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Osaka, Japan
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KURUTO
Osaka, Japan
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
This project involves the renovation of the ground floor of a residential building in Minami-Horie, Osaka. It is an in-house project planned, designed, and operated by the architectural office KURU.
The site consists of two adjoining units next to the firm’s own office. These spaces had long seen tenants—offices and warehouses—come and go. When both units became vacant at the same time, KURU seized the opportunity to start the project.
As an architectural practice that handles everything from concept to operation, KURU aimed to create a place that fosters collaboration with partners, engages the local community in everyday life, and remains financially sustainable. To achieve this, the program was defined around three uses: retail, shared office, and gallery.
The retail space offers a diverse range of products, the gallery hosts various exhibitions, and the shared office brings together designers from different disciplines such as architecture and graphics. Rather than pursuing a single symbolic design, the team sought a distributed, multi-focal space that could naturally embrace this diversity.
Within the existing interior, elements such as the rhythm of concrete blocks lining a rough wall, the new sense of depth created by removing partitions, and traces of the area’s history as a timber district offered rich layers of context at multiple scales. By reinterpreting and scattering these existing elements throughout the space, the design aims to evoke a landscape-like composition where these fragments coexist in harmony.
The retail and office areas share one unit to encourage interaction and activity, while the gallery occupies the other. Layered plywood fixtures inspired by the neighborhood’s history, and slender steel shelving that accentuates the raw concrete structure, are examples of how existing elements were re-edited and recombined with new uses to shape the character of the space.
Architectural practices naturally connect a variety of people—designers, craftsmen, clients, and communities. By operating its own space, KURU envisions this project as a platform where new relationships can form and diverse activities can intertwine, gently expanding the network of collaboration and creativity.
The site consists of two adjoining units next to the firm’s own office. These spaces had long seen tenants—offices and warehouses—come and go. When both units became vacant at the same time, KURU seized the opportunity to start the project.
As an architectural practice that handles everything from concept to operation, KURU aimed to create a place that fosters collaboration with partners, engages the local community in everyday life, and remains financially sustainable. To achieve this, the program was defined around three uses: retail, shared office, and gallery.
The retail space offers a diverse range of products, the gallery hosts various exhibitions, and the shared office brings together designers from different disciplines such as architecture and graphics. Rather than pursuing a single symbolic design, the team sought a distributed, multi-focal space that could naturally embrace this diversity.
Within the existing interior, elements such as the rhythm of concrete blocks lining a rough wall, the new sense of depth created by removing partitions, and traces of the area’s history as a timber district offered rich layers of context at multiple scales. By reinterpreting and scattering these existing elements throughout the space, the design aims to evoke a landscape-like composition where these fragments coexist in harmony.
The retail and office areas share one unit to encourage interaction and activity, while the gallery occupies the other. Layered plywood fixtures inspired by the neighborhood’s history, and slender steel shelving that accentuates the raw concrete structure, are examples of how existing elements were re-edited and recombined with new uses to shape the character of the space.
Architectural practices naturally connect a variety of people—designers, craftsmen, clients, and communities. By operating its own space, KURU envisions this project as a platform where new relationships can form and diverse activities can intertwine, gently expanding the network of collaboration and creativity.
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