Works#2024

静岡県の伊豆半島西部に位置する旅館の改修計画です。万葉集に詠われた「明けてしまうのが惜しい、素晴らしい夜」に由来する「あたら夜 西伊豆」の第2期、第3期リニューアルのプロジェクトとなります。第1期ではスイートルームとバーを改修、今回の第2期で客室の改装をし、第3期でファサード・ロビー・ルーフトップテラス(足湯)・共用廊下・ライブキッチンを改装するなど、全面改修を当社で担当しました。若年層のカップルや夫婦でくつろげる心地よい広さの客室、足湯をしながらマシュマロを焼いて食べられるロビー、西伊豆の水平線を見ながら楽しめる足湯付きのルーフトップテラスという夜を楽しめる体験をつくり出しました。

建築設計からインテリアデザイン、外構デザインまで住宅1棟丸ごとの設計・デザインを行いました。敷地は目の前に日本海を望む土地で一帯には複雑に入り組んだリアス海岸が広がり、「洞門」と呼ばれるダイナミックな地形の景勝地として知られています。一方、周辺に目を向けてみると迷路のように入り組んだ路地が独特の街並みをつくり出しています。これは、北風が吹き抜けるのを防ぐために交差部がクランクした枡形構成というこの地域ならではの特色です。その特有の路地構成を1階平面に採り入れることで建築ボリュームを分節し周辺環境との調和を図っています。外観やエントランスホールはリアス海岸をモチーフとした地形のような構成となっており、南側からセットバックすることで街並みとの連続性を確保しています。一方、北側のファサードは周囲より1段立ち上げ、立体的な桝形構成のような形状とすることで北風が街へ吹き抜けるのを防ぐことを意図しています。外部仕上に関しては、下部が岩肌で上部に木が生い茂るリアス海岸の外観的特徴を建築にも呼応させるべく、下層には洗い出しによって骨材をあらわにした岩のようなコンクリートを、上層には杉板型枠による木目調のコンクリートを採用しました。表面に現れてくる骨材も杉板型枠材も共に地域で採取できる材料を利用しており、その土地ならではの素材による表情が、立地固有の情景を未来に紡いでいくことを期待しました。加えて、この2段構成は、内部空間の仕上げにも適用することで建築との統一感をつくり出し、内外の一体感の醸成にも貢献しています。

Fujifilm Business Innovation's Green Park FLOOP is a place where adults can make new discoveries and children can learn and think freely. It was opened in 2024 as an experiential facility where visitors can learn about environmental issues and Fujifilm Business Innovation's technology in an easy-to-understand manner while experiencing various multifunction printer-related technologies, and explore the future of a sustainable earth. In the four experiential displays zones (Studio, Technology, Think, and Action), visitors can learn about future city development, multifunction printer technology, and environmental issues in an interactive manner. The adjacent Cafe & Co-work offers environmentally friendly menus based on the concept of "circulation." Throughout the facility, the company's environmental efforts and technological innovations are expressed, providing an opportunity for visitors to think about and act on a sustainable future. We aimed to create a new learning space open to the community where adults and children can learn in a fun way.

"REVERSE AREA" in the Maruhan Sendai Kudatake store, which opened in Sendai, is a new type of rest space where you can feel relaxed in contrast to the heat of the pachinko parlor. To evoke the combination of the heat of the parlor and the relaxing space, we focused on the flow of the sauna, cold bath, and open-air bath, and adopted content that has a healing and relaxing effect in the room. To maximize the healing power of water, we selected a device that shakes a water basin to project the ripples in the space, fresh forest aromas, original healing sounds, and reclining chairs and bowl-type chairs, creating a place where you can immerse yourself in "relaxation" with all your senses. Our company is in charge of planning and basic concept, design, layout, building execution, environmental features, and sign and graphic concept design.

The Meiji Memorial Oiso Teien was established in 2017 as part of the measures related to the "150th anniversary of the Meiji era," and is being developed to display the historical mansion and garden as a single structure. In the Okuma and Mutsu area, which will open to the public in November 2024, we planned and produced video content that introduces the architectural features and highlights of the mansion, displays convey the achievements and personalities of people associated with the mansion, and renovation projects to repair and strengthen the historical building, and we also repaired the furniture and interiors. The exhibit, which uses a model to clearly and visually express the differences between the former displays and the current building, and the roof can be raised and lowered to allow visitors to see not only the exterior but also the differences in room layout, has been well received by visitors.

