【DOit YOURSELF! PROJECT】
Throughout Japan, one can find the home center – a store that sells various products, tools, building supplies along with providing workshop space to work on your projects. Whenever we need to make prototypes of furniture, conduct repairs inside the studio, or build furniture for exhibitions, we often find ourselves going to the nearby home center. Just like how chefs frequent the morning markets, this kind of store is filled with hidden resources and ideas for architects and designers.
DOIT YOURSELF is a project that challenges designers to create a new product, using only a budget of ¥10,000 for construction expenses and materials available only from a home center. Inspired by great chefs who can create culinary masterpieces from whatever is inside someone’s fridge, can we architects and designers make something in a similar fashion?
Furthermore, this also serves to spread the joy of do-it-yourself, as products born from this challenge can be recreated by anyone and anywhere in Japan – all you have to do is go to your neighbourhood home center.
DOIT YOURSELF introduced as part of an installation at HIGHLIGHT, as well as at the 2016 IFFT/Interior Lifestyle Living in Tokyo.
In the future, we are looking to add new participating designers, while hosting further iterations of this project.
photo:Takumi Ota
STICK HANGER by Dimitri Bähler
Wooden Stick / Steel Screw total¥350
SQUARE by Fabien Cappello
Metal Measure / Plywood total¥4,551
CONTAINER WAGON by Koichi Suzuno, Shinya Kamuro /TORAFU ARCHITECTS
Collection Basket / Caster / Cable Tie total¥2,727
POTENCE by Fabien Cappello
PVC Sheet / Metal Sidebar / Light Bulb / Wooden Pipe / Full Screw / Hunger total ¥2,665
SOURCE OF LIFE by Calvin Ho
Ladle / Wooden Block / LED Lamp / Socket total¥2,694
YAKISUGI LAMP by Gabriel Tan
Cedar Block / Paper Tape / Clip / Light Ball / Electric Cable / Socket total¥5,351
TAPER CUT HOURSE[1] /BOWL S[2] / BOWL L[3] / STOOL[4] by Florian Hauswirth
Cedar Plate total[1]¥1,700 [2]¥200 [3]¥850 [4]¥1,200
DENGO FAMILY by Florian Hauswirth & Ritz Katia
Cedar Plate / Oak Plate / Grove / Ribbon / Rope / Rubber Cleat ¥200-300 for each
PIPE CONTAINER by minna
Drainage piping joint / Drainage pipe / Cork sheet / Polyethylene rope / Handle for rope total¥3,648
COPY WARE by Kenji Ito (MUTE)
Plaster / Alminium Saucedish / Food Pack / Beer Cup / Handy Cup Container total¥1,468
HALF HALF HALF by Ben Nagaoka
Concrete Block / Paint total¥300
BOOK RACK by Edouard Pillet
Wooden Stick / Rope total¥1,985
CARPET BASKET by Shigeki Fujishiro
Carpet Tiles / Cable Tie total¥2,500
SNEAKERS BOX by Kenji Ito (MUTE)
Lauan Plywood / Cutting fee / KSPC Screen 54 wide total¥5,610
P(L)Y(W)O(O)D STOOL by Koichi Futatsumata
Basswood Veneer / Steel Screw Pin total¥3,786
PIPE JOINT HANGER by deLINIUM architects
Wooden Stick / PVC Joint total¥5,800
PIPE JOINT CANE by deLINIUM architects
Wooden Stick / PVC Joint total¥650
DECK BRUSH HANGER by Keiji Ashizawa
Concrete Block / Cement / Wooden Stick total¥3,500
7 STYLO BLOCKS by Jean Besson
Stylo Block / Joint total¥3,650
CEILING TABLE by Dimitri Bähler
Ceiling Ceramic Board / Rubber Plate / Wood Stick / Doubleside Tape total¥2,356
photo:Masaki Ogawa
【DOit YOURSELF! PROJECT】
日本中、至る所にホームセンターがあります。そこには様々な商品のみならず材料や工具、そして加工出来る場所があります。デザイン事務所が家具のプロトタイプを作る時、あるいは事務所内の改修工事、展示会のための什器をつくるとき、私たちは頻繁にホームセンターを利用します。料理人にとっての朝市のように、ホームセンターはデザイナーやアーテキテクトにとっての隠れた素材置き場であり、アイデアの宝庫でもあるわけです。
DOIT YOURSELFーこのプロジェクトでは、1万円以下の材料費と加工費を使いホームセンターで買い物、そして製作をします。優れた料理人が、他人の冷蔵庫の中身で美味しい料理を生み出すことができるように、我々デザイナー、アーキテクトも、ホームセンターから買ってきた材料で何かを生み出すことができるのでしょうか?
