holon

Chigasaki, Japan

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holon

Chigasaki, Japan

Firm

ageha.

Type

Commercial › Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Wellness/Spa

YEAR

2012

There is a hair salon, which is situated in a residential area, around a ten minute walk from Tsujido Station.
The owner, who was actively working in Harajuku, wanted a place in his hometown Chigasaki. He wanted such a place, because he had been considering making closer ties with the community since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
In addition to a one-way service to only cut hair, it forms a community which provides an interactive platform to make it possible to disseminate information with each other.
Men and women both young and old, people of all occupations visit the hair salon, as it carries the potential to create various opportunities. So the owner selected as the place of the activity a vacant house, which used be a greengrocer that was part of the community. It was a place where information was exchanged, playing the role of the locale bulletin board, not just a daily shopping. We inherited this culture and planed the design process which could create a forum for further transmission.
We have left intact the hollow, box-like structure of the building with a wide open front, which is peculiar to greengrocer, and added large sliding doors. When the sliding doors are open, the boundary between the inside and outside disappears for the building to become an integral part of the town.
Hair salon factors in the building are made movable as much as possible to give it a flexible, extra space. This extra space provides local artists with a place to exhibit their works or do live performances, or a marketplace, as a public space for communication. This space also allows the beauticians to cut visitors’ hair anywhere they feel comfortable.
The aim is to convey the bustle inside the building to passers-by and give a tool to communicate with the town.

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holon

Chigasaki, Japan

holon

Chigasaki, Japan

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