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Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan.

Called Sorayumebako, the interior is lined with a wooden grid supporting shelves for the books and frames for the artwork.

The whole space is painted in orange, including walls, ceiling, floor and all the furniture.

Photographs are by Kiyotoshi Takashima.

Here is more information from the designer:

Sorayumebako

It is located in the area where locals live in, far away from the busy commercial centre. I designed the shop with the concept of “not to blend in the surrounding”, following my client’s request to reflect the meaning of “Sorayumebako” to the actual design.

“Sorayume” is a Japanese word meaning “a fabricated dream” to tell people as if you actually dreamed it. Having this concept in mind, I tried to create space where visitors feel as if they stepped into another world, a dream.

The key colour of orange interprets the time between day and night, summer and winter, and yin and yang. It reveals that this is a place for visitors to change their mind from yang “daily life” to yin “private life”. I only used one colour in order to enhance visitor’s awareness through the shop from within and without.

For letting visitors associate “bako” (the variant form of “hako”) meaning “a box” in English, I lined a series of portal frames from the entrance to the shop. Using this unique structure, I had tables, bookshelves, exhibition panels and projector panels built-in, in order to make use of space for many different occasions.

Design: kraf•te, Yukio Kimura
Sign Graphics: kraf•te, Yukiko Yamamoto
Collaboration / Lighting: Fukunishi Electric Corporation, Yoshino Higashi
Constructi+on: Up Life

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Spanish studio Arquitectura-G have renovated this apartment in the El Born area of Barcelona by adding wooden storage and mezzanines.

Divided in two by a solid wall, the apartment comprises a kitchen and dining area on one side with a living room, study and bedroom on the other.

Thin white metal steps lead from this second part to a mezzanine that extends over half the floor area, with an even higher platform holding the bed.

Photographs are by José Hevia.

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Accommodation of 34 m2 and 4.5 m in height, divided by a load bearing wall in two rooms of similar size, located in El Born in Barcelona.

Assuming this separation, the housing project divides into two areas:

The first consists of the kitchen and a mobile cabinet, which operates as a bar, kitchen side table and dining table. It is a social area linked to the driveway, which improves the electrical installation and use television to spread beyond the mere fact of cooking and eating.

The second stay, however, responds to needs of a greater degree of privacy. That is why the space is fragmented into different trays that house the program in height, providing a gradient of intimacy without losing the visual connection between them.

Thus, the first tray, which occupies half the area of ​​this room, is understood as an ambiguous space dressing room and study area. The second highest one-quarter of the plant surface, contains the space for a bed.

For the resolution of this scheme in height, are particularly important furniture, adapting to different places, meeting the urgent need for storage, and the connection and relationship between levels.

Neglecting current standards of habitability and construction, it gives each area the necessary scale for each item and use the appropriate features.

The spaces are formed depending on the size and privacy they require, and wealth is given by the relations generated between them. For this reason, rather than speaking of space “up” or “below”, we can talk of “spaces between”, “spaces next to” or “spaces.”

Work: Reform of Housing in the Born, Barcelona
Architects: ARCHITECTURE-G (Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdanpileta)
Contributor: David Fernandez Taboada
Sponsor: Ms. Santarelli
Location: Barcelona (Spain)
Reformed Surface: 34 m²
Project Year: 2010
Year built: 2011

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Brazilian studio Estudio Guto Requena have designed an exhibition stand that changes color in response to how busy the space gets.

The [Cyber]Sewing Atelier was created for an art fair in Sao Paulo to display outfits that incorporate digital technologies, as well as hosting lectures and sewing workstations.

The structure was made from pine frames covered in bubble wrap.

Coloured LED lighting in each panel was controlled by seven heat sensors and three sound sensors spread around the space.

Cooler colours were projected onto the bubble wrap when the area was quieter, while warmer colours emerged when it was busier and noisier.

Photographs are by Fran Parente.

Here are some more details from the designers:

SCENOGRAPHY DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION “[CYBER]SEWING ATELIER”

Estudio Guto Requena

In a 2.700 square feet space, the scenography shelters the complex art and technology exhibition “[Cyber]sewing Atelier” program, which takes part of the biggest annual art event in Sao Paulo – The Sesc Art Exhibition 2010. Five wearable computer pieces, lectures and workshops take place inside this space, and also a private area set apart for artists to test and repair their artistic creations.

The exhibition takes place at Sesc Pompeia, undoubtedly one of the most architectonic relevant buildings in the country, projected by architect Lina Bo Bardi, and opened in 1982. Our scenography establishes a profound dialogue with this building, in a relationship of both integration and unfamiliarity, paradoxically. A long translucent surface unrolls itself through the space, with its dimensions, angles and proportions calculated to create a certain relation with its surroundings, tearing up the building and creating the needed reserved areas for the program.

This translucent wall consists of an interactive skin, which responds to the environment stimuli, changing its color, through several sensors that capture movement at sonorous level of people walking around and through the building. Colors and distinct graphics patterns invite the public’s reflections about the way they occupy, walk and behave within the space. The main thought for this interactive skin is to enhance and unite these three entities: visitors, space and the five wearable pieces.

