Type:Cake Shop/Location:Matsumoto,Nagano,Japan/Design:2016-2017/Construction:2017/Structure:steel/Contractor:Shimizu-kensetsu/Total floor area:61m2
5HORNはイオンモール松本/空庭1Ｆに出店した約19坪の洋菓子店。クライアントは上高地で宿泊施設を運営しており、それに関連したレストランや洋菓子店を松本の市街地においても数店営んでいる。当該テナント区画はメイン動線、フードコート、2Ｆシネコンへのエスカレーターの三方に開かれている。このジャンクションのような場所は上高地の宿泊施設の敷地とも特徴が同じであり、今回はそれをデザインの拠りどころとした。宿泊施設は上高地の中心を流れる梓川と支流である清水川の合流地点にある。またそこには吊橋（河童橋）が掛かり、そこからの穂高連峰の山並みは、上高地を代表とする景観である。今回はこれらの自然環境を多層な影を用いて表現することを試みた。丸鋼管と微細な影をつくりだす全ネジの組み合わせにより川の流れと山並みを、床に落ちた影で水面を、ブラスト加工のミラーと多層な丸鋼で霧を、不均質な手仕事による商品棚で雲を表している。身体との距離が近づきやすい曲線を軸とした丸鋼管の間を移動することで、遷り変わる微細な影をより体感できる仕組みとなっている。
This cake shop is approximately 60m2 and sits in a shopping mall located in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan. In the the Kamikochi region – an area renowned for its picturesque mountain landscape -the client operates a mountain resort and other related shops and restaurants. The space for the cake shop is open to three sides – to the main circulation area, to the adjacent dinning area, and to the lifts that lead to the cinema complex on the first floor. And the mountain resort is located at the confluence of the Azusa River which flows through the center of Kamikochi and its tributary, the Shimizu River. A suspension bridge, called the Kappa Bridge, is built over this point and provides a truthfully spectacular view of the Hotaka mountains with their peaks that represent the region. We found that the spatial standpoint the shop has to the three sides in the shopping mall is similar to that of the mountain resort at the junction. This spatial similarity has given us a hint which had become the basis of our creation for this opportunity. We have aimed to express the magnificent wild environment through the use of multilayered shadows. The combination of the smoothness of round steel pipes and intricate texture of the threaded pipes creates subtle shadows expressing the flow of the river and the mountain range and the layered shadows reminiscent of the surface of water. Blast finished mirrors and layers of round steel create an atmospheric view like fog with heterogeneous handmade shelves suspended like clouds. The round poles arranged in a curve are easy to approach, and as the distance to the body narrows, one can experience the changing of faint shadows.