Mayuzuki Kimono Store / Tsutsumi & Associates

Textual content description supplied by the architects. Marusho was based in Yokohama 55 years in the past. We have been accountable for the renovation design of the 1st-floor gross sales flooring, staircase, and façade, in continuation of final 12 months’s second-floor clothes space. In distinction to the 2nd flooring, which was primarily a proper Kimono for weddings, the first flooring shows 3 varieties of Kimono that are Furisode for coming-of-age ceremonies, Hakama for commencement ceremonies, and Shichi-Go-San for youths.

The façade earlier than the renovation had a curved wall with white tiles, which didn’t match the picture of the Kimono. Because of this, we added a gate-shaped construction to cover the curved wall, and a straight wall lined with an exposed-aggregate end parallel to the highway was created. Peeler louvers are put in on the half dealing with the staircase to softly block the road of sight. The inside partitions of the staircase are fitted with noncombustible ribbed panels of Douglas fir, emphasizing the sharp verticality, and the gold leaf fabric on the ceiling creates a unprecedented sense of luxurious.

So as to stop totally different buyer teams from mixing within the room, we deliberate to encompass the central gross sales space in a sq. nested state. The encircling space within the heart is for the Hakama gross sales space, the 2 sides of the outer periphery are for Furisode, and one aspect is for the Shichi-Go-San. The peak of fixtures is saved to 1.8m to cut back the strain. The assembly space faces a shelf for Obi sashes and equipment in order that clients can simply prepare the chosen Kimono. The accent shelf is a mix of Kumiko lattice and linden peg board to realize each free show and design.

We studied to make a light-weight construction like a crescent with tapering the sting of the arches which have been bridged between the present beams on the ceiling. The arches are lined with wood veneer, and the vaults are painted white and illuminated with oblique lighting to spotlight the construction. The crescent arch continues from the doorway to the again of the store, strongly attracting the road of sight. Whereas the design of the 2nd flooring was aware of ritual, we wished to create a light-weight and beneficiant house on the first flooring. Trying on the repetitive two rows of slight arches, it looks as if an eyebrow. Due to this fact, we borrowed one other Japanese identify for the crescent and determined to name this mission “Mayuzuki”.