BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE POP UP CAFE – Shibuya –
Architect_Schemata Architects
Construction_TANK
Location_Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Photography_Takumi Ota
2021.10-2022.2
BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE UMEDA CHAYAMACHI CAFE
Architect_I IN
Construction_TANK, Atelier Loöwe
Lighting design_Y LIGHTS
Digital Art_Panoramatiks
Location_Chaya-machi, Osaka
Photography_Tomooki Kengaku
2021.09
Musashino Art University Building No.16
Architect_Schemata Architects
Text_Schemata Architects
Construction_DAIWA LEASE CO.,LTD (architecture), TANK (interior)
Collaboration_village (signage) Floors 3
photography_Kenta Hasegawa
Location_Kodaira-shi, Tokyo
2020.12
BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE SHIROIYA CAFE
Architect_Keiji Ashizawa Design
Project architect_Keiji Ashizawa / Tomohiko Fujishita
Construction_TANK
Photography_Ben Richards
Location_Maebashi, Gumma
2021.09
SENBAN/Salone del Mobile 2021
SENBAN
人類は火を起こした大昔から回転運動であらゆる文明を生み出してきた。
風車や水車による灌漑設備による農業の発達や製粉加工による食文化の進化、さらに石炭をエネルギー源とする蒸気機関による工場や輸送機器の進化だったり、回転運動は人類の進化とともに発展してきた。
そんな中、いやそんな垂直な進化の中、我々は水平、つまり横乗りの進化で一つ新たな楽しい回転加工の方法を編み出した。
建築家スキーマ建築計画/長坂常(Design)が回転加工のあり方とそれによって生み出されるデザインを考え、工務店であるTANK/福元成武(Product Realization)が実現に向け加工機を作り出し、プロダクトまで制作した。
普段、スキーマとTANKは建築設計と建築施工でタッグを組んでおり、この2社だからできる息のあった作品となった。
旋盤加工は工作物を回転させて切削する加工のことで、基本切削するのに丸くなっていないと跳ね返され、まともに加工できない。
なので、主に丸棒を材料として加工するのだが、今年のヴェネツィアビエンナーレの日本館の設計に携わった時に足場の材料である単管(48.6Φ)と大きさがまちまちの古い角材を接合させたいと考えたのだが、その時に角材で弾かれずに切削するために、回転と同じ方向に回転させた丸鋸を直角に当て48.6Φに切削する加工を考えた。それでテーブルやらベンチなどいくつか家具を作り会場に設置した。ただ、この各々の対象の形に影響受けずに求めている形を切り刻んでいくこの勇ましい丸鋸旋盤はなかなか面白く、どんなものを当てがったらどんな面白いものが生まれるか?と好奇心をくすぐる。
そこで今回3種類の旋盤加工機を作り、それぞれ複数作品を作った。
SENBAN1
オブジェクトをある向きに回転させ、その回転と同じ方向に回転させた丸鋸をそのオブジェクトにY方向に近づけながらX方向に移動していくことで筒状に加工される。
ベネツィア・ビエンナーレ2021のために作り上げたもので、既存のコーヒーテーブルを加工しツインズを作った。
SENBAN2
オブジェクトの回転と直角方向に回転するものをZ方向に近づけると、そのオブジェクトが回転しながら斬られ、結果がお椀上にくり抜かれる。今回、加工対象となるオブジェクトはTANKにあった端材を水平方向に組んだものと、垂直方向に組んだもの2種類作った。
SENBAN3
オブジェクトの回転と直角方向に回転するものをそのオブジェクトXY方向に近づけることとで加工し対象のオブジェクトを筒状に削った。
SENBAN/Salone del Mobile 2021
Humans have been creating all kinds of civilizations with rotational motion since the days of fire. From the development of agriculture through irrigation systems using windmills and water mills, to the evolution of food culture through flour milling, to the invention of factories and transportation equipment using steam engines powered by coal, a rotary motion has developed along with human evolution. In the midst of all this, or rather in the midst of such vertically-oriented evolution, we have developed a new and fun method of rotational processing through horizontal, or sideways, evolution.