The skin construction was made from low cost materials and simple, accessible technology. For the wall structure, certified Pine wood pieces were used, then covered with bubble wrap. For the interaction part, seven infrared presence sensors and three sonorous sensors were used, spread around the interior of the building. Those sensors had their codes opened and their original functioning was modified and then they were all connected to the micro-controller Arduino, which converts the sensors input signs into chromatic patterns and alternate them into an open programming. All this was projected and constructed in the workshops, during the event. And all these equipments were exposed as part of the scenography´s aesthetic concept. The initial idea was to making cold color, such as greens and blues, indicate quiet moments with few people and noises, opposing to warm colors, as reds and yellows, that indicate more people in the space and, consequently more noises. All the data and programming will be free shared at Pachube (pachube.com).

Referring to grammas sewing ateliers memories, the scenography incorporates elements of affective impact upon the visitors, purchased in small shops and garage sales, like the chair selection worn by time, decorative porcelain pieces, sewing machines, wool balls, knitting needles and antique tapestry. Added to this time related layer, comes elements of our era and daily routine: microchips, micro-controllers, LEDs and transistors.

The exhibition should generate the least environmental impact possible, so this way, all decorative objects and furniture were rented, and the Pine wall structure and its bubble wrap covering, will be given away to recycling cooperatives. The use of local materials, including the interaction equipment, was a priority, and all the furniture bought at Institution “Lar Escola Sao Francisco” will be given back to the former owner, so they can resell them.

The [Cyber]sewing Atelier” scenography and art direction project incorporates in its essence elements from apparently distinct universes, which just like the advances of new information and communication technologies, seem to merge: organic and machines, analog and digital, natural and artificial, concrete and virtual.

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We welcome the public to speculate the directions our bodies, our clothes and our space are taking along those new technologies.

Curatorship: Gabriela Carneiro
Scenography and Art Direction: Guto Requena Arquitetura e Design
Team: Guto Requena, Paulo de Camargo e Lucas Ciciliato
Interaction Technician: Radamés Ajna
Production: COM TATO – Cultural Agency and Célula – Production Agency
Gráfic Designer: Poliana Melo

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Bangkok studio Department of Architecture have installed rippling fabric fins hanging from the ceiling of this hotel lobby in Pattaya, Thailand.

Located on the 17th floor of a tower over the beach, the Hilton Pattaya Hotel lobby was designed to draw visitors from a central elevator towards the windows and sea view beyond.

Air conditioning causes the fabric sheets to sway and ripple across the ceiling.

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Lobby & Bar

The space given for a luxury hotel lobby and bar occupies the 17th floor of a tower high above the bustle of Pattaya beach below.

Configuration of the space was challenging due to relatively low ceiling-height comparing to its depth and width. Its accessibility was another challenge. Elevators bringing guests from the hotel Ground floor reception hall come up 40m. deep from the building edge keeping guests away from sea view.

Our proposal acknowledges these challenges by providing architectural intervention with a site-specific installation on its entire ceiling plane. The design of this space is centered on a fabric installation inspired by rippling lighting reflection on ocean surface looking from divers’ eyes. Guests stepping out from the elevators will be allured by wavy movement above and will drift forward toward sea view. Layers of fabric sway with air-con supplies giving an illusion of breeze appearing as a familiar outdoor feel to be out of an unfamiliar indoor context.

The space is bathed with natural light during the day. At night, certain translucent fabric strips are lit up from above presenting a sophisticate & dramatic rippling-water effect and casting a warm glow throughout the interior. This articulation of hundreds of curved fabric lines, helped by a mirror wall and a long strip of wooden wall with cave-like alcoves, creates an illusion of endlessly long but cozy indoor bar space.

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More than half of the outdoor bar area is turned into a large reflecting pond with floating droplet-inspired daybeds connected by a narrow walkway. Hundred images of lighting fixtures are mostly reflections of the fixtures on water surface as well as on a glass balustrade creating glittering impression throughout outdoor bar at night.

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Process5 Design of Osaka have completed the interior of this bridal shop in Himeji, Japan.

Called Bridal Magic, the store has changing rooms in the middle surrounded by mirrored panels.

Picture frames dotted over the mirrored surface either showcase accessories or reflect the rails of dresses arranged round the shop’s outer edge.

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Here are some more details from the designers:

Concept of dress shop Bridal Magic

“A circuit-style dress shop inlaid with frames”

Many people of all nationalities throng the main street that leads from JR Himeji Station to the World Heritage Site of Himeji Castle.

Dress shop “Bridal Magic” is located in a side street just off this main street and was planned as a related facility in anticipation of the wedding hall that will face on to the main street (opening in March 2011).

The floor plan was created so that fitting rooms are located in the middle of the space and reception, waiting and dress display spaces are arranged around these. All four walls surrounding the fitting rooms are mirrored and randomly inlaid with frames. Some of these frames simply contain mirrors but others contain displays of accessories, apertures, lighting equipment and handles for the fitting room doors.

This use of space surprises customers and creates an encounter with a stunning dress. This dress shop evokes the feelings of expectation and exaltation of the bride, who is the centre of attention, with respect to her wedding.

Project designer: TAO THONG VILLA Co Ltd. Hideki Kureha
Designer: PROCESS5 DESIGN. Ikuma Yoshizawa, Noriaki Takeda
Contractor: J.FRONT DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION Co Ltd. Yasukazu Miki, Tatsuya Nagaoka
Collaborator/lighting design: USHIO INC. Mariko Hayashi
Total area : 183.36㎡

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