SHOTENKENCHIKU /February
2022/01/28 2022
February 2022, SUMMARY
SHOTENKENCHIKU is monthly magazine of Japanese interior design / store design / commercial architecture
NEW SHOP & ENVIRONMENT
KAI POROTO
（Page 40)
This hot spring ryokan accommodation introduced culture and
lifestyle of Ainu, indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the
Kuril Islands. The building is located in Shiraoi, Hokkaido is known
as a former settlement of Ainu and the lake Poroto. The project
site, with a view of Tarumae Mountain in the distance, is near
outdoor exhibition of the settlement of Upopoy National Ainu
Museum and Park. Also, the site has a spring that Ainu once used,
so the architect designed a hallway to the ryokan along a river. On
the lake side of the guest room building straddling the river has a
canoe wharf and a sunken lounge with irori hearth where people
see antifreeze water surface. A guest room quoted Ainu family
style with a hearth and a low table and sofa with indirect lighting.
On the shore of the lake, the ryokan has a hot spring cottage
called “Sankaku-no-yu” which used tripod structure with
assembled logs. Birch, representing Hokkaido, is called “mother
tree”, for it protects other plants and enrich the nature. This
establishment used a lot of use in and out of the building,
protecting and foster Ainu culture.
Designer : Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
SPECIAL FEATURE 1
HOTEL
Korinkyo
（Page 58)
Located in Korinbo, Kanazawa city, Korinkyo is a conversion
project of a gallery built in 1971 to make a new boutique hotel with
18 rooms. Making the most of the existing facade with arches, the
building has arched shear walls in there. A distillation machine is
symbolically placed at the entrance of the building, focusing on
the distillation process in the pharmaceutical industry, given the
history of the area where eye drops were once made. The purified
product will be developed into hotel amenities and products.
Other intriguing features about the hotel includes rooftop sauna,
sign plates by famous Kutaniyaki ceramicist, good old furnishing
curated by local antique shop, Hokuriku region’s first isolation
tanks. The hotel guests experience something specials that can
be here only.
Designer : HITOTOMORI ARCHITECTS
SPECIAL FEATURE 1
HOTEL
SOKI ATAMI
（Page 84)
SOKI ATAMI, surrounded by green, has panoramic views of the
ocean and offer modern hotel life. UDS planned and designed this
project and the interiors of reception room, big bath and teaceremony
room was created by TONERICO. The designers
carefully selected natural materials to stimulate sense of territory
and spatial unconscious of Japanese people. A restaurant,
designed with another design office age, looks full of energy. A
big volume space, surrounding a satoniwa garden, used wood
panels, rice papers, and other natural materials. A big roof with
black corrosion finish with hot-dip galvan makes a symbol of this
hotel and wild barbecue restaurant with hearths impresses
visitors. Areas are composed functionally to show varied
sequence and articulation of the building, which let guest expect
great experience.
Designer : UDS TONERICO age
SPECIAL FEATURE 1
HOTEL
SEVEN STORIES
（Page 124)
Located in Nagoya city, this is an eight-story accommodations
with special architectural tastes. There are seven rooms in this
building, one for each floor from the second floor to the eighth
floor and each guest room can accommodate up to five people.
The interior of each room was designed by different architects
who are knowledgeable about crafts and culture of Aichi
prefecture and show their refined resolutions. The room named
“irori” on the fourth story, for example, quoted “magemono”, craft
for useful type of wooden objects from local craftmanship of
Kiyosu region, installed a big wooden circle on the ceiling. The
circle makes a low wall when a user stand. “Memory of Shapes”
room on the sixth story, inspired by Arimatsu-shibori tie-dying
fabric product of local traditional craft, the designer, extracting
unevenness and shows of the dying pattern by 3D scanner,
copied the images on tabletop board by laser cutter.
Designer : MIZUNO SEITOEN LAB. + rhyme design + Niimori
Jamison + 1-1 Architects + matomato + zelt + ambientdesigns
SPECIAL FEATURE 2
MAKE A BASE WHERE PEOPLE GET TOGETHER 7
SOIL SETODA
（Page 200)
Located near the entrance of shopping street in Ikuchijima,
Hiroshima prefecture, this complex building was designed to have
inn, cafe, restaurant, and tourist information center. This project
includes renovation of 140 years old warehouse, called “KURA”,
for salt storage and newly built establishment called “LIVING”.
The two buildings face each other across a road. “LIVING”,
restaurant and inn, has a big glazed opening on the ground floor
through which visitors can enjoy panoramic views of the sea and
there are tiered bleachers for both local people and tourist who
can chat over coffee. In contrast to this, “KURA” as tourist
information and shop, making the most of the existing historical
parts of the architecture, shows reliable and profound atmosphere
in reinforced structure. Thanks to both buildings, people cheerfully
go to local taverns and use public bath Azumi Setoda (see the
2021 May issue of Shotenkenchiku) in the neighborhood, which
leads the regional revitalization.
Designer : HORIUCHI INATOMI ARCHITECTS + STUDIO DIG.
SPECIAL FEATURE 2
MAKE A BASE WHERE PEOPLE GET TOGETHER 7
MIRAI CONVENIENCE STORE
（Page 214)
This convenience store was born in Kito a small town with a
population of 1,000 in Tokushima prefecture. The store makes a
crucial infrastructural core, the local people come here to buy
daily necessities and pay utility bills, and motorcyclists take breaks
here to communicate local people sometimes. The store actually
meets a variety of demands. Truss structure is painted yellow that
is the color of yuzu (citron), one of local specialties and people
feel familiar with it. The store has inside a small coffee shop where
they could hold workshops and other events, and it make the store
open to the public so that local people can sense what is
happening here.
Designer : KOKUYO
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