CLOUD OF LUSTER

Tetsuya Matsumoto / KTX ARCHILAB

Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archived based in Japan and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards including INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, the Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, Iconic Awards, Spark Awards, A’ Design Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, K-Design Awards, APIDA Awards, Design for Asia Awards, American Architecture Prize, and German Design Awards just to name a few. Since 2017, Tetsuya became a jury member for A’ Design Awards, K-Design awards, Asia Design Prize, UNI’s Di-Generic cities Tokyo, C-IDEA Design Award, Azerbaijan Design Award, Sky Design Awards, and the World Architecture Festival. As the founders of the studio KTX archiLAB say: “Commercial building design should not be a process for producing only a beautiful box. This is the idea of us KTX. And creating a building that produces a greater benefit, a business tool for reducing the benefits commensurate with the investment we are designing. Interior space design from architectural design, up to the graphics, all the design and consistently produces a strong added value to your business by control.”

THE CUTTING EDGE PHARMACY HIMEJI CITY, JAPAN 2016

The Cutting Edge is a dispensing pharmacy located nearby Himeji Daiichi general hospital in Japan. The façade is totally glazed and contoured by protracted sharp edges. The minimalist white interior is demarcated by a black cross. This minimalistic space designed in clean straight lines creates the High-Tech sharp image that the patient expects from advanced medical care.

THE POLYCUBOID HIMEJI CITY, JAPAN 2019

Photo Credit: ©Stirling Elmendorf The PolyCuboid is the new headquarter office for TIA.co.ltd, a company that provides insurance services. The building is a composition of three imperfect cuboid shapes that interlace to build up the different spaces. The composition further results in an atrium linking the different functions on the different levels and providing the interior with a large amount of natural light. The metallic structure vanishes from the space syntax turning the building into a sculptural object.

Photo Credit: ©Nacasa & Partners Inc. ORIGAMI ARK HIMEJI CITY, JAPAN 2015

Origami Ark is a showroom for Sansho Company in Himeji, Japan. Inspired by Origami, the traditional Japanese paper folding art, the form of the building was made to impress the Shinkansen passengers by featuring a horizontal sharp-angled appearance. The interior uses a metallic jungle gym-like structure of modular units to display more than 3000 leather items in a narrow yet playful space.

Cloud of Luster

Luster, glitter, sparkle, light, shine, and brightness are fundamentals of any modern wedding ceremony. The time for writing a new page in people’s life, a white page, all in joy, all in happiness, all together, open to the future, reflecting dreams and hopes, reflecting the Luster of Life.

Photo Credit: ©Stirling Elmendorf. PROJECT NAME: Cloud of Luster

IDENTIFICATION: Wedding Chapel LOCATION: Himeji City, Japan

DESIGN OFFICE: KTX archiLAB HEAD ARCHITECT DESIGNER: Tetsuya Matsumoto TEAM MEMBERS: Motoaki Takeuchi, Farid Ziani

CLIENT: 117 CLIENT WEBSITE: http://www.117.co.jp/