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Company name
WAKUWORKS Co.,Ltd.
Location
5119 Yaho, Kunitachi City, Tokyo
186-0011map
Contact
TEL：+81 (0)42-505-7126
MAIL：mail@wakuworks.jp
Permits/licenses
Tokyo Governor’s Permit (General-5) No.157042
First Class Architect Office (Tokyo Governor’s Registration No.64808)
Managing architect
Tomonori Waku
(first-class architect registration No. 330733)
We provide the following services for the people and communities, in the public and private sector
  • Architectural design, construction, and other civil engineering services
  • Earthworks, landscaping, and development of gardens/ parks
  • Research, planning and advisory services: environmental, regional, watershed, and urban
  • Operations and management of facilities, parks, green spaces, gardens, and other community spaces
  • Education, training, and human resource development

Staff profiles

Tomonari Waku

Representative Director /
First Class Architect

Tomonari Waku

Representative Director / First Class Architect

Tomonori Waku was born in 1979 in Hino City, Tokyo. A graduate of Tokyo Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Engineering Department of Architecture, he founded Wakuworks in 2005. From 2017 to 2020 Waku was also a Managing Director of the Mori no Gakko Earth Regeneration Technology Research Institute (https://daichisaisei.net/).

Select Lectures / Events

2024
Basic design for the plaza in front of the south exit of Kunitachi Station Workshop and social experiment "Kunitachi Ekihiro University" Talk guest
2023
MC, Komae City Waterside Raku School, Environmental Restoration Workshop
2023
Special Lecturer, Meiji University, Faculty of Science and Engineering
2022
MC, Environmental regeneration workshop at Keedo Kaisho, Tama City, Tokyo
2022
Guest speaker, Mishimasha, Kyoto, “Schools that create places for learning,” roundtable discussion
2021
Guest Speaker (online), Disaster Prevention x Forest Creation! - Wisdom and techniques that citizens can put into practice for a society that coexists with nature
2017
Guest lecturer, Tokyo, “Green Renovation Course”
2017
Panel discussion speaker, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, “Future Conference Forum, Green Town Development in TOKYO 2017, Green makes the town interesting!”
2014
Guest lecturer, Kunitachi City, Tokyo, Nonowa talk session
2014
Talk show appearance, Hyogo, commemorating the publication of “Tamba Sasayama: A tour of old folk houses”
2012
Lecturer, Tokyo, Shibuya University
2011
Guest Speaker, Akyurize Beauty Products, “Forest Raku School Radio”

And many more

Shun Sato
Shun Sato

Managing Director / Landscape Architect

Shun Sato was born in 1979 in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture. A graduate of Nihon University’s College of Bioresource Science, starting in 2004 he trained as a horticulturalist in Kamakura and Kyoto, and then founded and managed the gardening and landscaping company Ueshun. From 2017 to 2020, alongside Tomonori Waku, he was a Managing Director of the Mori no Gakko Earth Regeneration Technology Research Institute (https://daichisaisei.net/). In 2021 he joined Wakuworks as a Managing Director.

Select Lectures / Events

2024
Hinohara Village, Tokyo - School of the Earth
Hinohara Village, Tokyo - Recommendations for learning
2023
Guest Speaker, “17th Anniversary Green Drinks Tokyo- Cultivating Life”
2022
MC, Karuizawa Town, Nagano, Wind Mowing WS @ Kazekoshi Gakuen
2022
Discussant, Ogawamachi, Saitama, Love Farmers Conference,
2022
Creator, Kyoto, Garden WS @ Millet Cafe
2022
Lecturer, Hinohara Village, Tokyo, Chikyuno School
2022
Organizer, Ogawa Town, Saitama, regeneration of a grain field
2021
Organizer, Sagamihara City, Tokyo/Sagaminomori, Mountain Trail WS
2021
Designer, Hinohara Village, Tokyo, MOKKINOMORI Composting Toilet
2021
Creator, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto, Wind House Project (deer fence/ wind toilet)
2021
Organizer, Higashikurume City, Tokyo, Forest Planting WS @ Hibarigaoka HALUM
2020
Organizer, Ogawa Town, Saitama, regeneration of a grain field
2019
Organizer, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto, solar roof making WS @tomtom natural market/dd>
2019
Organizer, Ogawamachi, Saitama, Love Farmers Conference

And many more

Shizuka Miyazaki
Shizuka Miyazaki

Managing Director / General Affairs

Miyazaki Shizuka was born in 1980 in Kokubunji City, Tokyo. A graduate of the Department of Education, Faculty of Human and Sociology, Japan Women's University, from 2002 to 2021 she worked at a Shogakukan Group company, followed by work in the USA, and later, in a nature and education business for children. From 2021 to 2023: she worked in the Earth Regeneration Kanto-Koshinetsu Secretariat, and she joined Wakuworks as Managing Director in 2023.

staff

awards

  • Media coverage and published works

    2024
    Architectural magazine "Jutaku Kenchiku" No. 506
    Feature article "Arranging your home and garden"
    Building a home connected to the garden "Yaboroji", "House in Fuchu Honmachi", "Regenerating the culture of Satoyama farming"
    2024
    Ikeda Corporation Ltd., Public Relations Magazine ”ikeco” vol. 45
    Feature article”Building a home in harmony with nature”
    2023
    Architectural Magazine No. 442, New Architecture Housing Special Feature: The real thrill of wooden construction “Yakushima House”LINK
    2023
    Kyodo News Serial feature article, “Regeneration of the climate”
  • 受賞歴 / 書籍掲載 イメージ

  • Media coverage and published works

    2022
    Asahi Shimbun, 10/27, Bon Marche, “Can you hear the earth?” Special featureLINK
    2022
    Architectural Magazine No.496, Residential Architecture/ Home and Environment, "House in Yakushima"No.496LINK2022-12LINK
    2021
    Architectural Magazine No.489, Residential Architecture/ From mountains to homes, “Hinohara Village House” special featureNo.489LINK2021-10LINK
    2021
    Culture Magazine Vol.1, Soil Mag, “Building a home with an awareness of the soil environment”LINK
    2014
    Sotokoto No. 183, "House and garden where people gather", Yaboroji special featureLINK
  • 受賞歴 / 書籍掲載 イメージ

  • Media coverage and published works

    2011
    Living No. 39, "Small field and kitchen", Yaboroji special featureLINK
    2010
    “Eco+waza ” Vol. 10, Natural House Project, Special Feature
    2009
    Living No. 28, Natural House Project Special Feature
    2008
    Asahi Shimbun 09/17, Natural House Project Special Feature

    other

  • 受賞歴 / 書籍掲載 イメージ
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