Yokohama Aoba
Yokohama Aoba Housing by Shin Takamatsu and Kei Tamai is a winner of the 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Yokohama Aoba 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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This project creates a home that integrates nature into urban living. Designed by renowned architect Shin Takamatsu, the focus is on living harmoniously with the sky. The pentagonal plot features a central courtyard that connects all rooms, allowing residents to feel linked to the sky. A double Mobius strip design, with a staircase and hallway, creates a loop, offering flexibility for family activities. This design supports diverse scenarios, adapting to the changing needs of the residents.
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Yokohama Aoba by Shin Takamatsu and Kei Tamai
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Yokohama Aoba Housing
Yokohama Aoba 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. Yokohama Aoba 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. Yokohama Aoba is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
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Shin Takamatsu and Kei Tamai
In Japan's urban areas, the population has begun to decline and we are now in an era where there are too many houses, and even though this will continue to progress, unnecessary densification continues. If we hold out for a while now, we can maintain this favorable environment into the future. Now that we have moved from an era of expanding towns to an era of shrinking towns, carefully constructing each house will lead to a beautiful town. Building homes that lead to the future is our social contribution.
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Sky Mission
The grounds are limited, but the sky is limitless. The concept is to use the sky to create a bright and spacious space. When you look up from the courtyard, you can see the sky all your own.
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