plateau
Imagine a horizontal plane of a certain height as you walk through a city. There, the horizontal plane intersects with trees and utility poles. Can we consider all the objects intersecting this horizontal plane as footings supporting this plane? If the height of this plane is 40 centimeters, it could be a bench; at 70 centimeters, it could be a table; at 3 meters, it could be a roof. Let us think about the intervention of horizontal surfaces in the city.
🅑 On the premises of Bashamichi Station on the Minato Mirai Line (in front of Tully’s on the B1 level)
5-49 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama
Takahiro KAI /studio arche
Born 1993 in Miyazaki. Kai graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017. Working mainly with wood, he established studio arche in 2016 while still a student, as an atelier that manages everything from design to production and construction. Kai works across domains and scales, from cutlery to furniture, installations, and architecture, while maintaining a studio in Minami-Shinagawa, Tokyo. Major works include “as it is,” “mistletoe,” and “unclouded grobes.”