Tezuka Architects, Tokyo
www.tezuka-arch.com

 With spatial designs that are skillfully integrated with the outside environment, Takaharu Tezuka and Yui Tezuka a designs range from private houses to community buildings. Their most important works are; the Roof House, in which daily life expands onto the roof. Echigo Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science, which can be buried under 5m of snow. Fuji Kindergarten takes the form of a 200m-circumference oval-shaped roof space. In Woods of Net, 589 timber members are piled up to create a 320 cubic meter space to enclose the artwork.