STUDIO MONAKA is an architectural design office founded in Kyoto by Hiroshi Okayama, Shuhei Morita and Kenichiro Nakamoto. We have opened an office in Okinawa as well, and are currently operating out of two locations.
We wish to create spaces where people of diverse origins and backgrounds can meet and come together. This is something that is always on our minds when we design. We strive to create architecture that functions as a backdrop to the day-to-day activities of all people.
Such spaces must be designed to be inclusive and welcoming of regional characteristics as well as open to the personalities of people who enter them. Furthermore, in order to enable and bring about diverse forms of day-to-day “living and being”, a functional system that allows for that must also be created. We feel that it is our duty to not only design structures, but to formulate these systems or mechanisms as well, and to coordinate closely with our clients in bringing ideas to life.
We believe this to be an essential attitude for architects in the coming future, as our times and society continue to rapidly transform.
