Waterproofing – Lath – Waterproofing – Steel netting – Plaster – Carbon coating – Stucco 杉板に杉色を塗る

A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 5

Konnichiwa. Today we placed solid cedar boards underneath the eave soffit outside (where the roof edges are stretching). In this project, we paint all the wooden parts that is exposed to the elements with the Continue reading “Waterproofing – Lath – Waterproofing – Steel netting – Plaster – Carbon coating – Stucco 杉板に杉色を塗る”

Base of the walls 何層もの壁

A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 4

Hi all, I hope you are all having a good weekend.

Again this is a post about the other day when we’ve done some base for the waterproofing work etc. Like we did for the roof, we worked on the vent layer in the walls so that it prevents the heat from outside from going inside and the moisture in the walls have somewhere to escape to.

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A house that feels good itself feels good for humans too コンビニのカッパを着せないで

A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 3

Apologies for the not-up-to-date post, today’s post is about the day we had the roofing done on. The material we used is called galvalume steel plates that laid on horizontally by the roofers.

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Happy New Year 謹賀新年

Hello everyone!

I hope you all have started the new year with good health. I am so happy and grateful that my blog was read by so many people from all over the world. I’ve had quite a few inquiries and questions from outside of Japan which can mean that my aim to spread the Japanese carpentry to the world has been realising little by little.

I’ll keep my best effort to write about the greatness of Japanese architecture and culture as well as to keep learning others.

Thank you very much!!!

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my caligraphy

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New and Improved 梁の見える家

A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 2

Hello there, we are happy to announce the completion of the Tatekata. The pine beams we worked on manually (not pre-cut materials) have fit perfectly with each other as well. Very happy.

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Go back to basics 木工用ボンドも使いません

A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 1

Hello there! We have started a new project; A newly built 2-storey timber frame house. As it is mentioned earlier, we won’t use any “new building materials” *1 such as glued laminated timer, plywood, veneer covering, exterior siding or glass wool.

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Completion   完成しました!

Tea Ceremony Room in Fujisawa / 藤沢市 【茶室と水屋】Part 2

The work we have been working on since last October has finally come to the end. It is a conversion from a bedroom to a tea ceremony room. (four and a half Tatami size) As the children grew up and left the house, our client decided to have a room for their hobby; Tea ceremony. (Here is the Part 1)

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