Credit
Architect: KEI TAKAHASHI / COL.architects
Collaboration: MASAO YAMASAKI / Share woods
Construction: KEN MATSUMOTO
Photographer: FUMITO SUZUKI
PORT LOOP BUS STOP is a waiting area for buses that circle the port city of Kobe. The project was temporarily planned for the ground floor of a building scheduled for demolition next to the Port Tower. We knew that this was a temporary space and that it would eventually disappear, so we proposed a space with a series of wall surfaces that can be moved like furniture. In addition, in order to make Kobe as attractive as possible to visitors to the city, the units are made from thinned wood from the local Rokko mountain area. As the building was to be demolished as planned, we removed these units, took them away, and fused them with the new location again, circulating them for many years to come.
year: 2021
place: Kobe, Japan
Credit
Architect: KEI TAKAHASHI / COL.architects
Collaboration: MASAO YAMASAKI / Share woods
Construction: KEN MATSUMOTO
Photographer: FUMITO SUZUKI