Focus sur le travail du designer coréen Kay Heekyung Kim qui nous propose cet objet très surprenant. Il s’agit en réalité d’une cafetière pour une seule tasse. Visuellement très réussie, cet objet et ce projet au design minimaliste, très sobre et intuitif est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Japanese architects Maker have completed a Hiroshima restaurant where timber slats on the ceiling descend around the dining tables.
These vertical batons create privacy screens between tables and corridors at the Kurogane restaurant.
Hanging fabric creates additional screens between individual tables.
Maker also recently completed a hair salon with untreated timber booths and gauze partitions – see our earlier story here.
Photography is by Shigeki Orita.
Here are a few words from Maker:
Kurogane by Maker
Noncommittally, three-dimensionally, ‘Kurogane’, the restaurant of Hiroshima-styled teppan-yaki(dishes on a hot plate), is on the second floor of the building in the city area of Hiroshima.
The owner had wanted to make a restaurant of teppan-yaki familiar with women. We designed the clean natural space with wood based on her wish.
The most characteristic part is wooden louvers. These are used for partitions and the ceiling, and cover the inside of the restaurant.
Their layer and shade make us feel depth and a cubic effect.
Passing an entrance, there is the inside space directed by warming lightings and louvers.
louvered partitions vaguely divide seats and a service lead.
Because of them, visitors can observe visitor’s appearances through them, and give fine quickly service.
Louvers play functional and ornamental role and give a feel of unification.
This design is simple but three-dimensionally, and this restaurant makes good mood pursuing of distance between visitors and staffs.
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| Tree Restaurant by Koichi Takada Architects | Tang Palace by FCJZ | Rosa’s by Gundry & Ducker |
Japanese architects Maker have completed a hair salon featuring gauze partitions and booths in untreated wood.
Reception, hair-washing, hair-cutting and waiting areas are pocketed in rounded, waist-high walls.
Transparent fabric hanging from the ceiling is tucked into the top of each unit and lights are hidden in the crevices.
The softwood walls double as a magazine rack and television cubby in the waiting area.
Timber also clads the bottom of the front facade.
Other Japanese salons featuring exposed concrete and unfinished wood include one by Suppose Design Office and another by Isolation Unit – see all our stories on hair salons here.
See also: our compilation of unfinished-looking projects here.
Here are a few words from the architect:
Hair Very by Maker
A plan in the salon in Kure-shi, Hiroshima.
Though I make the function of the hair salon last inside the compact space. I made an expanse last in the interior and aimed at the production which can keep privacy. The wall where a space settles the space divided every function, amount admonition to a lower back. The upper part adopted a fabric of the transparent material. Until I come to indoor facade from the space interior. By making them unify the material of which the whole space is composed. It was possible to make the soft spread last in compact space.
A wall of the height to the lower back will be sometimes a box for illumination. It’ll be a television box for a child room. It’s also used as a magazine rack. The fabric material into which space is partitioned soft from the ceiling? Illumination inside the retaining wall is received and space is produced soft. It’ll be sometimes a fitting area. It’ll be a cloakroom area and be the back yard, mobile, it’s possible mechanism.
The whole in the store meets the function, and, keeping privacy. The production with which murmur, light and the sign can be shared was achieved.
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| Lodge by Suppose Design Office | Kashiwa Hairdresser by Three.Ball.Cascade | kilico. hair salon by Makoto Yamaguchi |
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