For this project a moulding form coins the shape of space. According to this positive form, every space in the building alongside with its scenery is being created as the negative counterpart to it. Moulding forms are usually being filled with liquid metal in order to shape a certain kind of part or product.
The plot for ALICE is an extremely long rectangle, 3.8 m wide and 22 m deep. It is situated in the middle of a bustling shopping district that would seem completely unsatisfactory for a personal home. The client requested a “resort” here. With a pool, lush trees, and a blue sky above. In order to conceptualize this “resort”, I decided to use two contradicting methods at the same time, to “sever” the architecture from the commotion of the surroundings, and to boldly “connect” it thereto.
The part of “Mash/Room” is lucid in its abstraction of the architecture – two pairs of slightly displaced L-blocks, each pair set perpendicular to the other, and one set protectively guarding the other. Transposed to real life, incorporeal digital renderings materialise in the form of substantive concrete L-shaped structures, exponentially magnifying and making tangible the sense of space that initially could only be imagined.
A metaphor used in philosophy is “Mobius’s ring”. This involves taking a piece of tape which is black on one side and white on the other, and twisting the tape halfway and connecting the ends, to form a loop where the side that was black imperceptibly connects to the white side. The idea is to twist the thought that the front is normally black and the back is white, to create a metaphor for connecting and inverting the inside and outside.
Our design procedure is to expand a occasional “Coincidence”. ”Coincidence” this time is【cliff ground】 and 【the guitar】(client is the guitarist) The site is the cliff ground with the vertical interval of 3m. 【Place above】/【place below】 was allotted to 【real volume】/【fictional volume】. 【Real volume】 is made of galbarium plates with 20.000 stainless steel bolts. On the othere hand, 【Fictional volume】 is surrounded by transparent glass walls.
InLaforet, the landmark of Harajuku, a new shop of the E hyphen world gallery has been opened, in which the world view of AMO, the top fashion model of Zipper magazine, is materialized as a shop. Things that are associated with the word bonbon. The shop’s sweet façade reminds us of a sweet shop with chocolate and vanilla scents, and colorful confectioneries.
Main Materials: marble stone floor in black and white color. Maple wood wall. Ribbed plate with acrylic paint. Decoration wall papers. 100% Silk original rug.
The site is located in a typical Japanese crowded residential area, just middle between two stations near to Shibuya. The house of a young married couple is on a strip of land subdivided for sale (about 4m*16m). It adjoins two paths at north and south sides, and locates on a very old retaining wall which runs along the north path and forms 3.5m height cliff. The path were too narrow to comply the current regulations, so we needed removing a part of the wall so that it could be widened.
For Australian skin care brand Aesop, we planned the interior and exterior of the new store on Meiji Street in Shibuya. The store is located on the first floor of a three-storey building situated between two taller buildings; the space is long and slender – 2.6m in width, 7.8m in depth and 3.9m in maximum height. We aimed to work with these proportions to provide a welcoming and intimate space for communication with customers.
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