1Through an awareness of condition, the repeated realities of everyday life in the city provide images for my architecture. The following are the characteristics of this awareness1. 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 model produced by the inevitably subjective system of collage.2. Homogeneity. Most domestic urban landscaping in Japan consists of a nondescript collection of smoothly mortared walls and colored steel sheet roofing. The business districts are made up of vertical and horizontal extensions of homogeneous grids. To match the colorlessness of both types of urban landscape, urban life itself is flat and monotonous. Graphics. Gradually, the visual element of the city becomes overwhelming and the olfactory and physical elements fade away. For example, even as brick becomes increasingly popular in Japanese urban buildings, it takes the form of a membrane that only projects the sentimental and emotional nature of the material. Furthermore, nowadays, sophisticated printing techniques make it possible to cover wood, stone, fabric or plastic sheets with subtle representations that represent nothing more than the visual nature of the brick.4. Rhetoric. Rhetoric fills our environment, which is itself full of signs of various kinds. All this creates a world that has nothing to do with the real world. Things surround us that have been imprinted with rhetoric due to the various media. True and false have exchanged places to the point that it is no longer possible to distinguish one from the other.5. Rhythm. A city and all its parts have characteristic rhythms. As long as a...... middle of paper ......on some elements. In the Kamiwada house, once this step was taken, the relations referred to in point 2 were added. The design proceeds with attention dedicated to the relations referred to in points 3 and 4. In connection with 3, the relations between the structural system and the elements are determined; and some elements must play a structural role. The integration of elements is completed in a process where feedback constantly occurs between considerations of points 1 to 4. Coincidentally, in both Nakano and Kamiwada's house, the design was flat, one-story. Adding more layers would undoubtedly make the project more complicated and require new shapes and elements; but I am convinced that I will remain less interested in the actual construction of the space of meaning than in the integration of the elements resulting from the dismantling of that space.