1Through an awareness of conditions, the repetitive realities of daily life in the city provide images for my architecture. Here are the characteristics of this consciousness1. Collage. Our image of the city is a highly fragmented assemblage of phenomena and experiences lacking continuity and mutual context between the pieces. The image itself is a pattern produced by the inevitably subjective system of collage.2. Homogeneity. Most of the Japanese urban landscape consists of an anonymous collection of colorless mortar walls and colored steel sheet roofs. The office districts are made up of vertical and horizontal extensions of homogeneous grids. To match the colorlessness of the two types of urban landscape, urban life itself is flat and monotonous.3. Chart. Little by little, the visual element of the city becomes overwhelming and the olfactory and physical elements disappear. For example, although brick is increasingly popular in Japanese urban buildings, it takes the form of a membrane that only projects the sentimental and emotional nature of the material. Additionally, today, sophisticated printing techniques make it possible to cover wood, stone, fabric or plastic sheets with fine representations representing nothing other than the visual nature of the brick.4. Rhetoric. Rhetoric fills our environment, itself filled with signs of all kinds. All this creates a world that has nothing to do with the real world. Things that have been tinged with rhetoric because of the different news media around us. True and false have changed places to the point that it is no longer possible to distinguish one from the other.5. Pace. A city and all its parts have characteristic rhythms. As long as a...... middle of paper ......on elements. In the Kamiwada house, once this step was completed, the relationships from point 2. above were added. Planning takes place paying particular attention to the relationships of points 3 and 4. In relation to point 3, the relationships between the structural system and the elements are determined; and certain elements must play a structural role. The integration of the elements occurs in a process during which constant feedback is given on the considerations of elements 1 to 4. Coincidentally, in the Nakano and Kamiwada houses, the design was a two-bedroom apartment. one floor. Adding more levels would likely make the design more complicated and require new shapes and elements; but I am convinced that I will remain less interested in the very construction of the space of meaning than in the integration of the elements resulting from the dismantling of this space..