from Wallpaper

” Hiroshi Sambuichi`s ideas on making architecture are as far removed from those of his Tokyo contemporaries as the location of his Hiroshima-based office. With his latest project, a house for a couple and their three children, Sambuichi sets an example for the proper use of natural energy sources, showing that good design is first and foremost all about getting the balance between the building and the earth, right.

Sambuichi has always been committed to studying extensively the local climate of each project’s location, before developing the design, and this often involves on-site observations that can take up to an entire year. This is followed by careful elaboration of the results into shapes and spaces made out of high-quality natural materials like Japanese cypress, chestnut wood and crushed stone; a procedure which justifies his growing reputation for producing indigenous architecture, strongly linked with the local landscape, a rarity in-between the concrete examples of modern Japan.”

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