Grace Residência by Satoshi Kurosaki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Ouro in Design de Arquitetura, Edifícios e Estruturas Competition Category.
OuroArquitetura· 2025
Grace Residência
Client: APOLLO Architects & Associates Co., Ltd.
A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Arquitetura Category
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The Design
About Grace Residência
Grace é uma pequena residência com estrutura em madeira para uma família de três pessoas, situada em um terreno à beira do rio nos arredores de Tóquio. A casa foi concebida para um estilo de vida de trabalho em casa. Armários, eletrodomésticos de cozinha e outros elementos funcionais são embutidos nas paredes para reforçar a unidade e a continuidade do espaço longo e estreito. Os ambientes privativos ocupam o pavimento térreo, enquanto o pavimento superior é um único espaço aberto sob um telhado de duas águas, com caibros aparentes e iluminação indireta. Uma varanda frontal envidraçada, com beirais profundos, cria a transição entre trabalho e lazer.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
Grace Residência conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que Grace Residência seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Grace Residência cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A key design challenge was assimilating contradictory elements such as work/leisure, interior/exterior, and private/public in order to achieve that harmonious lifestyle within a limited space. In contrast to private areas such as the master bedroom and child’s bedroom on the first floor, the second floor consists of a single open room. The front balcony, a glassed-in intermediary space with deep eaves, plays an especially important role in transitioning between work and leisure. The furniture on the balcony has a similar aesthetic to that inside the house, which creates a sense of continuity, while the one-way glass blocks visibility from the road but lets in natural scenery, resulting in a uniquely comfortable atmosphere.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Principal Use : Private housing
Structure : Timber
Site Area: 133.70m2
Total Floor Area : 106.16m2（49.69m2 /1F, 56.47m2 /2F) - Tags
- GRACE, APOLLO Architects & Associates, House, Residence, Residencial,Architecture, Japan
- Production Technology
- Exterior Finish : Galvalume, Elastic Lysince Spray
Floor : Tile Flooring, Walnut Flooring
Wall : Wallpaper
Ceiling : Wallpaper, Spruce Pine Fir (SPF), Lauan Plywood, Walnut Lighting : LED - Research
- Enclosing all functional elements within wall storage units allowed us to eliminate the visual noise of excess objects and enhance concentration on work. Meanwhile, the exposed rafters of the gable roof with indirect lighting set into them make this second-floor space both unusual and relaxing. Perhaps this design approach, which takes smallness not as a minus but as a plus in terms of coziness and comfort, will be even more sought after in the post-Covid 19 era.
- Inspiration
- This small wood-framed residence for a family of three takes advantage of the riverside views from its lot on the outskirts of Tokyo. Designed to cater to a work-from-home lifestyle, the storage, kitchen appliances, and other functional features are built into the walls to enhance unity and continuity in the long, narrow space. The result is a home where daily life coexists comfortably with work.
- Project Duration
- Design Period : March 2019 - August 2019
Construction Period : December 2019 - March 2021 - Team Members
- Satoshi Kurosaki
- Image Credits
- Photography : Masao Nishikawa
Videographer : Seiya Aoki
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