Solo Go Hasegawa

One day in Villa Franja

 

After arriving on the top of the hill, Solo Go was welcoming the family with a sinuous wall, just behind olive trees. Once they entered, they opened all the windows and relaxed in a living space merged with the forest and embraced by the cliff. During the day, they were freely moving though the three niches of the house passing between trees and rocky masses. In the afternoon, they also enjoyed diving and refreshing in the pool filled up within the shapes of the cliff. After dinner, they decided to have a walk along the verdant and peaceful riverside, just beneath Villa Franja.

 

Born in 1977 in Saitama Prefecture (Japan). Lives and Works in Tokyo.

 

Go Hasegawa is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. Hasegawa graduated with a Master of Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002, after which he worked at Taira Nishizawa Architects before establishing Go Hasegawa & Associates in 2005.

 

He has taught as a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Academy of Architecture of Mendrision in Switzerland, Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway, and the University of California (Los Angeles) in the United States.

 

He has received a number of awards, including the 2008 Shinkenchiku Prize and the 2014 AR Design Vanguard. His first monograph “Go Hasewaga Works” was published by TOTO Publishers in 2012 and his most recent publication is “Go Hasewaga Conversations with European Architects”, a collection of interviews with six European architects (LIXIL Publisher, 2015). In 2015, he received his PhD in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.