Working Model
Working Model
Enhancing Architects’ Quality of Life Through Locality
Teitakusubako, based in Kamakura—a city with a slower rhythm distinct from Tokyo—pursues a new working model where everyday life and architectural practice seamlessly overlap. By deliberately restricting its scope to a defined region, the office minimizes the burdens of travel and coordination for site visits and meetings, enabling more time for essential tasks such as design and dialogue. With many projects located only minutes away by bicycle, the act of engaging with a site becomes part of daily routines. This deep commitment to locality sustains design rigor while allowing greater flexibility for family life and childcare, positioning architecture not only as a profession rooted in place but also as a socially meaningful model with lower environmental impact, distinct from metropolitan modes of practice.
Expanding the Potential of Local Architects Through a Collective
Teitakusubako is a collective of architects dedicated to the Kamakura, Zushi, and Hayama area. Its structure brings together core members—often senior architects balancing independent practice with collective work—direct members, typically younger practitioners gaining experience, and satellite partners who join from outside the region in resonance with the group’s vision. Each member contributes expertise and ideas from their own position, generating a dynamic exchange that opens design territories unattainable by individuals alone. Every project explicitly credits its contributors, ensuring that collective work becomes part of each architect’s professional record. This framework offers an attractive platform for freelance architects as well as emerging designers aspiring to future independence.
Team
Associate
Naoki Hayasaka
Residing in Kamakura
1984: Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa
2007: B.Arch, Shibaura Institute of Technology
2012: Joined Tetsushi Okada Architects
2014: Relocated to Paris
2014: ATELIER TANE TSUYOSHI ARCHITECTS
2017: Moved to Kamakura
2017: Founded Teitakusubako
Associate
Kazuto Nakamura
Residing in Southern Kanagawa
1993 Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
2016 B.A., Department of Environmental Design, Tama Art University
2016 Joined Toru Sakuma Architects
2024 Moved to Southern Kanagawa
2024 Joined Teitakusubako
Associate
Ryotaro Amamiya
Residing in Kamakura
1994 Born in Kamakura
2020 M.Arch, Kanagawa University, Department of Architecture
2020 Mitsubishi Jisho Home
2025 Returned to Kamakura
2025 Joined Teitakusubako
Associate
Hiroto Takesawa
1992 Raised in Iwate
2018 M.Arch, Kogakuin University, Department of Architecture
2019 Toru Kashihara Architects
2025 Joined Teitakusubako
External Advisor
Yuta Onoda
Residing in Fujisawa
1986 Born in Fujiidera, Osaka
2012 M.Arch, Shibaura Institute of Technology
2012 Joined Norihiko Dan and Associates
2014 Tezuka Architects
2019 Moved to Fujisawa, Kanagawa
2019 Founded +O design
2022 Joined Teitakusubako
2025 Appointed as Communication Advisor
External Advisor
Ryotaro Tateishi
Residing in Kamakura
1987 Born in Toyonaka, Osaka
2012 B.Arch, Musashino Art University
2013 Moved to Vienna, Austria
2013 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2015 M.Arch, Tokyo University of the Arts
2015 Atelier Atsushi Kitagawara Architects
2018 Junpei Matsushima Architects
2023 Kohei Kudo Architects
2025 Founded Ryotaro Tateishi Architects
2025 Moved to Kamakura, Kanagawa
2025 Appointed as Design Advisor
