Minorityrev Hirao Boutique | Fukuoka, Japan By Case Real



"A boutique that pursues a memory" - A project to convert a thirty-year-old-zipper factory building into a West Japan maximum level boutique in a residential area about two train stations away from downtown Fukuoka City. The inside, on the first floor I moderately arranged the space by retaining rough and strong factory details and I left as much as possible as there was in the factory of the existing to restore the floor. To take over the memory of a building that has existed in the region for years and to take a part as a new icon in itself, the outline of the building is covered by vines, not renewing its externals. Now a newborn, high fashion boutique covered by green is standing, coming to fit in the region like the green in the park and the trees on the street. Time may give the next value to this building......more