Starbucks Coffee Dazaifutenmangu Omotesando / Kengo Kuma

Category : FUKUOKA-bldg

kengo kuma and associates // 2011
Dazaifu Fukuoka Japan // MAP

STARBUCKS DAZAIFU

The building is made of 2,000 stick-like parts in the sizes of 1.3m – 4m length and 6cm section. Total length of the sticks reached as far as 4.4km. We had experimented the weaving of sticks for the project of Chidori and GC Prostho Museum Research Center, and this time we tried the diagonal weaving in order to bring in a sense of direction and fluidity. Three sticks are joined at one point in Chidori and GC, while in Starbucks four steps come to one point because of the diagonal – a more complicated joint.

STARBUCKS DAZAIFU

STARBUCKS DAZAIFU

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