A flower shop made solely of materials, embraced by a sea of rice plants
The site, surrounded by rice paddies, is a five-minute walk from Kazo Station. We were commissioned to design a building that would serve as a flower shop. We believed that architecture for handling plants should involve only the minimum necessary gestures, and that both its formation and its materials should be close to nature. The building is composed solely of wood, glass, concrete, and metal, all left exposed.
The building consists simply of structural walls required for its stability, with a gabled roof placed on top. Inside, the structural walls align, while outside they vary in length, creating spaces for plants, fixtures, and furniture on both sides of the walls. To protect the plants and the building itself from the summer sun and heavy rain, thin, deeply projecting eaves cast random shadows across the undulating exterior walls, enriching the building’s chiaroscuro. Set apart from the surrounding houses, this flower shop resembles a hut standing alone in a wilderness.
Use and scale: Flower shop, single-story wooden building
Site area: 914.09 m²
Construction area: 62.03 m²
Structural design: Daisuke Hasegawa Structural Planning｜Daisuke Hasegawa, Mayumi Yasuda
Construction: Ozawa Industry｜Junichi Okada, Norihiko Takazawa, Hikarin Ōtsuka
