Japan-based S Design Farm Co. has an extensive list of services, and offers the qualities that they believe architects are best at: “goodness of land, light, and wind”. Shikauchi Takeshi is the representative Director and president of the firm and has led the team to the Luxury Lifestyle Awards victory in 2022, winning in the category of Best Luxury Villa Architecture for Waterfall Villa in Japan.

At S Design Farm, they focus on design considerations while calculating the performance of thermal environments. They believe that the coexistence of “convenience” and “advantages that cannot be expressed in numbers” is important in the future of house building, and they design them every day.

S Design Farm’s list of services includes:

• Architecture/interior planning, design, and supervision
• Furniture/product planning, design, and production
• Share office planning, design, and operation

Designing a building can be difficult. Should convenience be prioritized? Of course, the more convenient the better, but Shikauchi Takeshi believes in the coexistence of  “convenience” and “somewhat inconvenient but not quantifiable goodness”. He believes that a space like a blank space that is not overly intentional is very important – it’s not just a functional room where you can sleep, eat, and get dressed.

Waterfall Villa, the award-winning project, is located in Okinawa, Japan. It was initiated as a ‘weekend house’ on the 17^th of November 2020 and completed on the 29^th of October 2021. Contributing design and site supervision, Shikauchi Takeshi and Watanabe Hiroki of S Design Farm created this ‘new build’, a villa in Okinawa, with the intention to “blindfold” the building on the ocean side while providing a “view” of the ocean. It is a unique premises with a gentle slope overlooking the sea and the sky surrounded by nature.

S Design Farm maintains that the experience in nature gives us the opportunity to enrich our hearts and emotions that we cannot get in our daily lives. They believe that the role of architecture created in a rich natural environment is to maximize the charm of the land and enhance the experience.

“We feel so lucky to have been selected for this award, thank you Luxury Lifestyle Awards! We believe that the world of architecture and interior design is changing, and we’re excited to be a part of it, and bring in some of the changes ourselves”, says Shikauchi Takeshi.

Learn more about S Design Farm via their website: http://s-designfarm.co.jp/