This project is a partial renovation of an apartment room in Tokyo. The clients are a couple—one a linguistics researcher—and both are book lovers with a deep knowledge for music, film, and Japanese subculture.
The room had flooring and wallpapers were in good condition, but there was nothing some feature. The only impression of the room was the situation adjoining a Japanese-room and a Western-room suddenly, and this Japanese room was attached a “Tokonoma”, remaining of Japanese house culture.
The issue of this project is to create the space as the background of the client's life, and how to create relationship between the old part and the new part because partially renovation. It was difficult to integrate space while retaining the existing part that has no design spirit. Therefore, we considered two directions. First, to overwrite new part on old part, like clashing but carefully. It is to see positively about the strange fact like meeting suddenly Japanese-room and Western-room. Another, to give the space a unique frontality for a space of life like the "Tokonoma".
On top of the existing typical space, the white wall curved, drilling a round hole, floating a table, attaching a display-shelf, running a column diagonally, scattering colors. This slightly curved surface is contemporary interpretation of the “Tokonoma”, it is frontality of the room as the background of life. Also, it is a functional device that separates lightly and connects lightly between living and around the kitchen.
This project is untouched most of the old part, unlike a new construction or a renovation of all. The experiment is drawing partially new paints on top of an old dried paintings by architectural way, and it is a sustainable way of minimal industrial waste while response for life in the new era.
Room in Chofu : Drawing on Top of the Dried Painting
Office Yuki Konko + texte
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Location
Designer
Client
Private
Floor area
70 ㎡
Completion
2024
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