Art & Design
The texture of an old Japanese home.
The warmth of modern insulation.
Design that invites you to settle in.
A new chapter
for a traditional village house.
Shushi architects preserved the texture of Atema’s old timber and earthen walls while creating a calm, contemporary interior. External insulation helps retain warmth through the snowy winter, keeping the character of the rooms visible and the house comfortable to return to.
Doors, fittings and furniture reuse materials recovered during the restoration of Atema and Ueda. This careful approach connects the house’s past with the daily pleasures of a stay: sitting by a window, gathering for dinner and finding a quiet corner of your own.
The small main house, built in the Meiji era, was extended repeatedly during the Showa era.
The oldest part of the building is where the kitchen is today.
An old house in a once-poor farming village. Many of its timbers had been reused.
The upper floor. Can you tell which part is which today?
The ground-floor dining room had a small sunken hearth.
This house was also repaired from its foundations and sill beams, then brought back to life with modern external insulation.
Designed by shushi architects,
with a close connection to the landscape
and the culture of the village.
shushi architects
Shuichiro Yoshida & Shizuka Ishikawa
Shuichiro Yoshida and Shizuka Ishikawa work together as shushi architects, with bases in Tokyo and Tokushima. Their buildings respond to local landscapes and culture, bringing quiet discoveries into everyday life through materials, light and space. Their work includes Kamiyama Marugoto College of Design, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, Mori no Sauna and the House in Bizan.