Casa Nano 2.0 Residency Tokyo
Casa Nano replaces the art residency’s original Japanese location in favour of a cedar and concrete home redesigned with Studio Wasabi Architecture.
Studio Wasabi Architecture and Satoshi Kawakami Architects have created a home and artist residency in Tokyo for Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, founder of the arts foundation Casa Wabi in Mexico.
Occupying a corner plot in the Sendagi district of Tokyo, Casa Nano is a renovation of a postwar house constructed in the late 1950s. "The house has a very simple facade system to protect the windows, a system called amado, where you can slide some metal windows and close them when there is a typhoon," said Studio Wasabi co-founder Rafael Balboa.
Studio Wasabi worked with Satoshi Kawakami Architects to completely revamp the interiors for use as an extension of the Casa Wabi artist residency in Puerto Escondido, Mexico or as a home for founder Bosco Sodi and his wife interior designer Lucia Corredor.
After sponsoring 13 Mexican artists in the original Casa Nano at another location, Sodi needed more space and decided to move the residency into a larger building.
Koganeyu Sento
Koganeyu Sento, a Public Bathhouse designed by Japanese Architect Jo Nagasaka hosts several hot pools, a bar and an overnight hotel for those too tired to go home after bathing.
Reversible Destiny Lofts
The Reversible Destiny Lofts is a residential apartment building by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, built in 2005, designed to stimulate the body through all senses.
Guide to Tokyo
From Metabolism Architecture Movement relics to Frank Lloyd Wright Elementary Schools, Religious Cult Headquarters, Edo-Period teachings, hidden masterpieces of an Aquascape Sensei and contemporary dwellings by Architecture Legends – the first part of this guide covers everything we have to share for the modern Architecture Hunter in Tokyo.
