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Room in Chofu : Drawing on Top of the Dried Painting

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The wall forms an arch, buried under household goods. - Yuki Konko
There is a curved surface on top of the existing floor. - Yuki Konko
The holes painted vermilion are passageways for cats. - Yuki Konko
The wall forms an arch, buried under household goods. - Yuki Konko

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JURY VOTES
Small Apartment
7.94
7.61
7.78
7.39
7.68
Andre Flinterhoff
Andre Flinterhoff Cofounder at Archicon Architectural Intelligence
Remarkable stringent design where e...
7.5
7.5
8
7
7.5
Christina Wissing Oppermann
Christina Wissing Oppermann Commercial Director at Brandt Collective
7.5
7.79
8.07
7.5
7.72
Anda Zota
Anda Zota Editor in Chief at Igloo
7.24
7.6
6.74
7.45
7.26
Horace Pan
Horace Pan Founder at Panorama Design Group
6
5.5
6
5
5.63
Talar Bardakjian
Talar Bardakjian Creative Director at ODG
Really Interesting approach on crea...
7
5.8
6.5
5.9
6.3
Claudio Pironi
Claudio Pironi CEO at Claudio Pironi & Partners
7
5.5
7
7
6.63
Stephanie Ledoux
Stephanie Ledoux Partner at AW²
5.72
5.61
5.61
5.89
5.71
Filip Janssen
Filip Janssen Founder at Zware Jongens
6.9
7.2
7.5
5.6
6.8
Arne Schultchen
Arne Schultchen Founder and Creative Director at design for human nature
6.5
5.75
6.5
5
5.94
Bart Veen
Bart Veen Experience Designer at Bart.Agency
7
8
8
7
7.5
Christian Buratti
Christian Buratti Art Director at Quadrastudio
7
6.5
7.5
6
6.75
Peter Culley
Peter Culley Founder and Creative Director at Spatial Affairs Bureau
Nice to find some restrained humour...
7.02
6.88
7.13
7.95
7.25
Salone
Salone Founder at Salone del Salon
6.17
6.24
6.17
6.02
6.15
Client
Private
Floor area
70 ㎡
Completion
2024
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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.