Overlooking Puget Sound on Agate Pass, new construction. Concept: to create a ‘village’ with a rural Japanese farm feeling, looking out from behind a long stucco wall and appearing as if multiple structures were added to a compound over time. A natural result of this village architecture concept is the creation of a courtyard at…
1902 house, possibly a Sears Kit Home from that era. Concept: design a remodel to correct a renovation done by previous owners and to provide additional living space for Tom Walker while retaining original farmhouse integrity. Entire interior gutted and redesigned to fit the lifestyle of owner without seeming inappropriately ‘‘modernized’. Tom had always enjoyed…
Located in the high mountain town of Takayama, this small home sits reflecting in the clear water of the surrounding rice fields in spring and surrounded by steep, wooded mountains. For this guest house we proposed to our clients a fusion of traditional handcrafted Japanese spaces with western-style elements to insure the happiness and comfort of…
This home was designed to inspire the feeling of being inside of a whale similar to classic storybooks. The original Farm House was built in 1902, and remodeled by Lost Arts in 2007. For the second phase of the Tom Walker Farm House remodel, Tom requested the design of a new freestanding 3 car garage,…
An 1907 Indianola cabin previously abandoned for 8 years and in disrepair. Concept: Repair and modernize an old house while maintaining the feel of the old and classic Indianola summer cabins that are still numerous in this small beach community. We reinvented a falling-down porch as a new dining room and connected it to the original…
1896 farmhouse, formerly in great disrepair and abandoned; reinvented and resurrected by Lost Arts in close collaboration with an energetic young couple who are doing all of their own construction in planned, affordable phases. Previous owner started an ill-conceived remodel of the old house, poured perimeter foundation, ran out of money. Enter Nick and Morgan…
New Japanese residence on a wooded site with a view of the Japanese Alps. Concept includes introduction of progressive land-use and building siting ideas not typical in Japanese construction practice, and for us, a very important and desirable trend to encourage in Japan today. Lost Arts proposed that clients Toshiyuki and Keiko Matsubara maintain a…
Atelier Nico / Nico Sasaki
