoned for a long time for its reputation for the weak ground due to its proximity to the river and for its inconvenient location set far back from the main street. Adjacent on the west is a two-storied private house inhabited by an old couple; on the north a two-storied apartment building of 8 households; and on the east a small crop field.

The project started out with considering the movements of automobiles within the site. Two cars had to be parked under a roof by tucking the car from the font and switching back inside the site, as it was one absolute requirement presented by the client who loves cars. Most of the ground area of 116 sqm was occupied by the cars. The small remaining area became the core, housing the entrance, staircase, and storage. This is how the large pilotis of this small house came about.

LOCATION: Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Pref.

FUNCTION: residence
SIZE: 119.15 sqm.
STRUCTURE: Wooden construction
COMPLETION: 2006

ARQUITECT: Satoshi Okada
PROJECT TEAM: Isao Kato, Shunichi Kasajima
STRUCTURAL DESIGNER: Hirokazu Toki
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Tsukasa kenchiku co.