An Architect Jo Nagasaka, Schemata Architects (Design), designed a way of rotational processing and the design created by it, and Narutake Fukumoto, TANK (Product Realization), a construction company, created a processing machine to realize it, and even produced the product. Schema and TANK usually work together in architectural design and construction, and this work was a result of the collaboration between these two companies.
Lathe processing is the process of cutting by rotating the workpiece, and if it is not round enough for basic cutting, it will bounce back and cannot be processed properly. When I was involved in the design of the Japanese Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, I wanted to join the scaffolding material, a single tube (48.6Φ), to an old square timber of varying sizes, and in order to cut the square timber without it bouncing, I rotated it in the same direction as the rotation. In order to cut the wood without it being bounced, I decided to use a circular saw rotated in the same direction as the rotation to cut the wood to 48.6Φ. I used this method to make several pieces of furniture, such as tables and benches and set them up at the venue. This courageous circular saw lathe, which cuts the desired shape without being disturbed by the shape of each object, is quite interesting. It tickles my curiosity.
So this time, we made three types of lathe machines, each of which produced multiple works.
An object is rotated in a certain direction, and a circular saw, rotating in the same direction as the rotation, is moved in the X direction while approaching the object in the Y direction to form a cylinder. The work was created for the Venice Biennale 2021, where I processed an existing coffee table to create the Twins.
When an object rotating at right angles to the object’s rotation is brought close to the object in the Z direction, the object is sliced as it rotates, and the result is hollowed out into a bowl. This time, I made two types of objects to be processed: one is a piece of scrap wood from TANK, and the other is a vertical piece.
The object to be processed was cut into a cylindrical shape by rotating the object and bringing the object rotating in the right angle direction closer to the object’s XY direction.
Design_Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects)
Text_Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects)
Product Realization_Naritake Fukumoto (TANK)
Photo credits_Schemata Architects & TANK
Place_Alcova Outdoor Area A3 / VIA SIMONE SAINT BON 1 MILANO
Date_September 4th – 12th, 2021
BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE SHIBUYA CAFE
Architect_Keiji Ashizawa Design
Project architect_Keiji Ashizawa / Yuichiro Takei
Design_Keiji Ashizawa Design
Construction_TANK
Furniture_Keiji Ashizawa Design
Photography_Ben Richard / Masaaki Inoue
Location_Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
2021.04
MA nature
MA nature
Architect_Ryuji Nakamura and Associates
Structural supervision_Enshu Structural Consultants
Graphic design_Yuki Ootani (designer)
Construction_TANK
Photography_Ryuji Nakamura
Location_Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
2021.04
tutti/Non Capiscono Niente
木造長屋の一棟を改装したこの店舗は、
[外壁]
また、
[螺旋階段]
1階と2階をつなぐ螺旋階段は一坪という面積の制約の中で、
“tutti / Non Capiscono Niente” is a delicatessen and bar located on a shopping street 5 mins walk from Yoyogi Uehara station, Tokyo.
We planned to renovate the unremarkable and mediocre wooden row house into a delicatessen open to the local shopping street while the second-floor special retreat-esque bar opens at night.
[exterior]
To renovate yet retain the mood of an old barrack, we chose to cover the exterior with white-colored galvalume, which was purposely formed to pick up the underlying undulations of the insulation to impart an “untidy” impression.
We also boldly cut the exterior wall for the sizeable fixed facade window to showcase the spiral staircase inside and draw attention to the second floor.
[spiral staircase]
The minimum space allocated to the staircase (1-tsubo, approx. 3.3㎡) required ingenuity in execution. We especially realized a column-less spiral staircase that receives its vertical load on the adjacent walls and riser boards.
Architect_TANK, MMA Inc. (2F Bar counter)
Construction_TANK, 有限会社アルテ
Signage_TAKAIYAMA inc.
