EXP 1 SUBMISSION

KIMURA - ONO

This is a workshop/showroom space for Japanese motorbike designer and maker Shinya Kimura and Japanese sushi chef Jiro Ono. The workshop spaces above ground are for Kimura and feature both enclosed workshop/storage spaces as well as open air working and display spaces. These areas often double as walkways allowing people to experience Kimura's work from many different angles. Jiro Ono's kitchen and preparation spaces are located underground, these are accessed by two enclosed stairways that pass through dark corridors giving a sense of anticipation as one enters Ono's space where he daily goes through many particular processes and steps to create the world's finest sushi. There is a mezzanine level that hangs between the ground level and underground kitchen and this is where visitors are served their sushi, from here they can observe the immense attention to detail of Ono and his team. Although each artist's space is individual and separate, they are connected through open indoor/outdoor spaces and vantage points. This allows visitors a unique experience in this space where they will get a sense of each artist's different craft whilst simultaneously realising the great knowledge, skill, commitment and attention to detail that draws the two together here.


THREE IMAGES

The custom textures I have included are: 

sparse, aggregate and caged (see "36 TEXTURES" post for close up images) 

TWO SECTIONS

 experience - Kimura

scrupulous - Ono

These are my original sections that I devised from the words experience and scrupulous. Although the final developed sketchup model differs slightly from these sections, I believe the concepts surrounding the words are still strong. Experience in that Shinya Kimura believes it is not only about the motorbike, but the experience of riding it and the feeling one has while riding. This is captured in the streamline ramps throughout the building, as one has to traverse the whole space and experience the landscape to enter the building. Scrupulous for Jiro Ono because of the immense attention to detail he pays in his process of preparing and crafting his sushi. He believes things should be done in a very specific way and I believe the very specific architectural articulation down the stairs through the preparation areas and back up into the serving area evokes this. There are smaller enclosed areas and then larger connecting ones that mirror Ono's humble philosophy and way of working as well as his immense success. 

ANIMATIONS