2021 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Harmonia

Entrant Company

MORIYUKI OCHIAI ARCHITECTS

Category

Interior Design - Beauty Salon

Client's Name

Harmonia

Country / Region

Japan

- Echoes of Floating Louvers -

We designed a commercial space combining a beauty salon and a cafe.



Deliverables included three rooms functioning as a cafe, a hair cutting area, and a shampooing area, and arranged in that order from the entrance to the back of a long, slender, cavern-like space. The entire salon is decorated with layered floating louvers and waves of color, aiming to create a space that gently envelops people.



In the standing cafe area, the polygonal openings in the walls and the white ceiling formations dance and resonate in many different directions, creating the lively atmosphere that was required for this space.



In the hair salon area behind the sliding door, white louvers spread across the ceiling, their forms morphing from curves to polygons with intricate expressions, leading you deeper and deeper into the space. Waves of vibrant blue color on the wall drift through the space as if blending with the louvers.



Depending on the position and incidence of the viewer's gaze, the stereoscopic overlapping of the louvers changes dynamically or subtly depending on the angle, and the rich expressions created by the changing layers resonate like something organic and alive, giving the entire space a fresh energy.



In the cave, where the echoes of the floating louvers spread out, the entire space changes its expression continuously as you move further into it, creating a spatial experience with a deepening and shifting depth.



Credits

Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
Moriyuki Ochiai
Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
Jun Ueda
Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
Amit Arunabh
Aslego(Constructor)
Naoki Kajiyama
Special Paint
Osamu Yamaguchi
Koizumi Lighting
Kayo Yokoyama
Photographer
Fumio Araki
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