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YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.

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Japan

Hearth Architects

Hearth Architects, a well-known Japanese architectural firm, was founded in 2016 by architect Yoshitaka Kuga. He is good at coordinating the relationship between architecture and nature, and skillfully integrates the concept of "nature" into the daily home environment.

Yoshitaka Kuga was born in 1982 in Koga City, Shiga Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Engineering, Kansai University in 2006. He believes, "a simple space close to man and nature, into the poetry of daily life." In order to be called truly and spiritually rich.

Yoshitaka Kuga's design always uses comfortable streamline and simple plane layout, and the space takes the cross section as the basic consideration, presenting a simple and dignified space appearance, without complex, redundant external decoration. Because of this, he created a series of deep Spaces filled with nature on the site and space, and endowed them with richness and life.

He often uses materials derived from nature to ensure the close connection between home and nature. The minimalist design style allows him to create "rich spiritual allowance" for each family while ensuring the functionality of the family and discarding unnecessary things.

Yoshitaka Kuga sees each project as a unique single whole, and responds to the characteristics of the site by tailoring the design to local conditions. After repeated deliberation and deliberation, the indoor and outdoor Spaces are connected in an integrated way to create different dimensional Spaces that meet the various needs of the family and give residents a richer, multi-level living experience while enhancing the aesthetic.

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    Design Works

    • Happy Home

      This single family house on a flat lot has excellent views due to its geographical advantage.
    • Kumiyama House

      While ensuring the necessary functions, it removes the superfluous material and creates a kind of "artistic conception of white space", which together constitute the deep scene and quality space of nature.
    • Fukakusa House

      This project is a house planned on a narrow plot of land facing a green forest in a traditional residential area.
    • Okino House

      This project is a 'retirement home' for a person who used to live in a high-rise flat in the city.
    • Nangou House

      This project is a detached house project planned on a site with different heights. 
    • Ikoma House

      The project is a reconstruction of a house that was built in a quiet residential area.
    • Mikumo House

      This project was planned and laid out in such a way as to say, “the house was built for watching the rows of blooming cherry blossom trees for just two weeks”.
    • Tsuchiyama House

      By daringly planning the building itself as a cross shape and by designing the exterior so that the façade is visible from every angle.
    • Yasu House

      The lot is located in an old residential quarter at the foot of mountains named “Ohmi-fuji”.The house is between a park and a river.
    • Sakae House

      This project is a single-family house on a site, where a part of a tenement house was separated and demolished.
    • Kizugawa House

      The house is in a new residential area,It's a quiet residential area.
    • Omihachiman House

      Hearth Architects has designed Omihachiman House, a House in a new residential district that was requested to add a room to a normal dwelling.
    • Hideout Gallery

      Hearth Architects hope the building is going to become a symbol of the town and be familiar to people blending into the nature.
    • Shoei House

      Hearth Architects design Shoei House embraces a thin plot and welcomes the nature of the surrounding environment.
    • Kusatsu House

      The client wanted a house with a gentle connection between the living room and the garden, and a small but separate Japanese-style room.
    • Kojyogaoka House

      This project started with the client’s keyword of “every family under one roof”.