ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe by Lorena Antea Caruana and Naoki Watanabe

ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe by Lorena Antea Caruana and Naoki Watanabe is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Rino in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

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ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe

by Lorena Antea Caruana and Naoki Watanabe

Client: Hi-Dea

A' Design Award Rino Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe

He wharenui kutikuti makawe a ZENustas kei Yaizu, e tata ana ki Maunga Fuji i Hapani. Ko te roanga o roto, 80 mita pūrua, kua hangaia mai i ngā rauemi matua e rua: te MDF whakaoti rākau pouri me te wharangi pepa pakitara mā ka taea te horoi, ka wehea e tētahi rārangi whakapae kei te teitei o te tēpu. He pakitara ahua tino nui, e whakamāramatia ana mai i muri, hangaia mai i te polycarbonate, e pupuru ana i ngā tipu, ā, e homai ana i tētahi whakamāoritanga hōu mō ngā mata whare pepa raiti tuku iho o Hapani. Ka whakapai ake anō hoki taua pakitara ahua nui i te māramatanga e tae atu ana ki ngā kiritaki e noho ana i mua i ngā whakaata. Ko ngā pakitara poto tū takitahi, kua whakatakotoria ki ngā whakaata ahu whakamua, e whakanui ake ana i te maha o ngā tūranga mahi, ā, e ārahi ana hoki i te rere o ngā kiritaki.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Rino

Ko ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe te toa o te A' Design Award Rino, he whakaaetanga whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa pai e whakatutuki ana i ngā hiahia ngaio me te ahumahi e tūmanakohia ana mai i ngā mahi kua hoahoatia pai. Ko ngā toa Rino e whakaatu ana i te pukenga nui, te tohungatanga teitei, te māramatanga mātanga me te kaha auaha o ō rātou kaihanga. E tūmanakohia ana ko ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe he mahi whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he whaihua, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Rino e whakakotahi ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa o te ahumahi, ā, he āhuatanga hangarau pūkenga tōna e hono ana ki te mōhio me te pūmanawa. E whakahonoretia ana a ZENustas Wharenui Kutikuti Makawe mō tōna tōtika, ā, i hoahoatia hei whakapai ake i te kounga o te oranga me te āwhina i te ao kia pai ake.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Yaizu is a town located near Mount Fuji in Japan. Here, the Natural space bursts into the Urban one defining highly suggestive scenarios.
Similarly, in the Beauty Salon, Nature is brought into the space adding an iconic touch to the interiors. The backlit feature wall in polycarbonate is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese rice paper facades. This wall, hosting dimensional plants, is also a tribute to the traditional Japanese painting, setting a bold contrast between figure and background.
Dimensions & Packaging: The 80 square meters space is mainly composed of two materials: MDF with a Dark wood finish and White washable wallpaper. By defining a horizontal datum line at the height of the tables, the two materials separate the lower from the upper part of the space providing a simple and yet contemporary look to the space. LED lighting used in the store increases efficiency while reducing the costs and the dimmable lights support the energy saving by interacting with the daylight.
Tags: japanese interiors, japalian, zen-ustas, hi-dea interiors, italian japanese design, japan hair salon
Production Technology: The Hair Salon reflects a simple shape language where only a few materials compose the space, reaching the essential.
The construction processes have been reduced by using standardized furniture and repeated simple bespoke elements in natural materials, while the whole renovation has been completed in 7 days.
The wall with backlit panels in polycarbonate is the standing out feature element, the more expressive and articulated-looking component of the space. This wall aims to improve the light exposure to the customers seating in front of the mirror, defining intense and diffuse lighting.
Design Challenge: A challenging point of the design has been understanding the relevant architectural elements of the Japanese tradition and translate them into a space with a contemporary look and feel and destination. The use of the oriented short walls, coming from the Western tradition produces an almost circular customer flow, enriching the straightness of accesses and paths so typical of the Japanese tradition.
The rounded shape language, loaned by the Italian architectural tradition completes the straight-looking pure geometry typical of this area, while providing surprising touchpoints.
Research: Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings, the Beauty Salon aims to reflect on the idea of Threshold in Japanese traditional architecture: the space between outside and inside. In this space, the Threshold is represented by the feature wall with nature and backlit panels. Located to be visible from the outside, the feature wall invites the customers to access the space to explore the new functions.
Inspiration: ZENustas is a word composed by merging the Japanese word Zen, meaning All, with the Latin word Venustas, the word for Beauty. The space aims to celebrate various forms of beauty, from natural one, proper of the Zen culture, to human-made beauty. The inclusive space is composed of Eastern and Western Architectural languages that synergistically shape the Interiors shaping a vibrant but still relaxing space.
Project Duration: ZENustas Hair Salon is located in Yaizu, in proximity of the Mount Fuji in Japan. The project lasted 3 months while the construction phase lasted 7 days only.
Operation Flow: ZENustas Hair Salon's design reflects a holistic approach.
The wooden floor texture orientation creates a more intuitive customer journey that, from the entrance, naturally leads the customer towards the hairdressing stations. The wooden floor texture settles with the direction of the freestanding vertical short walls, providing consistency to the space. These oriented walls serve different purposes: increasing the number of available stations by optimizing the use of the space and, through the oriented mirrors, providing customers with the possibility of looking at the surrounding without leaving their chairs.
Team Members: Lead Architect: Lorena Antea Caruana
Lead Local Architect: Naoki Watanabe
Image Credits: Image #No.1: Lorena Antea Caruana (Photo credits / Architect)
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Image #No.4: Lorena Antea Caruana (Photo credits / Architect)