Kamakura007

Architectural Practices of Misalignment

This house-studio for a pair of avant-garde fashion designers explores how stylistic operations from fashion—shifting, displacing, undoing—can be translated into architecture. Finishing materials were ordered in exact quantities, prompting on-site improvisation in response to minor shortages or surpluses. Corners and junctions were resolved through deliberate misalignment, departing from customary detailing while simultaneously reducing material waste. The spatial composition follows this same operation: functional cores with distinct finishes are stitched into a continuous one-room volume. Drawn from the logic of fashion, this strategy lends critical depth to the relationship between architecture and material, prompting a reconsideration of spatial uniformity and normative design conventions.

Program: Residential
Project Type: New build
Structural type: Timber structure
Site area: 140.52 sqm
Floor area: 106.01 sqm
Completion: September 2024
Design: Teitakusubako
Structure: Hiraiwa structural office
Construction: Hayama komuten
Photography: Kentaro Nemoto, Shota Nakayama