Born in France in 1971. Emmanuelle Moureaux earned her architect’s licence in 1995 and moved to Tokyo in 1996. Inspired by the Japanese traditional sliding screens, Emmanuelle has been developing the concept of ‘Shikiri’, a colorful partition series which literally means “dividing space with colors” in English.

Photography by Mike Tonkin
Design by Tonkin Liu
On top of a warehouse in Shoreditch an empty roof overlooked the city. The new roof garden apartment is a six-bedroom family house with outdoor spaces that maximised the potentials of the site. The owners wanted a place for the family to grow that would bring life and greenery to the Shoreditch cityscape. As we green the city it becomes a desirable place for people to settle, where people settle the city in turn flourishes. The house is a barometer of the cycles of change, at the scale of the distant growing city, and the scale of the leaves.