Architects: ninkipen!
Location: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Yasuo Imazu
Area: 65.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: Hiroki Kawata
Lighting Designer: HIROYUKI NAGATOMI / new light pottery
Garden Designer: AKEMI HATTA
Scluptor: SEIJI KIMATA

From the architect. This is an interior design of an apparel studio and gallery. We built a cement fence at a right angle to the window facing the front main street to separate the room into two spaces with different uses. People out in the street can see the both spaces in a single view.

We placed many objects, like a sewing machine, a leather making machine, workbenches, a PC in the studio, on the other side, in the galley, we did not place anything but the only pillar which was carved by a master carpenter. We succeeded in making two spaces with different density from each other.

We retain the tiles and the bond left on the wall as traces of their predecessors’ challenging into the future. We put soil and planted several kinds of trees by a window. This design with one pillar and several trees infused vitality into the inorganic space with mortar, cement blocks and veneer.

HA-HA Apartment / ninkipen! originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 20 Apr 2015.
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