Location_Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Photography_Yasuyuki Deguchi
2021.3
bababa
Architect_Schemata Architects
Construction_TANK
Location_Shinjuku, Tokyo
Photography_Takumi Ota
2020.02
まちあい
Architect_Case Real
Construction_TANK
Collaboration_MODULEX (lighting plan)
Location_Minato-ku, Tokyo
Photography_Daisuke Shima
2020.10
保護猫喫茶 necoma
また、猫の見守りのためスタッフの居る厨房からホールへの死角のない配置とした。
これにより箱の壁面はホール側のどこからも見えるため、イベント時のスクリーンやアート展示等にも活用される。
ディレクション_PAG.TOKYO Inc.
所在地_東京都目黒区
用途_店舗
設計期間_2020年3月〜4月
施工期間_2020年5月〜9月
竣工_2020年9月
延床面積_59.1㎡
写真_牧口英樹
Rescued-Cats Cafe, necoma
Rescued-Cats Cafe, necoma is a cafe and an art room with cats located in a residential area within walking distance from the Gakugeidaigaku Station in Tokyo.
-location
Located on the top floor of a three-story building, the walls are slanted inward on three sides due to building restrictions to allow a given amount of sunshine to adjacent property. Simple at a glance, complex in detail, light in the room is allowed in through multiple openings making illumination uneven throughout. Taking these elements into consideration, we boldly divided the room at an angle using a box integrating the plumbing space.
-slant
This obliquely set plumbing space divides the plan into utility spaces for the entrance, hall, kitchen, and cat-raising room. The spaces are divided by punched metal and acrylic partitions allowing us glances into the other side.
Entering the hall from the gallery space, the obliquely divided room gives a perception of a space that widens out. In addition, this oblique arrangement eliminates blind corners from the kitchen allowing for excellent watch-out for the cats in the hall.
From the hall, the slanted wall is fully visible from end to end, and functions as a projection screen and display wall for the artwork.
-white
We painted the walls, floor, and ceiling in white to emphasize the cats and cat goods. The scenery and expressions of the color of the sky are excellently appreciated in the white space, creating a space with ever-changing impressions. Plus, though not a part of the original design intent, the staircase walls were white. It gives the impression of your surroundings gradually sublimating into colorless white as you walk into the building and climb the stairs. Although we initially chose white to showcase the cats, it added the effect of blending the surroundings outside the design into it and gives a sense of continuity from outside to within.
-furniture
All stools, desks, and cat towers were specially made for necoma, using void tubes used for plumbing concrete. Depending on its size, the same void tubes could be shared between cats and humans as shelters, cat towers, stools, and desks. We intended the design to be a shared space for cats and humans.
We also made cat steps that use our newly developed recycled cardboard blocks. Dissolving shredded cardboard and pressing it dry, we discovered that it binds by its original starch content only. Pouring it in a mold, the shape is freely defined as in poured concrete.
-designing intimacy with context
The name of the cafe “necoma” comes from the concept of “Thinking of the relation between ‘ma’ cats ‘neco’ and humans.” Embracing this in design, we removed discriminating elements; partitions, and cages that stand between cats and humans as much as possible. The beautiful waste cardboard-turned furniture also reflects the attitude of treating rescued cats as just “cats.”
Design and Construction_TANK Naritake Fukumoto + Makoto Isono, Motohiro Komatsu (Building System Design Laboratory at Department of Architecture, Meiji University)
Direction_PAG.TOKYO Inc.
Location_Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Photography_Hideki Makiguchi
Koganeyu
Architect_Schemata Architects
Graphic design_TAKAHASHIHIROKO
Structural Consulting_ladderup architects
Construction_TANK
Kamio Corporation (waterworks)
Thermarivm (sauna)
FUJIEI (locker)
Collaboration_Yoriko Hoshi (mural of Mount Fuji)
Iichiro Tanaka (noren)
HOSHIZAKI (kitchen equipment)
WHITELIGHT (sound planning)
Aqua Planning (advisory)
Location_Sumida-ku, Tokyo
Photography_Yurika Kono
2020.08