BANG & OLUFSEN Pop-up Store Kyoto by Yusuke Seki Studio
Kyoto, Japan
BANG & OLUFSEN Pop-up Store Kyoto | Yusuke Seki Studio | photography : Tomooki Kengaku
DESIGN NOTE
Display fixtures made of cast-in-place concrete
Sustainable design that repurposes part of the formworks
photography : Tomooki Kengaku
words : Reiji Yamakura/IDREIT
VIDEO
Yusuke Seki Studio has designed pop-up store for Bang & Olufsen, a Denmark-based hi-end audio company, in Kyoto. The store opened on the site of a former fashion store for three months only. In order to exhibit high-end audio products, they pursued a space created with craftsmanship. The designer Seki chose cast-in-place concrete as the key material to show the construction process at the site and designed to leave part of the formwork as a part of the display table. He designed a unique display table that reuses part of the formworks and combines wooden formworks and cast-in-place concrete.
Seki told us, “The design was intended to share the background of the manufacturing process to consumers, and also to reduce waste as much as possible for a limited time store.”
DETAIL
The display tables are made of site-cast concrete and Tsuga plywood. They used custom-made Tsuga plywood on two sides of the forms and formply on the other two sides, and leaving the Tsuga forms as table legs after the concrete hardened.
Inspired by the shrine, they installed white pebbles at the back of the first floor.
After being demolded, the wooden forms were displayed in the store, alongside the Bang & Olufsen’s products.f
CREDIT + INFO
Name : Bang & Olufsen Pop-Up Store Kyoto
Design: Yusuke Seki Studio
Lighting Design: ModuleX Inc.
Construction: &S co.,ltd.
Location: Shijo-kawaramachi, Kyoto, Japan
Owner: Bang & Olufsen
Period: April to July, 2019
Floor area: 250 sqm
Material
floor: white pebbles
wall: putty finished(joint only) gypsum board, white paint(lower part)
display table: ‘Tsuga’ Japanese hemlock t12mm + concrete
