Paper Plane Architecture — Est. 2010
Where silence
becomes space
We craft environments that breathe — grounded in the Japanese philosophy of Ma, the beauty of deliberate emptiness.
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Paper Plane Architecture — Est. 2010
We craft environments that breathe — grounded in the Japanese philosophy of Ma, the beauty of deliberate emptiness.
View Selected Work
Paper Plane is a Tokyo-founded, globally present architecture practice. We build from first principles — where material honesty, natural light, and intentional negative space take precedence over ornament.
Each project is a quiet conversation between structure and nature, informed by the Scandinavian love of functionality and the Japanese reverence for impermanence.
Residential · Kyoto, 2023
Kita House
Cultural · Oslo, 2023
Sora Pavilion
Hospitality · Hakone, 2022
Nami Retreat
We believe architecture should serve life without announcing itself. Materials are chosen for how they age, how they interact with rain and shadow, how they feel underfoot at 6am.
Japandi — the meeting of Japanese wabi-sabi and Scandinavian functionalism — is not a style for us. It is an ethic. A deep respect for the craftsperson's hand, the material's nature, and the inhabitant's quiet.
Every line we draw begins with a question: what can be removed?
