Hasta La Ideas

A neat row of wooden louvers conceals a small sleeping chamber inside the attic staffroom of a hair salon in Hamamatsu, Japan.

Japanese firm 403architecture started the renovation by stripping the walls, ceiling and floor of the loft bare, before laying the roof rafters as floorboards.

The former floorboards were recycled to create the walls and ceiling of the louvered bedroom, which is propped up on one side where the floor level changes.

The ceiling overhead is left unfinished, with exposed lighting fixtures and ventilation ducts.

This is the third unusually titled interior we’ve published recently from 403architecture – see the first two here.

Photography is by Kenta Hasegawa.

Here’s a description from 403architecture:

The Grid of Santen

This project is the staffroom of the hair salon in Hamamatsu, Japan.

The client needed a space to take a nap and meal. Fortunately, there is a timber deserted loft at the rooftop of the same building.

So we aimed at solving this contradictional demands  by using materials from this rooftop loft.

At first we wrecked this loft, then calculated all of materials. Then, we begun to study on the CAD, which means that we constructed the actual measure and materials in the virtual space.

Also in the construction term, we used the huge parking to spread lots of materials as if in the virtual space of the CAD. We choose the “site prefabrication”.

We converted “ex beam”  to the new floor, and  “ex floor board” to the new columns, and “ex joist” to the new beam for the structural system of layering miner grids.

Ex floor board which become columns works as double louver controlling eye view, keeping air flow.

And this louver solve that contradictional demands “nap” and “meal”. With each louver, one side was painted white, the other side was not painted.

So we can see this volume as white, light one from the entrance, in the other hand, we can see as massive wooden volume from the cutting space. We wanted to propose an alternative distance.

Inside is white space but actually it looks soft yellow because the light from outside moves around and reflects with the non-painting louver.

The surface of each material painted white has a marbled pattern because we wanna use existing pattern of the each materials which consist of the loft.

And this volume hanged out from the ceiling to simplify each connection by canceled the weight of itself.

Though out this project, we reconstructed every topic of the architecture such as structure, program, study, construction, window, volume, surface by converting the structure which had already constructed to the new system.

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

Portuguese studio Nuno Capa have completed the interiors for a hair salon in Braga, Portugal, featuring translucent curtains to partition the space into smaller zones.

Designed for hairdresser Pedro Remy, exposed concrete features throughout the New Room salon and the areas requiring a bit more privacy are divided using corrugated metal.

Double height curtains running on circular tracks enclose workstations to create semi-private booths.

The salon also functions as a training academy.

Photographs are by Rui Pires.

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Here’s some more information from the graphic designer João Loureiro:

New Room is the latest space of the Portuguese hairdresser Pedro Remy. Hosted in the city of Braga, this innovative space designed by the architect Nuno Capa, it’s contemporary and minimalist.

Aiming to keep sight of the initial construction raw elements such as structural elements in concrete, these dialogues with the intervention of new fixed elements, ensuring the visual balance of a relaxing, comfortable and informal environment. It promotes the spatial fluidity for those who circulate, giving a special and different character to the workroom.

Alongside innovation, New Room offers an extensive menu of hairdressing and aesthetical services, targeted to customers who worry about their image and looking for new trends.

Our stylists are internally trained by our own academy to ensure a high quality service, always directing their attention to the customer’s life concept, personality, personal habits, appearance and hair type. This workspace is also a training academy, aiming to support all hairdressing and make-up professionals.

In the schedule is already a plan for continuous and quality training in the area of new methods and practical techniques. The business training in management of hairdressers, leadership and motivation of teams, marketing, among others, will enhance the diversity of educational knowledge offer, differentiation factors and enhance today’s professionals.

We advocate an equal degree of knowledge for all professionals, in order to glamorize this as one of the most important artistic interventions in the area of beauty that comes with the past, present and future of human civilization.

New Room is a new change, modernity and sharing knowledge for everyone’s future. We want to maximize the value of the concept and lifestyle for all our customers.

Project: New Room
Client: Pedro Remy
Architect: Nuno Capa
Design: João Loureiro

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kilico. hair salon by Makoto Yamaguchi	Nagi by Eiri Ota and Irene Gardpoit Chan	Boa Hairdressers Salon by Claudia Meier

This beauty salon with faceted walls is located within a hotel in central Singapore, and was designed by Japanese designer Teruhiro Yanagihara.

Designed for Japanese hair-dressing chain LIM (Less Is More), the interior space is divided up into three different zones – reception, cutting and shampooing areas – by the faceted structure.

Movable panels with mirrors on them fold out of the wall in the cutting area and can be moved back to create an open space for events and concerts.

The salon can also double up as a gallery, with a small dedicated space located in the timber reception area.

Photographs are by Choo.

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Here’s some more information from the architects:

Singapore

KIZUKI, the latest branch of the rapidly growing japanese company Less is More is located in the prestigious Raffles Hotel in the center of Singapore.

The very contemporary setting, merged into the large, history-charged space, reflects the spirit of the young japanese stylists, who came to tropically hot Singapore with their ‘cool’ styles and ideas.

A ‘glacier’-like structure dominates the space and separates it into reception, cutting and shampooing area. In the cutting area, large pivotable wings with mirrors fold out of the wall.

When they are closed flush into the wall, the room becomes a spacious location for events and concerts. The timbered reception ‘hut’, includes a small gallery space that works as a platform for local artist.

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MS café by Wunderteam	Apartment+LIM by Isolation Unit	Lim Code by Isolation Unit