It opened in April 2024 as a restaurant created by Chef Kobayashi Kei of the Parisian French restaurant "Restaurant KEI" and "Toraya", a Japanese confectionery shop founded in the late Muromachi period. In Ginza, Tokyo, where tradition and newness coexist and diverse food cultures can be enjoyed, we want to create a restaurant that goes beyond French cuisine, pursues innovation in gourmet food with a free-thinking approach, without being bound by anything. We want everyone who works here, not just the chefs, to learn and research ingredients, share the essence of gourmet food with customers who visit, and make not only the food but the entire experience here satisfy the customers' hearts. "ESPRIT C. KEI GINZA" is a so-called "gourmet laboratory" that embodies Chef Kobayashi Kei's thoughts. The restaurant consists of a main dining room with live counter seats centered around the open kitchen, which is the key to creating the dishes, table seats covered with a wooden concept design, and a private kitchen with a private room inspired by a laboratory. France is said to have a culture of stone, and Japan has a culture of wood. This restaurant is a new space where French and Japanese cultures meet, blending the cultures of both countries in a harmonious blend of stone and wood. The ceiling concept design that covers the entire floor is a dynamic composition that changes from a traditional checkerboard pattern to an innovative cave-like installation, expressing tradition and innovation.

This is a new style bar created by chef Kei Kobayashi and Saint-Louis, a French crystal maison founded in 1586. You can enjoy the dishes and desserts created by the chef along with drinks served in traditional Saint-Louis crystal glasses. The new two-row bar style was created by the service staff and the chef, and the custom-made counter made of Datekanmuri stone rises up like a stage along with the cooking scene. A terrace seat is planned behind the bar, and a Japanese garden is used as the base for the garden, and concept design is three-dimensional with the stairs to the roof. In expressing the tradition and history of Saint-Louis and Toraya, two long-established brands representing Japan and France, in the space, we are particular about using real materials. The top of the first row counter is made of Jindai cedar, a wood that is said to have been fossilized in the ground for over 2,000 years, and the second row counter is made of Datekan stone, which was also created by crustal movements over a long period of time. The cultures of France and Japan come together in a space where stone and wood harmonize, and the sparkle of Saint-Louis crystal scattered throughout adds a touch of French flair.

Kagaya is a famous Japanese inn with its main store in Wakura Onsen, Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture. In January 2024, Kagaya suffered severe damage from the earthquake that occurred off the coast of the Noto Peninsula. However, at the entrance to the inn, there was a pine tree that stood unaffected by the earthquake, and people were touched by its majestic appearance. Therefore, in creating this store, concept design concept was based on the "pine tree," which is revered as an object of prayer in the Noto region. The counter ceiling located in the center of the store is designed with pine leaves connected together to symbolically express the pine tree stretching up to the sky. The facade is concept design to represent pine leaves stretching up into the Noto sky, creating a warm welcome for visitors. Additionally, a silver-thread belt that has been passed down from generation to generation to female inns is displayed on a display shelf behind the counter, and art and crafts that have been passed down through generations at the inn are scattered throughout the inn, preserving the beauty and techniques of Noto. Together, we created the store, combining Kagaya's traditions, spirit of hospitality, and desire for recovery with the vitality and strength of the Noto pine trees.

This project is to revive Kinokuniya Bookstore's salon, a place of hospitality, on the top floor of the flagship Shinjuku main store building. When the building was constructed in 1964, the company's founder, Moichi Tanabe, created a salon as a social gathering place for the literary world. Time has passed since then, but this space has been lost, so in order to revive it in the present day, we were in charge of design, layout, production, construction, etc. of this new project, following the renovation of the Shinjuku main store, which took place from 2021 to 2023.

