"The Future To Be – Evolution of Digital Culture," created by Lenovo Group and UCCA Lab, presents a journey of technological exploration through five chapters: "Future Overture," "Surging Waves," "New Digital Life," "Everything and Everywhere," and "Our Future Selves." With a space of 1190 square meters, Yoshihiko Seki, the founder & director of Ki...
Project name
「The Future To Be」Exhibition Space Design: Exploring Boundaries and Relationships
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Ruijing Photo Beijing
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Simin Lin, Che Zeyu
Design year
2023.7-2023.10
The project is in the west district of Beijing and is a duplex apartment. The owner lives here with her family of four. In addition, the elders often visit and stay for a while. The different interests, preferences, and living habits of family members determine this 300 square meter duplex apartment, which needs to accommodate diverse lifestyles, a...
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Typology
Residential › House
Kunming, Yunnan Province, is a livable city with comfortable climatic and natural ecology, which attracts many sojourners to settle down. The newly completed mid-hill residence by KiKi ARCHi is in Kunming's famous golf resort. The owner is a golf enthusiast, and he hopes that this house can provide rest space and take care of the needs of each fami...
Project name
House Rooted in the Soil
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Ruijing Photo Beijing
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Material
Diatom mud-Shikoku / Wood Floor-HISTEP / Microcement-Shikoku
Typology
Residential › House
This townhouse in Shenzhen used to be a completely different look. The colonial-style and complicated decoration that was popular in a certain era in China, is no longer fit for current life. The owner of the house, a rational and logical lawyer, after experiencing the ‘past tense’ living experience for a short time, decided to invite KiKi ARCHi to...
Project name
Breathing House
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Eiichi Kano / Tony Tan
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Design year
2021.08.01 – 2022.01.01
Completion year
2023.01.01
Material
Diatom mud-Shikoku / Tile-Terrazzo / Facade-stainless mes
Typology
Residential › House
KiKi ARCHi has completed a house in Beijing that blends tradition with modernity. It combines the owner's classical collection hobby with the design concept that conforms to the contemporary lifestyle. By replanning and adjusting the structure, layout, daylight, and material texture of the house, it demonstrates the ‘sense of ritual’ and ‘inclusive...
Project name
Classic Meets Modern
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
ZHANYING Studio
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Collaborators
Plant Design: WILD-SPACE
Material
Microcement-Gobbetto / Tile-Terrazzo / Kitchen-TJM kitchenhouse / Aluminum pane
Typology
Residential › House
‘DOMA’ is a space form in traditional Japanese architecture. It is usually connected to the outdoor part of the house and is lower than the rest of the interior space. In the past, ‘DOMA’ can be used to place agricultural tools, and even used as a small workplace by the craftsmen. In modern residential buildings, ‘DOMA’ has been changed to an entry...
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi + TAKiBI
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Akihiko Tochinai, Kiyo Sato
Material
Pine, Concrete, Steel, Cork Board, Cement Siding Board, FRP
Typology
Residential › House
The Taoist temple Tongbai Palace is located in Tiantai county, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, which is named after Tiantai Mountain. In Chinese ancient books, it was mentioned that ‘There are 8 layers of the mountain, everywhere you look, the scenery is similar.
Project name
KONG_Fangzhang Building in Tongbai Palace
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Location
Tiantai county, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China
Photography
Ruijing-PhotoBeijing
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, ChenXin, Akihiko Tochinai (TAKiBI)
Material
Cedarwood, granite, concrete, steel plate
Typology
Cultural Gallery, Temple
Changping District is 30km to the north of Beijing, the scenery of which is completely different from that of an international city. KiKi ARCHi has completed a renovation project within 15 months there. Carrying the happy time of its owner’s childhood in the country, it seeks not the concrete object of memory, but the memory itself.
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Eiichi Kano, PRphoto
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Yoshihiko Seki, Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Collaborators
Plant Design: WILD - SCAPE
Interior design
KiKi ARCHi
Civil engineer
Sun Corporation
Lighting
ChenYi Lighting. Co., Ltd.
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray
Construction
Sun Corporation
Material
Micro cement-Gobbetto, Diatom mud-Shikoku, Kitchen-TJM kitchenhouse
Typology
Residential › House
