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Coo Hair Eclat

Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato

COO HAIR ECLAT

Atelier KUU

ARCHITECTS
Atelier KUU

DESIGN COOPERATION
Tsubasa Iwahashi

LIGHTNING PLAN
Light Style / Shiro Miki

DESIGN
Nobuo Kumazawa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Takao Kato

AREA
125.0 m²

YEAR
2007

LOCATION
Meito, Japan

CATEGORY
Commercial Architecture

COO Hair ECLAT is a beauty salon completed in a suburban area.

The idea was to create a frame that presents the scenery in the shop as a picture to the people walking on the street and riding past along the road it faces.

Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato

The design takes advantage of the sloped condition of the site.

Resting on the slope with its front part jutting out, the building clearly establishes its sense of presence and at the same time acts as the signboard.

Different areas of counter, waiting, counseling, styling and service spaces are connected to each other with enlarged or reduced volumes without a clear sense of boundaries.

Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato

From the outside, everything in the compact and seamlessly partitioned spaces and every movement of the people in them will be registered as scenes from a film.

Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato


Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato
Coo Hair Eclat
© Takao Kato


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Coo Hair Eclat
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