Articles by Miwa Negoro

Scarlet Pavilion is a lightweight, reversible hospitality project situated within the protected riverside corridor of the Perfume River in Hue, where strict regulations preserve the natural landscape. In this context, the project embraces these constraints as the foundation of its architectural identity. Designed as a second home and a boutique retreat for a young couple, the pavilion adopts a reversible system that can be assembled, disassembled, and returned to its original state, minimizing long-term impact on the site.

Messa House is a 350-square-metre retail space in Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed as a place to slow down, offering a quieter alternative to typical fast-paced retail environments. It focuses on how a person actually moves through and senses architecture, letting form, proportion, and material quietly shape the atmosphere instead of competing for attention.

Forest Toilet A is located in the forest between TieHua Road and the railway prairie in the Taitung Central District. Considering the rich railway textures surrounding the Old Station, the design aims to maintain the horizontal landscape of the existing strip of forest while meeting the diverse needs of various activities.

The project is located on the suburban outskirts of Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, on a parcel of land left behind during suburban development. As surrounding plots were subdivided and sold, the site became landlocked and excluded from the formal market. Rather than resolving these constraints, the project reinterprets them as latent potential.

The light of Jeju is remarkably unique—piercing, mutable, and ever-shifting between winds, clouds, rain, and mist. The Light Museum is an attempt to capture this ephemeral nature of Jeju’s light through architecture. It is not a reproduction of nature’s forms, but an experimental structure that allows the sensations of nature to permeate through space.

K-Beauty continues to grow, with increasing global and domestic interest. In particular, visitors to Korea now engage with everyday beauty experiences—such as hair salons, dermatology clinics, and beauty brand pop-ups—as key parts of their travel itineraries. Beauty is no longer just a service, but has become a distinct form of travel experience. This shift extends beyond international visitors, reflecting a broader cultural trend in which people seek to make each day feel meaningful, accumulating moments that enrich the density of everyday life.

Resilience and endurance were at the forefront of the minds of the family at Wings Way in Skene’s Creek. Having lost their original, much-loved, family home to fire, they needed the replacement design to provide a sense of safety and permanence that was missing from the fibre cement-clad seventies home that preceded it.

Resilience and endurance were at the forefront of the minds of the family at Wings Way in Skene’s Creek. Having lost their original, much-loved, family home to fire, they needed the replacement design to provide a sense of safety and permanence that was missing from the fibre cement-clad seventies home that preceded it.

Summerhill Village is a project that carefully crafts a community through design accessibility. It challenges conventional models of social housing by placing community, sustainability, and dignity at the centre of its design.