In a time when the extended usage of the existing building stock has become an important aspect of the design practice, a thorough observation, insight and imagination, in respect to the existing conditions and possibilities, is needed when designing an extension or renovation, even more so than is required for the design of a new building. Above all, rather than just simply designing objects, it has become desirable to integrate newly created relations into the design in response to the existing site conditions.
As Vision hairdressing salon has been extended and refurbished several times until the present, the various aspects of each age certainly create deep and rich layers in outside and inside of the space. Large tables of 3m, 5m and 7m are set up as new elements between inside and outside, Beyond the simple private function in the hair salon, those create new relations with time, human, and space that people could not experience in the hairdressing salon.