Home of an Apparel Designer
Kamakura-city, Kanagawa, Japan
This is a residence with an attached atelier for a designer couple who create avant-garde apparel. This project attempts to extend the fashion techniques of “shifting,” “removing,” and “breaking down” into architecture. Finishing materials were ordered precisely to exact quantities, deliberately avoiding excess. On-site shortages or surpluses were addressed through improvisation, introducing deliberate “shifts” at inside and outside corners. This departure from conventional detailing simultaneously reduces material waste. The floor plan aligns with this approach, with function cores finished in different materials arranged as if stitched into the open-plan space. These operations, drawn from the context of fashion, aim to add critical depth to the relationship between architecture and materials, questioning spatial homogeneity and design norms.
- Year
- 2024
- Project Status
- Built
