Freitag retailer in Kyoto is designed to resemble the model’s personal warehouse
Hazard traces and metallic shelving are among the industrial finishes that Torafu Architects has included in bag model Freitag‘s retailer in Kyoto – which even consists of its personal workshop.
Freitag‘s Kyoto retailer, which is shortlisted within the small retail inside class of the 2020 Dezeen Awards, occupies what was previously two separate retail models within the metropolis’s Nakagyo-ku district.
The interiors of the shop have been designed by Torafu Architects to seem like Freitag’s logistics warehouse on the model’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.
Industrial-style particulars have been integrated all through the 80-square-metre house, which the structure apply mentioned they left in a “skeleton state”. For instance, black-and-yellow hazard traces have been painted round one of many retailer’s structural columns.
Related traces seem beneath the inexperienced money desk. Simply reverse sits an identical rubber-topped counter the place prospects will have the ability to set down and examine any potential purchases.
PVC flap curtains have been used to display screen off the store’s storeroom, which is enclosed by a quantity clad in wood-wool boards. Easy strip lights have additionally been fitted throughout the ceiling.
Luggage are displayed on metallic cabinets or on high of pallets which have been stacked up within the retailer’s entrance window.
Uniform rows of drawers that run throughout all the left-hand aspect of the shop comprise extra Freitag luggage, every of which is crafted from recycled truck tarpaulin.
The model first removes any eyelets or straps left on the tarps earlier than chopping, washing and turning them into a variety of various bag fashions corresponding to backpacks, totes or holdalls.
In the direction of the rear of the shop is a workshop, the place prospects will have the ability to experiment with utilizing tarp offcuts themselves and switch them right into a small accent of their alternative.
Extra industrial touches seem on Freitag’s facade, the place a red-steel beam has been put in rather than the wall that when divided the 2 retail models.
A big drawing of a truck has additionally been created on the shop’s aspect elevation in order that prospects “always remember the origin of each distinctive specimen”.
Torafu Architects was based in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro. The apply’s Freitag Kyoto retailer will compete in opposition to 4 different tasks within the small inside class of this 12 months’s Dezeen Awards.
Amongst them is an Aesop retailer in Shinjuku, which includes a contrasting mixture of metal and plaster surfaces.
Additionally on the listing is Small Icon, a tiny bakery in Yokohama that is embellished in the identical heat, golden hues as a loaf of bread.
Pictures is by Taichi Ano.