How a mountaintop phone call, a coastal site, and quiet conviction shaped a retreat in Tottori Good design often begins with a feeling....

f there’s a thesis to IWADO BASE, it’s this: comfort doesn’t require spectacle. Sometimes, it just needs silence and shelter. In an era where most hospitality design leans toward thematic overstatement: tropical maximalism, urban brutalism, desert modernism… It’s rare to see a project that steps aside and lets place take precedence.

When you're making something meant to be touched, prayed with, held up to the light, you don’t cut corners. We've always believed in the value of manual labor, and this project reminded us exactly why.