Bokuyado Nishijin is a minimalist guest house located in Kyoto, Japan, designed by Endo Shojiro Design and td-Atelier. The architects renovated the wooden two-story house in Kyoto intoto a complex facility (guest house, cafe and owner’s residence). Existing buildings were rebuilt and rebuilt many times, so they had a strange shape. Once they organized the structure and added structure reinforcement, they greatly reduced the first floor part of the building. By making an alley within, wind, light, and sight line shifted toward the back of the site. The alley is overflowing with greenery, a space where tourists and locals gather. Travelers cross the cafe´ in the alley and get to the entrance of the guest house. There is a small shrine in the courtyard. This is a shrine worshiped in the former building. Elements such as alleys, large and small cubes, small steps, walls, and greens inside and outside the building remind the townscape. It is such a space to walk around townscape.

Photography by Matsumura Kohei