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Project name: Tokyo Matsuya Unity Mar 2007 Architects: Hugo Kohno / Hugo Kohno Architects Associates Location city: Higashiueno, Taitou-ku, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Matsuya Unity Modern architecture aiming at rediscovering traditional techniques and decorative culture in the Edo period. This design rediscovers the traditional techniques and decorative use of Japanese paper from the Edo period. Edo-karakami is the thick paper, originally imported from China, is patterned with ground oyster shell and mica powders and is commonly used to cover sliding doors. 'Tokyo Matsuya' is a well-established company that has continued to hand-make Edo-karakami, traditional fusuma paper and Japanese traditional paper, using traditional methods. The company has also been engraving wooden blocks since the Edo period and have been involved in wholesale publishing since that time. At the lower level of the building, 'seeing, knowing, and buying' is communicated upon entering the show room, and at the higher level, 'living, using, and experiencing' is conveyed for multiple housing complexes. Japanese paper from the Edo period lined sliding doors and wall spiced up in modern taste. Sliding doors can be opened to refine to space. Shoji (paper sliding door) applied to each home. Natural light shines through. The above also relates to hanging gardens, lighting, and ventilation at the middle level. According to an old saying, 'a sense of homogeneity with nature is a characteristic of Japanese traditional buildings' where communal areas are linked and consolidated homogeneously through the architecture. Even in the interior it is possible to sense the light, wind, and natural scenery of the external spaces of this high-rise building. White wall is painted with the Japanese traditional color haijiro (ash white). Even though the appearance is modern, Japanese motifs such as louvers reminiscent of the sudare (reed screen) are adopt. Hugo Kohno Tokyo Matsuya Unity Photographers Photo 01,02,06,07 : Isao Imbe Photo 04 : Hiroshi Ueda Photo 05 : Akihisa Miyashita Photo 03,08 : Hugo Kohno Tokyo Buildings HUGO KOHONO Architect Associates Tokyo Matsuya Unity #1101 Higashi Ueno 6-1-3 Taito-ku Tokyo JAPAN tel 81+3-5948-7320 fax 81+3-5948-7321 e-mail uchiumi@hugo-arc.com url www.hugo-arc.com Japanese Architects New Tokyo house I Japanese Office Buildings Buildings / photos for the Tokyo Matsuya Unity Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Tokyo Matsuya Unity Building : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt			Buildings by this architect: n/a Buildings in the area: Shin-Marunouchi Building Crystal brick house Tokyo school Parabola house Grosvenor Place Kamizono-cho Tokyo home Saint-Gobain building Tokyo offices Tokyo clothes store Key Links: Tokyo Houses Architecture Studios Contemporary Interiors Office Buildings Japanese Architecture Tokyo Architects Tokyo Architecture