We use the wisdom and techniques of the past to build environments where people and nature exist in harmony.
Wakuworks is an award-winning regenerative architecture firm founded by master architect Tomonori Waku
in 2005, and has active projects across Japan, from Hokkaido to Yakushima.

Wakuworks abides the principle that architectural design and nature must be in harmony
with one another to ensure beneficial and sustainable outcomes
for both people and the environments they rely upon for health and happiness.
Wakuworks goes beyond architectural design and seeks and uses local wisdom
to reconceptualize the modern relationship between structure and nature: the firm’s architects, engineers, permaculture specialists, and other artist-technicians design and create not only buildings,
but gardens and agroforestry projects which support and are integrated with both Wakuworks structures
and the land that hosts them.

Wakuworks works to restore the flow of air, water and energy in the artificial concrete landscapes
which constitute most modern human dwellings, individual and collective.
The firm’s principles of sustainability and integration mean that they prioritize sustainably sourced local materials and replant trees and other fauna relocated due to works.
For Wakuworks, this regenerative harmony supports a better human future.