bandesign: Mirrors

In Gifu Prefecture, near a row of cherry trees, bandesign conceived a café cladded with mirrors, in order to create the suggestion of a cherry forest on a urban corner.

Bandesign: Mirrors
A row of cherry trees is planted at an embankment at its basin, and many people visit this location during the cherry-blossom viewing season.

Taking advantage of this location, bandesign made repeated refractions of the tree. In order to amplify the cherry two mirror walls set up angle position and making a cherry forest on a corner of the town. Overlapping the cherries and reflecting with a warp, the people are invited by it to the forest.

In addition, in the café the people could see the cherries and the reflecting cherries at the same time and feel season changing closely. Especially vertical roof struts of motif of the tree blanch made them feeling of a rest under the tree.

Bandesign: Mirrors
bandesign, Mirrors, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Between two buildings, white gravel makes more reflecting brightly and symbolically expressing the centre of a tree. There are three camellia trees in this site. Camellia makes its red flowers before the cherry blossom, marking the changing season from winter to spring with the colors.

The exterior wall is in white steel, while the entrance door is red, in line with the interiors colours, red and green.


Mirrors, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Program: café
Architects: bandesign (Hisanori Ban Kazumoto Terashima)
Lighting design: Koizumi Lighting technology (Atsuko Fujita)
Construction: Oribe (Daisuke Oribe)
Area: 99 sqm
Completion: 2014

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