Adapting Traditional Machiya to a Contemporary Lifestyle

This chapter presents an analysis of adaptations of machiya, traditional Japanese townhouses, in Kyoto. The study aims to develop models for future reuse of machiya that combine contemporary lifestyles and traditional characteristics, in order to present possibilities for the preservation of machiya. The models for reuse are based on an...

Culture is in the Details

During earlier stays in Japan, in 2012 and 2014, I was struck by the great attention to detail, in the scale of the buildings, the streetscape, as well as in the clothing and the presentation of food. Life seems to be an accumulation of independent details that sometimes contrast considerably with one another. A city is made up of buildings, and...

Kyoto Design Lab.: The tangible and the intangible of the Machiya House

Report accompanied the Kyoto Heritage & Machyia Exhibition regarding a reflection on students work (MSc2 studio) and research at the Kyoto Insitute of Technology in the Kyoto Design Lab. 2015-2016 by Zijlstra, Spoormans and Hein.