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Double OO ’96 by Case-Real
Japanese designer Koichi Futatsumata of Case-Real has designed an office and showroom in a wooden hut for retailer Alohanine in Fukuoka, Japan.
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The project, called Double OO '96, has been designed within a gabled hut that's an extension of a 50 year old house.
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All interior surfaces are clad in grey wooden tongue-and-groove boards, while the hut's structural framework has been painted white.
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Garments are displayed on a rail around the perimeter of the office.
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Photographs are by Hiroshi Mizusaki.
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Here's some information from the designer:
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DOUBLE OO '96
"White beams"
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There is a small two-storied house which was built a half century ago. And about 40 years ago, a wooden hut with a gable roof was extended on the terrace of the house.
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The project was to make the hut on the terrace into an office & showroom.
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The terrace had been extended without any plans for 40 years, and unplanned big and small frames, such as beams, pillars and bunches were running in the air.At first, I took it very negatively. But when I looked at it from a different position, I realized that it could be a unique object.
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After giving moderate reinforcement, I did a thorough space arrangement by covering all the surfaces, such as floors, walls and garrets with gray painted flooring materials in symmetry.
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Now only the white painted frameworks run in the air inside of the shape of this gable roof hut. This is a garret office & showroom where only the history of the hut itself and the clothes come to the surface.
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Project name: DOUBLE OO '96
Design: Koichi Futatsumata (CASE-REAL)
Client: Alohanine Co., Ltd
Principal use: office & showroom
Site: Fukuoka, Japan
Completion: 2009
Photo: Hiroshi Mizusaki
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