Migishi Atelier
1934
Function: house and studio
Structure: wood
This early work of Japanese wooden modernist architecture was built for the painter couple Kotaro and Setsuko Migishi. Despite undergoing multiple renovations, it still retains its original essence. The 5-meter-wide, 4-meter-high opening on the south side of the studio was ambitiously large for a wooden building at the time. It was initially composed of a grid of fixed wooden sash windows, but these were later replaced with double-sliding aluminum sash windows. There was also another floor-to-ceiling opening on the north side of the studio that continued onto the ceiling, forming a skylight. A later renovation led to the window being interiorized and the skylight being sealed, but the glazed surface still preserves the scale of the opening. In 2021, GROUP remade the former entrance’s lattice window, making it rotatable to better fit its current context while retaining its original appearance.
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