DA OSAKA Branch Tokyo / Reiichi Ikeda Design

DA-OSAKA, headquartered in Osaka, is a company specializing in interior construction for commercial premises. This project is for their Tokyo branch office. Located in Jinbou-cho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, where well known as "Town of Books" because of densely packed bookstores and vintage bookshops, and maDA-OSAKA, headquartered in Osaka, is a company specializing in interior construction for commercial premises. This project is for their Tokyo branch office.

This space no longer pursues the neatness and newness of the surface, but accepts the traces of time. The bareness, coarseness, and even a slight "dilapidation" are no longer regarded as defects, but become the most powerful expression of texture. It presents a kind of "unfinished" state, which is not repairing or decorating, but restoring the materials to their original form and letting them tell their own stories quietly.

The Lib Earth House Project aims to develop future housing models that embody principles of environmental sustainability and habitability. By utilizing construction-scale 3D printing technology, the project explores how buildings can be built exclusively from locally sourced, biodegradable materials, fostering long-term, harmonious habitation on Earth. The recently completed "Lib Earth House model b" is the second prototype realized under this initiative. This single-story experimental residence spans approximately 100 sqm and is constructed using 3D-printed earthen walls.

Located among the lush, rolling hills of Nocaima, Colombia, this small dwelling offers a contemporary, thoughtful, and sensitive reinterpretation of traditional rural architecture. The project revisits vernacular elements such as bamboo, sloping roofs, and open corridors, transforming them into intentional architectural resources that, while honoring their cultural, material, and environmental origins, also question them and establish new relationships with the landscape and climate.