またここで生まれたプロダクトは、ホームセンターに行けば誰でも作れる可能性を秘めています。つまり日本中に点在するホームセンターで製作可能、日本中で製作可能です。
DOIT YOURSELF – DO IT YOURSELFを拡張させるプロジェクトでもあります。
本プロジェクトはHIGHLIGHT展にて展示のイントロダクションを行い、IFFT/インテリア ライフスタイル リビング 2016にて、その手法をまとめた集大成を発表しました。
また、今後も参加者を増やしながら定期的に発表の場を増やしていく予定です。
photo:Takumi Ota
STICK HANGER by Dimitri Bähler
Wooden Stick / Steel Screw total¥350
SQUARE by Fabien Cappello
Metal Measure / Plywood total¥4,551
CONTAINER WAGON by Koichi Suzuno, Shinya Kamuro /TORAFU ARCHITECTS
Collection Basket / Caster / Cable Tie total¥2,727
POTENCE by Fabien Cappello
PVC Sheet / Metal Sidebar / Light Bulb / Wooden Pipe / Full Screw / Hunger total ¥2,665
SOURCE OF LIFE by Calvin Ho
Ladle / Wooden Block / LED Lamp / Socket total¥2,694
YAKISUGI LAMP by Gabriel Tan
Cedar Block / Paper Tape / Clip / Light Ball / Electric Cable / Socket total¥5,351
TAPER CUT HOURSE[1] /BOWL S[2] / BOWL L[3] / STOOL[4] by Florian Hauswirth
Cedar Plate total[1]¥1,700 [2]¥200 [3]¥850 [4]¥1,200
DENGO FAMILY by Florian Hauswirth & Ritz Katia
Cedar Plate / Oak Plate / Grove / Ribbon / Rope / Rubber Cleat ¥200-300 for each
PIPE CONTAINER by minna
Drainage piping joint / Drainage pipe / Cork sheet / Polyethylene rope / Handle for rope total¥3,648
COPY WARE by Kenji Ito (MUTE)
Plaster / Alminium Saucedish / Food Pack / Beer Cup / Handy Cup Container total¥1,468
HALF HALF HALF by Ben Nagaoka
Concrete Block / Paint total¥300
BOOK RACK by Edouard Pillet
Wooden Stick / Rope total¥1,985
CARPET BASKET by Shigeki Fujishiro
Carpet Tiles / Cable Tie total¥2,500
SNEAKERS BOX by Kenji Ito (MUTE)
Lauan Plywood / Cutting fee / KSPC Screen 54 wide total¥5,610
P(L)Y(W)O(O)D STOOL by Koichi Futatsumata
Basswood Veneer / Steel Screw Pin total¥3,786
PIPE JOINT HANGER by deLINIUM architects
Wooden Stick / PVC Joint total¥5,800
PIPE JOINT CANE by deLINIUM architects
Wooden Stick / PVC Joint total¥650
DECK BRUSH HANGER by Keiji Ashizawa
Concrete Block / Cement / Wooden Stick total¥3,500
7 STYLO BLOCKS by Jean Besson
Stylo Block / Joint total¥3,650
CEILING TABLE by Dimitri Bähler
Ceiling Ceramic Board / Rubber Plate / Wood Stick / Doubleside Tape total¥2,356
photo:Masaki Ogawa