This project involved concept design, interiors renovation, and environmental features of the children's corner of Nakano City's Ekoda Library, located in a quiet residential area where children from the neighborhood gather. On the first floor, we replaced the old interiors materials with new ones and created a bookshelf unique to the children's corner, where large books and picture-story shows can be stored. We also created a magazine area for parents to enjoy, creating a space where parents and children can spend time together. In this space, where children are greeted by the library's original characters, "Shishimaru" and "Egotan," inspired by the "Ekoda Lion Dance," an intangible folk cultural property designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, we aimed to give children the impression that libraries are fun places. On the second floor, we installed a new counter and chairs. By using acrylic material for part of the counter, it has become a space where you can quietly read while feeling the faint warmth of the sunlight.

We exhibited "Being Furniture" at DESIGNART TOKYO 2024, Japan's largest concept design and art festival (with the theme "Reframing - The Beginning of Transformation"). "Being Furniture" is a project that reconsiders the relationship between people and objects. We create many things every day in our spatial concept design projects, but behind the scenes, we feel that there is a big issue with these things being discarded or no longer used while still fully usable. When we think about a situation in which an object is used for a long time and with great care, it is often the case that a relationship is formed that gives rise to an attachment to the object. In such cases, we noticed that we have gone from a sense of "owning and using" to a sense of "being with" the object and caring about it. Therefore, we thought that noticing this change in sensation might be one way to solve the problem. The furniture presented in the project is not particularly sturdy or functional. Rather, it has a certain instability and whimsy that makes us want to care for it. If furniture changes from "being" to "being there," how will we interact with it? Through a series of experimental concept design in this project, we ask society about the transformation in value between people and objects. Our company's vision is to "open up all kinds of spatial possibilities starting from the 'creativity' of each individual," and we are working to create spaces that enrich people's hearts. As part of this, we continue to exhibit at concept design events both in Japan and overseas in order to take on the social issues we face from a creative perspective and create a cycle of communication, exchange, and innovation through our output.

This is a project for the all-day dining restaurant "MONDO Sagami Ohno" that will open on the 7th floor of Odakyu Hotel Century Sagami Ohno. The restaurant will have a spacious space of over 666 square meters and a huge wood-fired oven, which will be the symbol of the restaurant "MONDO". Based on the theme of "from the mountain to the table", the restaurant will bring out the original flavor of the ingredients through wood-fired cooking, and serve simple and innovative flavors. Guests can casually enjoy authentic Italian cuisine, including a lunch buffet featuring carefully made handmade bread and steaks baked in a wood-fired oven. The restaurant will also feature "BAR ROJY", where you can casually enjoy authentic cocktails and rare old whiskeys, and "Kogasaka Bake Sagami Ohno", where you can purchase freshly baked bread and baked goods, proposing a free, warm and unique restaurant experience to the people of the city.

Set in the 1920s America during the era of construction, this bar is based on the "speakeasy" concept, a culture at the time where people would smuggle alcohol behind the scenes, disguised as beauty salons or law offices. JANAI HOTEL is the third in the "JANAI" secret bar series, which incorporates the speakeasy system to create a place where only those who find the concept interesting can gather. Opening a painting that at first glance does not look like a door, you enter a secret bar that can only be reached by those who have cracked the password. We were in charge of design, layout, and architectural design the tenant.

This project is a phased renewal project that will take place over a period of approximately three years from 2022 to 2024. This is the third phase, and involves renovating the 46th floor "SKY VIEW" and "Entrance," transforming the building into a place that will generate new excitement and interaction.

This is a renovation project for a permanent comprehensive sales gallery that will act as a base for communicating information about the housing brand "Gracia" developed by Sotetsu Real Estate, where customers can experience the brand's worldview through actual properties and video. The Sotetsu Line, which is deeply rooted in the Yokohama area and is loved by many, is now connected to the Tokyu Line through mutual direct service, improving convenience. As a result, the salon was opened in Shin-Yokohama, which functions as a hub connecting Yokohama, where Sotetsu Real Estate is based, with other prefectures, making it easy for customers living in the city center to visit. The facility includes a lounge where events can be held, a presentation room where each property can be experienced in VR, and a concept room that expresses the "quality" of the Gracia brand. We were in charge of interiors concept design, environmental features, and display.