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#55 ULTRA STUDIO (JP), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD
Episode 39
Friday, 17 April, 2026
This episode, we travel to Tokyo, Japan, to meet Yuji Mukaiyama, Alyssa Ueno and Yushi Sasada, founders of ULTRA STUDIO, established in 2018. As a young practice, they work from within contradiction; not to resolve it too quickly, but to let it shape the project.“The client always wants something contradictory,” they say. Between one demand and another, they search for a bridge. “We try to move from problem A to B, this is our design process and part of the identity of the result.” From these tensions, “we always find some kind of abstract form.The process begins with making. “In the beginning, we do a lot of models, some forms are very abstract.” Connections often emerge by coincidence. “The decision is not made by a master sketch; it’s something inside the process.” Keywords are shared, consensus slowly forms, and drawings evolve. “We are developing a new kind of drawing; not plan, section, or elevation, but something closer to an expanded elevation”. I’ll keep an eye on that. Who is with me?Their projects resist linear explanation. “We don’t have a step-by-step process. We jump in and understand it almost backwards.” What matters, in the end, is perception. “Architectural form should expand how people see - not only designers, but users and viewers.”Guests: Yuji Mukaiyama + Alyssa Ueno + Yushi Sasada (Tokyo, Japan)Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.comSpotify: Arquitetura Entre VistasInstagram: @arquiteturaentrevistas
