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Hender Scheme Kuramae

DDAA

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The meeting room is furnished with a glass table on legs made of steel pipes for scaffolding and leather upholstered chairs by Hender Scheme. - Kenta Hasegawa
The shelves are blindfolded. The screens are made of raw-edged polycarbonate panels that can be attached and removed with magnets, without intricate detailing like fittings. - Kenta Hasegawa
Meeting room - Kenta Hasegawa
The meeting room is furnished with a glass table on legs made of steel pipes for scaffolding and leather upholstered chairs by Hender Scheme. - Kenta Hasegawa

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Small Office
6.67
6.93
6.93
6.72
6.81
Andres Fredes
Andres Fredes Creative Director / Partner at ALLDSGN
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8
8
6
7.25
Jaime Velez
Jaime Velez Design Partner at Velez + Valencia Arquitectos
7.67
6.81
7.24
7.1
7.21
Carolin Krebber
Carolin Krebber Founder at Büro agata/ Co-founder Format F/ allmannwappner
6.52
7.52
8.67
6.88
7.4
Yen Kien Hang
Yen Kien Hang Founder / Design Writer / Author at OutOfThePackage
Can you called this "Post-pandemic...
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5
6
5.5
Philippe Paré
Philippe Paré Principal and Managing Director at Gensler
7.21
8.26
8.4
8.4
8.07
Maria Messina
Maria Messina Creative Director and Design Architect at FAAB
6
7
7
7
6.75
Firas Alsahin
Firas Alsahin Co-Founder and Design Director at 4SPACE Design
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7
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7
6.5
Jason Su
Jason Su Design Director at HCD Impress
5.1
5
5.1
5
5.05
Ayça Doğan
Ayça Doğan Head of Design at CBRE Netherlands
7.5
6.5
7.5
7
7.13
Elise Zoetmulder
Elise Zoetmulder Founder at Zoetmulder
Love how they've used all materials...
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8
6.75
Rachna Agarwal
Rachna Agarwal Founding Partner at Studio IAAD
Nice blend of earthy and industrial...
7.31
6.88
6.95
7.45
7.15
Lin Chen
Lin Chen Founding Partner at Topos Design
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7
7
6.5
6.88
Evans Lee
Evans Lee Founder & Design Director at Evans Lee Designers
6.8
7
6
5
6.2
Maximilian Pecher
Maximilian Pecher Senior Designer and Creative Lead at NorthernLight
7
8
7
7
7.25
Emma Holt
Emma Holt Associate Director at Ben Adams Architects
Brave to go all out on the exposed...
6.55
6.83
7.07
6.26
6.68
Kristen Becker
Kristen Becker Partner at Mutuus Studio
7
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7
7.25
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Client
LaicoS
Floor area
498 ㎡
Completion
2021
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This project is to renovate an entire concrete building into a showroom and office for IaicoS, which operates Hender Scheme and Polyploid. There are a few simple, specific rules for this space. 

The first is to use raw-edged materials as they are without significant edge treatment except for deburing. The second is to use the colors of materials as they are as much as possible without color matching. The third is to treat opposites, such as craft/industrial, front/back, artificial/natural, and cheap/luxurious as equally as possible. The first two, "raw-edged" and "material color," are DDAA's interpretation of the characteristics of Hender Scheme's vegetable-tanned leather, and the third is a rule inspired by their "way of making" that we feel in their creation. 

We wanted to create in a way that resonates with Hender Scheme's creation, which are familiar everyday products such as ordinary boxes, envelopes, and simple packaging designed using leather through careful techniques. This is not only because of the rules we set, but also because we sympathize with the way they make and the attitude they take. This is why we decided to leave the bare walls as they are as much as possible. Shelves and partitions around the walls are made of raw-edged gray poly lumber to accentuate the edges. One of the glass partitions separating the office and meeting room is a mirror, and the gray surface visible from the office is the back of the mirror used as a finish. 

Since the mirror and glass are the same thickness, raw edges of both materials were joined without seals along the edges like glass. The glass and mirror are fixed directly with screws using leather as washers. The exposed electrical wiring carefully laid out in the concrete walls is also held in place using raw-edged leather. The meeting space is furnished with a glass table on legs made of steel pipes for scaffolding and leather upholstered chairs by Hender Scheme.

By the way, we found the following sentence in the book "principle" published by IaicoS after the completion of the project. "In a time when only messages that are black, white, or extreme can reach people, we would like to turn things upside down, change the angle, and present yet unseen directions to turn to in the gradations of gray. " We cannot say that a starred restaurant is better than an "aka-chochin" (an inexpensive Japanese-style pub); both offer delicious food and good times. It is just they have different concepts or ways to enjoy and look at things. We will continue to think about new perspectives and values in myriad gradations of gray in which good qualities of both opposites, such as high/low, craft/industrial, front/back, artificial/natural, etc. coexist, without being biased towards one or the other.