Circulation Retail and Repair Workshop

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There is a four-way junction a short walk from Ebisu Station, where you will find an art gallery, CAGE GALLERY, and the Hender Scheme flagship store, sukima Ebisu, both run by laicoS, across the road from each other.

This project involved renovating the semi-basement space of a building on one corner of the four-way junction into a place called circulation for repairing and reselling products.

Given this, we wanted to design the space as an extension of our previous work with them, such as the laicoS showroom and sukima Osaka, and in doing so, provide sustainable value by repurposing and repairing the space, including its context, rather than creating something new.

The workshop is insulated and sealed to control humidity, protecting the quality of the shoes customers have entrusted to the store and preventing the spread of dust. The remaining space for selling shoes is left as it was.

The sales space floor is sloped, making it difficult to place furniture and shelves as usual. The old shoe racks with casters from the client's collection are lifted and attached to the wall in this space.