Hair Atelier Bruno
The hair salon we designed is located on the Ground floor of a 34-year-old building, which is a five-story building with a steel-framed structure, facing the slope near Atami City Hall in Shizuoka Prefecture. Atami City is famous for its hot springs. The site adjacent to the south side (lower side) is a public facility planning site facing the intersection, but it is very open because no building has been built now. So, this building gets a lot of sightlines (even though it does not face the intersection). Also, even if public facilities are built in the future, we considered that it is unlikely the building will be built near the boundary because it is a vast site.
Therefore, we decided to design this hair salon not only for the interior space but also for the landscape. And to connect landscape design to interior design continuously, we chose to use Ku-ki Bei (means air wall). Ku-ki Bei is the wood pole lined up at intervals of about 30 cm, so people can slip through it if they want to. That’s why it can gently separate areas while allowing light, wind and cats to pass through on the other hand. In addition, the sharper the angle between Ku-ki Bei and the line of sight, the more it changes the form from line to surface, blocking the line of sight. Since this hair salon is held in a one-person operation, it was important to secure clear sightlines, and at the same time, it was necessary to softly divide the area in consideration of ensuring the privacy of customers. So the Ku-ki Bei was very effective.
The wood poles were lightly connected with a laser-cut 1.5 mm thick anodized aluminium plate. A part of the connected columns also serves as a fulcrum for rotation, and it is designed to be movable when increasing the number of seats or in some situations. The plan consists, of the entrance, a waiting area, a reception counter, a cut table area divided into left and right, and a shampoo basin area with the floor raised for piping. A semi-circular curtain is also provided in a part of the cutting table area. The area separated by the curtain will be a fitting room for hair setting and dressing Kimono for the ceremony.
The anodized aluminium plate that connects Ku-ki Bei and the pinus radiata laminated wood used for tables, reception counters and benches were cut and drilled as they were from the CAD data we created. This combination has been realized because aluminium is the only thing that can be done, laminated wood is the only thing that can be done, and the hurdles for individual small-quantity production are being lowered by digital fabrication in Japan. So to speak, it is a semi-DIY that we ordered [cutting] and [drilling] from the outside and did [painting] and [assembly] by ourselves. The reason for doing semi-DIY is not only for personal interest in on-site manufacturing, but also for creating a sense of unity with the space, for attention to detail, and scepticism about low cost and excessive assembly of ready-made products. This is due to concerns about the construction industry, which is recently becoming negative for unprecedented manufacturing. While studying drawings, 3D, and mockups, we managed the quantity of a large number of screws, special screws, paints, and hardware with Excel and placed an order.
Detail
Reception counter: The top plate is a 2 mm anodized aluminium plate. The counter for a small bag that is lowered one step is partially fixed while being penetrated by the colonnade. The colonnades are connected by bending plates on the back side (about every 5 columns are fixed to the top and bottom plates by a screw).
Bench: By stacking two 30mm pinus radiata laminated wood that can be processed with a CNC router, it is prevented from bending. (Therefore, no member like a beam is required to suppress bending.) The joint with the leg is made by the original hand-bent L-shaped bracket, which is mainly glued and doughnut-shaped.
Hanger hook: An anodized aluminium plate with two φ45 mm circles connected like a snowman is made by laser cutting and bent by hand around the constricted part.
Mirror: It is designed to hang at two points by making two holes in the mirror through which the hook passes.
Cut table counter: Aluminum and laminated wood are piled up and passed through a wood pole and fixed with the original L-shaped bracket. Aluminium and laminated wood are produced with the same CAD data, so they fit perfectly.
Door hinge: In the storage furniture, the aluminium pipe is one size larger than the wood pole and the aluminium plate is fixed with ultra-low head screws and passed through the pole so that the entire door moves like a big hinge.
Anodized aluminium board connection shelf plate: The pole and the aluminium plate are fixed by bending and fastening the plate in the hole through which the pole passes. In addition, since many shelf plates have similar shapes, numbering was performed using dots.
Plate blank layout: The standard size of the aluminium aluminate plate is 1mx2m, and the standard size of pinus radiata laminated wood is 910mmx1820mm. Among them, we repeated studies on the size, shape, and arrangement of each so that it is possible to cut them with fewer scraps.
Ku-ki Bei (Wood poles): Paint about 1/3 white and the rest clear. And by wiping them off before they dry, we made the boundaries blurred. In landscapes and interiors, it creates the impression that they disappear like steam into the sky and bright ceilings, along with the height difference of the poles.
Concrete Anchor: The partition with a wood pole was fixed with heavy concrete anchors in consideration of future movement and the floor finish of existing buildings. It has a directional teardrop-shaped, and the surface is polka-dotted by using a material with uneven polka dots as the formwork material.
