This is the hair salon located on a roadside in rural area famous for wood resources, which needed to be rebuilt due to land readjustment. Against the standardization of the city landscape, we created walls and roofs consisting of small active elements (mirrors, wooden counters) in the cutting space of hair salon. On top of that, the scenery of the past and present, greenery, CLT made from local woods and things were overlaped in multiple layers through the reflection of mirrors. We created the natural architecture regardless of design or use that visualizes the charm of city and hair salon.
We staggered cutting spaces with big mirror(RC wall) and counter(CLT roof) that exceeds human scale. RC walls are structurally self-supporting against out-of-plane loads and CLT roofs create long-span ceilings without beams, reducing the weight and suppressing the heat load. The combined structure can be attached by simple and highly versatile construction method same as furniture. The mirror changes from one reflects a person's appearance to one reflects oneself in the scenery. The small elements in the hair salon create a natural architecture in which things are multi-layered by reflection.
Bio Our company is an architectural design office founded in Japan in 2022 by Takahito Sekiguchi. Our philosophy is to create natural architecture that is unconstrained by design, usage, or form by continuously grasping things from the level of construction methods, from furniture to interiors, architecture, cities, nature, and the environment. We consider aesthetic, functional, environmental, social and cost requirements at the same time, and create a natural architecture in which things overlap in multiple layers.
Other prizes Asia Design Prize Winner Architecture & Design Collection Awards Gold Winner Architecture MasterPrize Awards Winner FRAME Awards Honourable mention Japan Good Design Award Winner Japan Wood Design Award Winner
