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Morizo Architectural Design Studio

First-class registered architect’s office
Rieko Yoshino-Uchida

Rieko Yoshino-Uchida

Business Description
  • First-class registered architect’s office
  • Design and supervision of residences, stores and facilities.
  • Planning and designing of gardens, tearooms and furniture.
  • Seismic diagnosis and reinforcement design of timber constructions
  • Seismic diagnosis and reinforcement planning through traditional architecture
Business Description
  • First-class registered architect’s office: Osaka Governor’s Reg ハ21638
  • First-class registered architect: (Ministry) No. 322171, Rieko Yoshino

Profile

After working in an architectural design office

1996

Started up the Rieko Uchida Design Office

1997

Went on 1-year architectural tour of Europe

2006

Changed name of design office to Office Morizo-

2007

Studied timber from experiences gained at tree farms

2009

Studied timber traditional structural calculation

2011

Launched “LLP Yoshino Yamamachi” company, connecting mountain and urban communities

2014

Received a Tea Name from Urasenke and became a tea instructor

2015

Launched the Utsuwa Project (ongoing)

2016

Co-authored the textbook The Maximum Load-bearing Calculation
Served as a lecturer on structural calculation (JSCA Kansai)

2017

Received the Wood Design Award for the Utsuwa Project

2018

Developing and disseminating the Utsuwa Project 2.0,
Germany in preparation to open the Morizo office, and business trip to Europe

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2018 - Morizo-Berlin Office

locate a new office in Berlin.

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2019 - Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

Symposium and excursion program "Timber Industry/Timber Construction" for delegation of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Japanese Embassy Berlin from 01-03 May 2019

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2019 - Japanese Traditional Design in Germany

Use, strength, size... It was a continuing process of trial and error.

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2020 - UTSUWA project@Berlin

UTSUWA project started in Berlin!! Miraculously, we met and the six of us came together.

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2020 - Model Exhibition

We held the first exhibition of WASHITSU(Japanese-style room models) in Hamburg.

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2020 - Model Exhibition

2nd exhibition in Berlin.

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2020 - Online Courses

I held a three-hour online course with an interpreter, ando also included a simple model workshop.

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2020 - UTSUWA project@Berlin

We created UTSUWA Prototype 01!!

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2020 - UTSUWA project@Berlin

Collaboration Project ─ 2020/12/10〜2020/12/13 balkan bazar

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2020 - UTSUWA project@Berlin

Collaboration Project ─ 2020/12/12 UTSUWA×Tattoo

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2021 - UTSUWA project@Berlin

We presented UTSUWA prototype 01.

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2021 - Model Exhibition

3rd exhibition in Berlin, and also held a course on WASHITSU(Japanese-style room models).

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2021 - Japan-Germany Forum

We hosted an online forum for UTSUWA project between Japan and Germany.

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2021 - Model Exhibition

4th exhibition in Berlin.

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Works - New construction (JA Page)

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Works - Renovation (JA Page)

house, garden, old house, apartment, building, company building... etc

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Works - Renovation

Hotel renovation design in Germany 2022

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Morizo Architectural Design Studio
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Notable achievements

Design and supervision of new detached houses
  • U residence (three-story timber construction)
  • N residence (two-story timber construction)
  • A residence (two-story timber construction)
  • I residence (two-story timber construction)
  • O residence (two-story timber construction)
  • W residence (two-story timber construction)
  • K residence (two-story timber construction)
  • S residence (two-story timber construction)
  • Y residence (two-story timber construction)
  • A residence (two-story timber construction)
  • F residence (two-story timber construction)
  • W residence (two-story timber construction)
  • N residence (two-story timber construction)
  • S residence (two-story timber construction)
  • H residence (two-story timber construction)
  • W residence (two-story timber construction)
  • Design and supervision of other new constructions
Renovations and conversions
  • Renovations of Wedding venue P
  • Renovations of condominium Y
  • Renovations of a pre-war house
  • Seismic retrofitting of a pre-war tenement H
  • Double-family home conversion of H residence
  • Renovations of office D’s entrance area
  • Renovations of day-service centre O
  • Structural renovations of a timber construction tenement M
  • Structural renovations of reinforced concrete I residence
  • Renovations of earthen storehouse H residenc
  • Renovations of timber salon Y
  • Extension of the approach to the garden of I residence.
  • Structural renovations of reinforced concrete condominium S
  • Structural renovations of reinforced concrete condominium M
  • Renovations of steel construction S residence.
Design and supervision of other new constructions
  • N residence (two-story timber construction for two families)
  • N Clinic N residence (two-story steel construction)
  • H residence (three-story reinforced concrete cooperative)
  • T church (two-story timber construction)
  • Show home (two-story timber construction)
Seismic designs and designs for subsidised projects
  • Seismic diagnosis, reinforcement design and supervision of tenement H
  • Seismic diagnosis, reinforcement design and supervision of townhouse S
  • Seismic diagnosis and reinforcement design of Noh theatre Y
  • Landscaping design and supervision of car park gate for trading company K
  • Landscaping design and supervision of building T
  • Seismic diagnosis, reinforcement design and supervision of N residence