DDAA / DDAA LAB

Daisuke Motogi

• Founder of DDAA and DDAA LAB / Member of a creative association CEKAI / Manager of shared space Happa
• Born in Saitama, Japan in 1981. After graduating from Musashino Art University in 2004, he joined to Schemata Architects. In 2010, he established his own architectural and design practice DDAA. In 2019, he established R&D organization DDAA LAB with Mistletoe Inc.; a Collective Impact Community that advocates a new style of business through startup support, to solve social challenges. In 2021, he participated in the Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - Venice Biennale. In 2021-2023, he was a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts.

DDAA / DDAA LAB Staff

[Project Manager]

Riku Murai

Born in Ishikawa, Japan in 1993. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2016. After graduating from the master’s course, Department of Architecture, School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, joined DDAA / DDAA LAB in 2019.

Works in charge

• - Mitateru-phose: Let's Change Perspectives! “Let’s Rename It!”
• - Tamagawa Takashimaya S.C. West bldg.Street/Food Court “P.”
• - Tamagawa Takashimaya S.C. South Hall 3F Gathering Space
• - 0 Club
• - MUJI for Public Space in Maebashi〈Ultra-Thin Store〉Exhibition: Hackability of the Architectural Process as Envisioned by MUJI and DDAA LAB
• - Massif
• - Fragile Joints
• - IM MEN「FULFILL」
• - Kyoto Takashimaya S.C. T8
• - SHKKDDAA
• - HIROPPA
• - Maruhiro flagship store + OPEN-END
• - The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion?
• - The Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition –La Biennale di Venezia

[Team Leader]

Yuhei Yagi

Born in Kagawa, Japan. After graduating from the Department of Architecture, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University in 2019, he joined DDAA / DDAA LAB in 2020.

Works in charge

• - 0 Club
• - sukima Osaka
• - WABARA LABORATORY TOKYO
• - TRANSLATE atama edition #02 Yui Takada × Daisuke Motogi_Round Trip

Yurika Mantoku

Born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1995. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University in 2020, and completed the master’s program at Yokohama National University Y-GSC in 2022. She joined DDAA / DDAA LAB in 2021.

Works in charge

• - Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min
• - sukima Fukuoka
• - NOT A HOTEL ANYWHERE
• - PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE MONTHLY COLORS：APRIL

Taiki Nakamura

Born in Saitama in 1996. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science in 2020. After graduation from the Master’s Program in Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, joined DDAA / DDAA LAB in 2022.

Works in charge

• - Tamagawa Takashimaya S.C. West bldg.Street/Food Court “P.”
• - KOKUYO DIG
• - Tamagawa Takashimaya S.C. South Hall 3F Gathering Space
• - Fragile Joints
• - Kyoto Takashimaya S.C. T8
• - SHKKDDAA

[Content Planner&Editor]

Soyoka Tsuji

[Design Staff]

Ayaka Takahashi

Takuya Miyawaki

Yui Yokoi

Wu Xiaoting

Haruki Nagaike

Makoto Kusumoto

[Back Office]

Misaki Taki