Someone said, "This is a cocoon.
On the other hand, what about hotels?
Interior view of each hotel room.
Oka:As you mentioned the tenants, if the basement and the ground floor are the "dynamic" part of this facility, the hotel rooms are the opposite, playing the role of the "static" part. The design was created by a Swedish team called "CKR," and among the many hotels I've seen, theirs is something I've never seen before.
The first thing that catches your eye when you enter the room is a cylindrical indigo-dyed curtain. The gradation gets darker from the bottom to the top, and there is a bed hidden inside the curtain in the middle of the room.
It's a very bold structure.
Oka:I don't remember who started it, but we were saying, "This is a cocoon. I think it would be a rich way to end the day, not to go to bed excited by the various stimuli of the dynamic part of the day, but to think about what happened that day and swallow it before ending the day. I think this is a place where you can do that.
Honma:. As for the rooms, we went with the same concept from the beginning without any changes. What is interesting is that CKR does not draw perspective drawings until the very end. The presentation was based only on rough materials, so our imagination could not catch up with it at first.
Oka:They come to Japan about once every two months, and each time they bring samples of materials. There were samples of orange carpet, wood color, colored glass, etc., and they would explain to us, "The room is a combination of this and that," and we would say, "What? What is that? We could only respond with something like, "What?
Matsui:They come up with moodboards that look like that. But I have seen moodboards for many projects, and CKR's was the coolest!
Oka:Usually, they show me a more concrete picture of what they are going to do.
Honma:"Are the curtains tubular?" Is that a sofa with a red butt?" . But as the project progressed, we gradually caught up with it and said, "Isn't this really cool? But as the project progressed, we gradually caught up with it and began to think, "This is really cool! We thought, "This is really cool!
. In the end, it's all about trust, isn't it? Their personalities are very good, the things they have done in the past are good, and the clothes they wear are cool. . They had the persuasive power to make us believe that they would be okay.
Matsui:What is amazing about them is that they are capable of designing everything from small objects to buildings, such as the small stools we are sitting on now and even the pencils provided in hotels. They are capable of designing everything from small objects to buildings, and even if their designs become larger, the quality of the details does not deteriorate. That is amazing. They also designed beer glasses for Brooklyn, but we decided not to use them because of their durability.
Honma:There are lots of back stories like that (laughs).
