Daihatsu Auto Repair Shop by Shunsuke Ohe

Iron Architecture · 2024

Daihatsu Auto Repair Shop

by Shunsuke Ohe

A' Design Award 2024 in Architecture
CLIENT: Shunsuke Ohe
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About Daihatsu Auto Repair Shop

The outline of the building has no edges and is designed with a futuristic and dynamism, pursuing a curvaceous beauty. The exterior and interior are both white for the base color, with wood and gray accents, and the number of colors has been reduced to the bare minimum, with the red and white brand logo effectively placed there. The main character of the building is the car, and the design is intended to make the car stand out. The building has two uses, one is a maintenance shop and another is a showroom for displaying cars.

About the A' Design Award

Daihatsu Auto Repair Shop is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Daihatsu Auto Repair Shop is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Daihatsu Auto Repair Shop is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: This building has two uses.
One is a car maintenance shop and the other is a showroom for displaying cars.
The maintenance shop is not a closed space, but an open space to the outside,
The lighting design is unique and intriguing.
The showroom is almost entirely made of glass from floor to ceiling on the exterior walls.
Straight glass and curved glass are smoothly connected, giving the appearance of an exterior wall finished with a very large single piece of glass, creating a space with impact and high visibility.
Dimensions & Packaging: Site area：744.6 sqm , Total floor area : 271.2 sqm , Category : Showroom & auto repair shop
Tags: mortar , Plaster paint , paint , white , glass , LUSTYdesign
Production Technology: Exterior finish // roof : Steel splint panel , eaves : Silicate calcium board , pvc sheet / Exterior walls : Plaster paint , glass / Floor : Mortar , turf , // Interior finish // Ceiling : paint , cloth / Wall : Nonflammable laminate panel , cloth / Floor : Concrete , pvc tile
Design Challenge: It is very important for a maintenance shop to be a space where work can be done rationally, but at the same time, it is necessary to realize a space that is attractive from the outside,In a showroom, it is important to design a space that is attractive both from the inside and the outside, even if the space is limited.The building should combine these two elements in a design that is innovative and beautiful in form, while at the same time being in harmony with the cityscape.
Research: The maintenance shop has an added element of showing off to the outside world.Generally, a maintenance shop is a closed space, so it is impossible to see what is going on inside, but this is not the case here.About half of the walls have large floor-to-ceiling openings, so the inside of the building is visible. The interior is designed so that the exterior can see the cars being serviced. The lighting is not laid out in an orderly fashion, but is randomly arranged as if many shiny sticks were thrown high into the sky and scattered around, creating a unique and intriguing design.
Inspiration: The exterior of the building is contoured with gentle curves without edges, creating a futuristic and dynamic design that resembles a spaceship.
Both the exterior and interior are composed of white as the base color, with brown and gray accents for the wood grain, and the number of colors has been reduced to the absolute minimum.
The number of colors has been reduced to the bare minimum, so that the brand logo in red and white, the company's corporate colors, stands out.
Project Duration: Project Duration : From October 2022 to December 2023
Project location : Osaka(Japan)
Operation Flow: Almost all of the exterior walls of the showroom are finished with glass.The space is composed of a combination of curved and straight glass, which makes it very easy to see what is going on inside through the glass and provides extremely high visibility. All of the glass from the floor to the ceiling is glass, with no vertical frames, and is connected by butt joints, giving it the appearance of a very large piece of glass with smooth curves, creating a very powerful space.Although not a large space, the showroom is highly effective in advertising the cars on display, as it faces an intersection on a very busy road.
Image Credits: Photograph : NANA TAJIMA by ToLoLo studio