The hair salon we designed is located on the Ground floor of a 34-year-old building, which is a five-story building with a steel-framed structure, facing the slope near Atami City Hall in Shizuoka Prefecture. Atami City is famous for its hot springs. The site adjacent to the south side (lower side) is a public facility planning site facing the intersection, but it is very open because no building has been built now. So, this building gets a lot of sightlines (even though it does not face the intersection). Also, even if public facilities are built in the future, we considered that it is unlikely the building will be built near the boundary because it is a vast site.
Therefore, we decided to design this hair salon not only for the interior space but also for the landscape. And to connect landscape design to interior design continuously, we chose to use Ku-ki Bei (means air wall). Ku-ki Bei is the wood pole lined up at intervals of about 30 cm, so people can slip through it if they want to. That’s why it can gently separate areas while allowing light, wind and cats to pass through on the other hand. In addition, the sharper the angle between Ku-ki Bei and the line of sight, the more it changes the form from line to surface, blocking the line of sight. Since this hair salon is held in a one-person operation, it was important to secure clear sightlines, and at the same time, it was necessary to softly divide the area in consideration of ensuring the privacy of customers. So the Ku-ki Bei was very effective.
The wood poles were lightly connected with a laser-cut 1.5 mm thick anodized aluminium plate. A part of the connected columns also serves as a fulcrum for rotation, and it is designed to be movable when increasing the number of seats or in some situations. The plan consists, of the entrance, a waiting area, a reception counter, a cut table area divided into left and right, and a shampoo basin area with the floor raised for piping. A semi-circular curtain is also provided in a part of the cutting table area. The area separated by the curtain will be a fitting room for hair setting and dressing Kimono for the ceremony.
The anodized aluminium plate that connects Ku-ki Bei and the pinus radiata laminated wood used for tables, reception counters and benches were cut and drilled as they were from the CAD data we created. This combination has been realized because aluminium is the only thing that can be done, laminated wood is the only thing that can be done, and the hurdles for individual small-quantity production are being lowered by digital fabrication in Japan. So to speak, it is a semi-DIY that we ordered [cutting] and [drilling] from the outside and did [painting] and [assembly] by ourselves. The reason for doing semi-DIY is not only for personal interest in on-site manufacturing, but also for creating a sense of unity with the space, for attention to detail, and scepticism about low cost and excessive assembly of ready-made products. This is due to concerns about the construction industry, which is recently becoming negative for unprecedented manufacturing. While studying drawings, 3D, and mockups, we managed the quantity of a large number of screws, special screws, paints, and hardware with Excel and placed an order.
Detail
Reception counter: The top plate is a 2 mm anodized aluminium plate. The counter for a small bag that is lowered one step is partially fixed while being penetrated by the colonnade. The colonnades are connected by bending plates on the back side (about every 5 columns are fixed to the top and bottom plates by a screw).
Bench: By stacking two 30mm pinus radiata laminated wood that can be processed with a CNC router, it is prevented from bending. (Therefore, no member like a beam is required to suppress bending.) The joint with the leg is made by the original hand-bent L-shaped bracket, which is mainly glued and doughnut-shaped.
Hanger hook: An anodized aluminium plate with two φ45 mm circles connected like a snowman is made by laser cutting and bent by hand around the constricted part.
Mirror: It is designed to hang at two points by making two holes in the mirror through which the hook passes.
Cut table counter: Aluminum and laminated wood are piled up and passed through a wood pole and fixed with the original L-shaped bracket. Aluminium and laminated wood are produced with the same CAD data, so they fit perfectly.
Door hinge: In the storage furniture, the aluminium pipe is one size larger than the wood pole and the aluminium plate is fixed with ultra-low head screws and passed through the pole so that the entire door moves like a big hinge.
Anodized aluminium board connection shelf plate: The pole and the aluminium plate are fixed by bending and fastening the plate in the hole through which the pole passes. In addition, since many shelf plates have similar shapes, numbering was performed using dots.
Plate blank layout: The standard size of the aluminium aluminate plate is 1mx2m, and the standard size of pinus radiata laminated wood is 910mmx1820mm. Among them, we repeated studies on the size, shape, and arrangement of each so that it is possible to cut them with fewer scraps.
Ku-ki Bei (Wood poles): Paint about 1/3 white and the rest clear. And by wiping them off before they dry, we made the boundaries blurred. In landscapes and interiors, it creates the impression that they disappear like steam into the sky and bright ceilings, along with the height difference of the poles.
Concrete Anchor: The partition with a wood pole was fixed with heavy concrete anchors in consideration of future movement and the floor finish of existing buildings. It has a directional teardrop-shaped, and the surface is polka-dotted by using a material with uneven polka dots as the formwork material.