和歌山の保養所

A minimal design monolith stands as if confronting the surrounding nature. It is a retreat for a trading company that handles top overseas fashion brands. The facility has a magnificent runway surrounded by clear blue skies and moist air.

Visitors will first experience the void space that runs through a building that is 2.5m width, 2.5m height, and 30m depth. At the end of this elongated space is a white square wall, and on the other side is a mirror of the same shape. They will find themselves here stepping into an extraordinary space. When they open the entrance door, they will enter the hall where everything is finished in white. This space is a minimal design, but it’s comfortable because of the plastering unevenness that the craftsmen hand-finished. In the space surrounded by white, the stairs taken out from the wall float as if they lost gravity, attracting visitors to the second floor. From the skylight opened in the ceiling just after climbing the stairs, a bright line of light runs inside the building at a certain time. It seems to be a symbol of the overflowing energy of nature that has entered the quiet space.

When they go up to the second floor from the ground floor where the opening was narrowed to the minimum, they will reach the open deck with an infinite blue sky behind it, and they will be in a spacious space at once. Quiet buzz such as breeze, swaying trees, voices of insects, etc. fill the air on the second floor. At the time of the event, it transforms into a gorgeous runway. The background of the runway is the surrounding nature and the wall of Aji stone that emerges from the surface of the pool. The contrast between eternity and moment is highlighted between the stone, which is a symbol of immutability, and the world of fashion, which is passing by.