nimbus Cafe and lifestyle store / LoHA + Fukui University of Technology
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https://www.archdaily.com/en/993575/nimbus-cafe-and-lifestyle-shop-loha-plus-fukui-university-of-technology Area Area of this architecture project
Area :
155 m²
Year Year of completion of this architecture project
Year :
2022
Photographs Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
Manufacturers : toli, Aica Kogyo Company, SK Kaken, Sanwa, Tarkett, Union Corporation Japan
Principal Architects:
Hiroshi Yamada, Toshitaka Shimizu
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Descriptive text provided by the architects. Nimbus is a scarf and lifestyle store located in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture. This building was originally a house designed by Arata Isozaki in 1985. This time, the building was renovated into a store. The exposed concrete framework (1050mm grid and ceiling dome) with the strong formality of the existing Isozaki architecture is compared to “heaven”, and the activities of the people below are compared to “earth”.
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Plan
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The intent was to create a flexible merchandise display with soft variations, such as scarves and sundries that float between heaven and earth like clouds. (Large table that can be recombined, round rings on the wall to hang cables) We are refining the surface so that the existing frame and products like scarves coexist, such as repainting the existing accessory counter, reupholstering the floor and finishing new accessories. .
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Main surface adjustment:
The dimensions of the light fixtures were set as a copy of the 1050 grid that was also used for the exposed panels. White and silver melamine veneers are used on the tabletop to highlight both the scarf and the concrete frame. We use lauan veneer, which deteriorates easily over time, in places where people might touch it, sit on it, or feel a sense of physical scale. 
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Section
© Kyohei Noda The counter door between the hard gray concrete wall and the soft tile carpet floor uses a saran speaker that mediates between conflicting textures and is placed in front of the marble wall texture opposite. In the corridor surrounded by concrete walls, a soft garden-like moss tile carpet is placed, and the gray material makes the scarf stand out. A series of round rings attached to the wall are installed as a device to stretch wires and make scarves and other things dance.
Through the refinement of the surface, an architecture was born where hardness and softness coexist.
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