Studio — Studio Kotorre

Studio

Studio Kotorre is a studio for interior design and architecture. We build on the knowledge of the old masters: on the golden ratio and on the three demands of Vitruvius. Firmitas, utilitas, venustas: strength, usefulness, and the beauty of Venus.

Tom Kobayashi

Architectural Designer

Tom Kobayashi is a German-Japanese architectural designer and researcher. His work joins perception-driven and data-informed methods — eye-tracking, environmental measurement, thermal comfort analysis — to design decisions, across practice in Europe and Japan. He studied at the Technical University of Munich, spent a year at the EPFL in Lausanne, and took his master's degree at TU Delft, where his graduation thesis on the retrofit of Japan's first high-rise office building was awarded cum laude. He has worked at Mount Fuji Architects Studio in Tokyo and at studio terrain in Munich, and at Munich he designed Quattro together with Tassilo de la Torre Schönborn.

Studies: Architecture B.A., Technische Universität München, 2020–2024 · EPFL Lausanne, 2022–2023
Master: M.Sc., TU Delft, 2024–2026 · graduation thesis cum laude
Practice: Mount Fuji Architects Studio, Tokyo · studio terrain, Munich · Falkenberg Architektur, Neuss
Research: Eye-tracking and environmental measurement, TU Delft and Tokyo · ceramic evaporative cooling panels
Publications: Journal manuscript on visual attention in the retrofit of Japan’s first high-rise office building, in preparation · “Datafication of health”, Theory Theses Collective Journal 4, TU Delft, 2025
Exhibited: Time·Space·Existence, Palazzo Mora, Venice, 2025 · Urban Fungus, TOTO Gallery·MA, Tokyo, 2024 · NOX TEMPUS, EPFL Lausanne, 2024
Work: Suzushisa · Breathe · Inbetween · TPMS-Cool · Dialogue · Quattro
Languages: German, Japanese, English, French, Spanish, Dutch

Tassilo de la Torre Schönborn

Architectural Designer

Tassilo de la Torre Schönborn is Spanish and German. He was born in 2002 in Santiago de Chile and went to school in Chile, Spain, Nicaragua, Belgium, Bolivia and Germany, finishing with the German Abitur at the German School of La Paz. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and spent a year at La Sapienza in Rome, in the master's course in restoration. He has restored historic stone buildings in Spain and Italy with his own hands: he led the restoration of the Casa Palacio de los Manrique in Atienza from the site, working with the building team by day and drawing in the evenings, and wrote LA OBRA, the book on those works. He photographs; in 2025 he travelled through Türkiye to study the architecture of antiquity, and he leads the expedition that is trying to save Kilayet Manastırı there, a stone monastery in Artvin. He holds that first-hand experience of how a building site works is what allows one to design something practical and respectful.

Based in: Madrid
Studies: Architecture B.A., Technische Universität München, 2020–2024 · La Sapienza, Rome, one year in the master's course in restoration, 2022–2023
On site: Restoration of historic stone buildings in Spain and Italy · site leadership, Atienza
Also: Photography · study trip through Türkiye, 2025 · expedition lead, Kilayet Manastırı
Work: Casa Palacio de los Manrique, Atienza · A01, Madrid · Kilayet Manastırı, Artvin · Quattro · Manufac(tree) · Leaving No Trace(s) · Surf school on the Walchensee · Studies
Publication: LA OBRA, 2025
Tools: Archicad · Rhino · Blender · SketchUp · Adobe Creative Suite · Affinity · DaVinci Resolve
Languages: German, Spanish, English, Italian, French

Kilayet ManastırıIn preparation · spring 2027

Casa Palacio de los ManriqueUnder construction · completion in spring 2027

Apartment refurbishmentUnder construction

Attic refurbishmentPlanned · construction pending