(J) Hideyuki Yamashita graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1984, in Kazuo Shinohara's workshop, and then attended Peter Cook's courses at the Stadel Schule in Frankfurt. He founded Infagenda Inc. in Tokyo in 1999, and has been teaching as an associate professor at the Nagaoka Institute since 2000. In 1993, he developed the "Nested Cube in Process" concept--a structure within a structure. Form, here, thus becomes the result of different construction systems, dovetailed one within the other. His two latest house projects illustrate this concept well. In Tokyo, working in close collaboration with the engineer Alan Burden (Tokyo), H. Yamashita is building a concrete house whose longest façade is pierced by a cross-shaped split; the wide aperture made in the second floor is only made possible by the combination of a second structure which supports the upper floor as if it were a bridge. Again working with Alan Burden, he has designed TM House, another concrete edifice, currently under construction, in which the south façade can be completely opened as the result of a W-shaped load-bearing structure which links the ground and the roof. In these two examples, the post-and-beam structure and the system of non-load-bearing, sliding partitions certainly calls to mind traditional Japanese architecture and ushers in a relationship that is very open to the outside.

Hideyuki Yamashita, architect
Yamashita (Hideyuki) (1961)
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• TM House en construction