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ZENustas ہیئر سیلون by Lorena Antea Caruana and Naoki Watanabe

ZENustas ہیئر سیلون by Lorena Antea Caruana and Naoki Watanabe is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award آہنی انعام in داخلی جگہ اور نمائش ڈیزائن Competition Category.


لوہاداخلی سجاوٹ· 2022

ZENustas ہیئر سیلون

by Lorena Antea Caruana and Naoki Watanabe

Client: Hi-Dea

A' Design Award آہنی انعام Winner in داخلی سجاوٹ Category

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The Design

About ZENustas ہیئر سیلون

ZENustas ایک ہیئر سیلون ہے جو جاپان میں کوہِ فیوجی کے قریب یائیزو میں واقع ہے۔ 80 مربع میٹر کا یہ داخلی حصہ بنیادی طور پر دو مٹیریلز سے تشکیل پایا ہے: گہری لکڑی کی فنش والا MDF اور سفید قابلِ دھلائی وال پیپر، جنہیں میز کی بلندی پر ایک اُفقی لکیر کے ذریعے ایک دوسرے سے جدا کیا گیا ہے۔ پولی کاربونیٹ سے بنی، پیچھے سے روشن ہونے والی ایک نمایاں دیوار پودوں کو سہارا دیتی ہے اور روایتی جاپانی چاول کے کاغذ (رائس پیپر) کے اگواڑوں کی ایک عصری تعبیر پیش کرتی ہے۔ یہ نمایاں دیوار آئینوں کے سامنے بیٹھے گاہکوں تک پہنچنے والی روشنی کو بھی بہتر بناتی ہے۔ رخ متعین کیے گئے آئینوں کے ساتھ آزادانہ کھڑی چھوٹی دیواریں اسٹیشنوں کی تعداد بڑھاتی ہیں اور گاہکوں کی آمد و رفت کو راہ دکھاتی ہیں۔

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award آہنی انعام

ZENustas ہیئر سیلون A' Design Award آہنی انعام کا فاتح ہے، جو ان اچھے ڈیزائنز کو دیا جانے والا باوقار اعتراف ہے جو اچھی طرح ڈیزائن کی گئی تخلیقات سے متوقع پیشہ ورانہ اور صنعتی تقاضوں کو پورا کرتے ہیں۔ آہنی انعام کے فاتحین اپنے تخلیق کاروں کی عظیم مہارت، اعلیٰ تخصص، ماہرانہ فہم اور تخلیقی صلاحیت کو ظاہر کرتے ہیں۔ ZENustas ہیئر سیلون سے توقع کی جاتی ہے کہ وہ ایک نہایت قدر کی جانے والی، سراہی جانے والی اور عزیز تخلیق ہوگا جو عملی اور جدید ہے۔ A' Design Award آہنی انعام جیتنے والا یہ ڈیزائن صنعت کے بہترین طریقوں کو یکجا کرتا ہے اور مہارت اور ہنر سے جڑی ہوئی قابل تکنیکی خصوصیات رکھتا ہے۔ ZENustas ہیئر سیلون اپنی باریک بینی کی وجہ سے قابل احترام ہے اور معیار زندگی کی ایسی بہتری فراہم کرنے کے لیے ڈیزائن کیا گیا ہے جو دنیا کو ایک بہتر جگہ بنانے میں مدد دیتی ہے۔

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)
Image #No.2: Lorena Antea Caruana (Photo credits / Architect)
Image #No.3: Lorena Antea Caruana (Photo credits / Architect)
Image #No.4: Lorena Antea Caruana (Photo credits / Architect)
Image #No.4: Lorena Antea Caruana (Photo credits / Architect)

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