Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计 by Takuji Kamio

Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计 by Takuji Kamio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铜室内· 2022

Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计

by Takuji Kamio

Client: Cups Kamakura & the lounge

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计

Cups Kamakura 是一处兼具酒店功能的咖啡餐厅室内设计项目。建筑坐落于日本镰仓,面朝大海,设计灵感源自水的意象。设计师以水为原型创作了图形元素,并通过对色彩平衡、阳光反射与材料选择的细致推敲,将其运用于咖啡厅与酒店空间之中。由于建筑已有五十余年历史,设计拆除了天花板饰面,令原有的木结构得以显露。木材以透明亮光漆饰面处理,并新增了钢制支撑构件。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Cups Kamakura 咖啡厅与酒店室内设计出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Because the property is facing to the ocean, Kamio tried to expand the inspirations from water linked images. He made several graphics concerning to water and transformed the inspired images to attempt into cafe & hotel spaces by carefully dealing with color balance, sunlight reflection, and material selection.
Dimensions & Packaging: Gross Floor Area : 230 sqm
Tags: gluten free cafe, kamakura, ocean front hotel, Japanese resort hotel, private hotel
Production Technology: Kamio vailed off the all ceiling panels and showed the existing historical structures. He painted the wooden structures with clear glossy lacquer while adding steal supporting structures.
Design Challenge: One of the hardest parts in the design activity was structural preservation work. It was necessary to add new supporting structure to keep the enough building strength beside showing the original beautiful structure frames. It was very important to carefully match the old and new structure characteristics such as shape, color, and material in the space design balance.
Research: In building studies, the team took off the most of exterior and interior panels and checked the existing conditions. Also, in market studies, they researched the over 100 neighbor hotels and restaurants and tried to figure out the tendency of price, design, and atmosphere.
Inspiration: Cups Kamakura is a cafe restaurant, which also has the hotel function, located in front of a beach. The building has have more than 50 years history, and in the design works it was necessary to consider its special background influenced by the regionality and environmental aspects.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 and finished in July 2020 in Kamakura Japan.
Operation Flow: Because the building was already 50 years old, Kamio needed to work carefully on preservation and reproduction works. They proceeded demolition step by step, and decided the design details on each time depending on the area condition.
Patents: ICHII KAMIODESIGN
Team Members: Takuji Kamio
Ray Keida
Image Credits: ICHII KAMIODESIGN