SHOTENKENCHIKU /September

2022/08/26 2022

September 2022, SUMMARY

SHOTENKENCHIKU is monthly magazine of Japanese interior design / store design / commercial architecture

SPECIAL FEATURE

SWEETS SHOP & TAKEOUT SHOP

KAKUOZAN FRUIT DAIFUKU BENZAITEN Ashiya

（Page 62)

BENZAITEN Ashiya is a fruits-daifuku shop, next to a residential

area, five minutes walk from JR Ashiya station and its

neighborhood includes some cake shops and bakeries. The shop

in a building with nine meter wide glazed opening facing south,

through which people see the interior. Therefore, the shop was

designed to be familiar with the street and easily recognized and

constructed to have a shape of daifuku, a small round glutinous

rice cake. Behind the nine meter long window, there is a margin

space as a buffer zone. During the day time, the natural light

makes a sunny place and during the hours of darkness, the shop

façade and the counter are lit up by wall washers, presenting a

beaming big daifuku.

Designer : AHMA

SPECIAL FEATURE

SWEETS SHOP & TAKEOUT SHOP

NUMBER SUGAR Omotesando / Daikanyama

（Page 68)

NUMBER SUGAR is a shop specializing natural caramel and the

interior uses various elements of caramel for shoppers to feel

something about caramel and feel easy to choose goods.

The one in Omotesando reminds us of shape of natural caramel

toffy with a wooden platform and tiles made from soil. The other

one in Daikanyama emphasizes the soft texture of caramel with the

use of rubber tips which can be used for interior fixtures and the

exterior.

Both of shops have something common in terms of atmosphere

and corporate identity, which can be, for example, traced in sound

and light.

Designer : ya

SPECIAL FEATURE

SWEETS SHOP & TAKEOUT SHOP

DOLCE TACUBO

（Page 85)

This pastry shop focuses on simple manufacturing of high quality

ingredients of products and the interior demonstrates it by various

aspects of the shop elements. Avoiding ornate decorations, the

environment looks simple with subtle color scheme and texture of

materials.

The shop looks like a gallery and the facade is pretty impressive to

have a wood frame which functions as a kind of picture window,

attracting the attention of people in the neighborhood. The big

stepping stones on a path are Inadaishi (white granite). The size

of the stones are as big as they can handle, representing dynamic

nature. The white granite stone plates were just cut and the

surfaces were burnt, for that shoppers to walk safely on them.

Designer : Hiroki Tadokoro Architects Office

FEATURE ARTICLE

JAPANESE RESTAURANT 6 SUSHI

ZARAI OITA

（Page 121)

Located in Ginza, ZARAI OITA is a antenna shop and restaurant

of Oita prefecture. Various materials are from Oita. Moso bamboo

was used for the shop facade and pendant lamp shades and

Hitasugi (cedar) for fixture of product sales area. Usukiishi

(welded tuff) covers the floor and Hitasugi makes decorative

beams on the ceiling. In the dining area, there is a vermillion

kitchen range, based on the holy color of Usa Jingu shrine, and lot

of bamboo lanterns are suspended from the ceiling. Also, Hitasugi

walls make intimate space. The private rooms use glass pendant

(designed by Naruhito Inoue) and bamboo ceiling lights (designed

by Hajime Nakatomi).

Designer : Bazik

FEATURE ARTICLE

JAPANESE RESTAURANT 6 SUSHI

TILE

（Page 130)

Located near Kanazawa station, this restaurant serves unique sea

food donburi bowls. The establishment is a remodeled project

based on a 100 years old traditional Japanese style house which

is advantageously located on the back alley and the neighborhood

is full of old restaurants favored by local customers.

To preserve the value of old machiya (Japanese traditional

townhouse), the architect left the existing construction and earth

walls, and he chose “fueki-ryukou (mixture of unchangeability and

openness to new things)”. The earth walls are saved by fixed glass

plates and wooded frame construction uses copper color, as an

accent, quoted from original architectural materials. The designer

emphasizes the texture and values of both old and new materials,

showing harmony of the past and the present. Customers have to

enter the passcodes to enter the restaurant, which makes them

feel like they were in a hideout and appeals to tourists of all ages

from the prefecture.

Designer : SU-BEE + PUBLIC LEAGUE + SCHEME

FEATURE ARTICLE

JAPANESE RESTAURANT 6 SUSHI

HIGASHIAZABU SAIKOH

（Page 142)

Located on the ground floor of a new hotel along a street in

Higashiazabu, Tokyo, Higashiazabu Saikoh is a sushi restaurant

with two counters and wine bar area. The interior of the restaurant,

six meter wide and eight meter deep, is a cavernous space with

cranked aisles. Three spaces gathers around the aisle. The two

sushi counters are separated by a three meter high lattice door,

and the wine bar counter has a vaulted ceiling. The cranked aisle

validly and functionally zones the interior environment, creating a

coexistence of serenity and liveliness.

Designer : MASS & HACHI

FOCUS

UMINO WA

（Page 205)

Umino Wa is a small commercial complex which opened in

Higashisonogi, Nagasaki prefecture. Focusing on a free space in

the center, the building includes local tea cafe, clothing repair

shop, 24-hour coin laundry, etc. The site faces a national road

with heavy traffic, making the most of existing parking lot for

visitors. The building looks symbolic and adapts easy construction

system with a simple diagram, which saved construction cost. The

furniture is simple and manufactured by local people and the

shape echoes to floor plan. Actually, the local residents participated

in the middle of the plan to make this project as open as possible.

Designer : INTERMEDIA

FOCUS

RED° TOKYO TOWER / E-SAUNA UENO

（Page 212)

At the foot of Tokyo Tower, this theme park opened. It is 5600㎡

using the ground level and stories from the third to fifth of a

building named “Foot Town”. It provides indoor physical sports,

virtual sports, mind sports like porker, etc. The establishment also

has a e-sport stadium with world’s most advanced XR technology

for events and competitions.

RED° brand also opened E-SAUNA Ueno in Ueno, Tokyo. It is a

bathing facility designed upon a theme of “keeping in good

shape”, which can be digitalized, and there are private rooms for

one or two persons with water baths. 270° three screens project

woods, rivers, and panoramic sea views and users can experience

forest bathing in virtual manner.

Designer : NOMURA + REAMI + GRIFFON

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