Silver Installation · 2025
The Chakai Exhibition
by Studio Kaz
- Silver A' Design Award 2025 in Installation
- CLIENT: Studio Kaz
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,946
- Verification code 3D31D3BF64 · Verify this award
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About The Chakai Exhibition
Tango Chirimen, soaked with images projected by projection mapping, was used as a psychological boundary. The extremely thin cloth fluctuates with the slightest movement of air, such as the movement of a person, and responds to the movement of the cloth interactively by means of sensors embedded in the cloth. The material used for the floor is a decorative plywood made by pasting rush grass, which would normally have been discarded, onto plywood because it was not long enough to fit into the tatami weaving machine.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Chakai Exhibition is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. The Chakai Exhibition is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Chakai Exhibition is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- Tango Chirimen, soaked in images projected by projection mapping, is used as a psychological barrier. The extremely thin fabric sways with the slightest air movement, and sensors embedded in the fabric react interactively to the movement of the fabric. The floor is made of an original material called "IGUSA-faced plywood", made by gluing rush grass that would have been discarded because it was too long to fit into a tatami loom onto plywood.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- MATERIAL
Tango Chirimen
IGUSA-faced plywood
DIMENSIONS
width 3,138.5mm
depth 3,138.5mm
height 2,075mm
TECHNICAL
projection mapping - Tags
- chakai, chashitsu, Igusa-faced plywood, Tango Chirimen, projection mapping
- Production Technology
- We used Tango Chirimen imbued with projection-mapped images as a boundary. Sensors embedded in the tango crepe detect the slightest swaying of the cloth and respond interactively The floor is made of decorative plywood made from rush grass from the wada family in kumamoto, which could not fit into the tatami loom because it was not long enough and had to be disposed of.
- Design Challenge
- The internal factors
1. Identifying the essence of the tea ceremony.
2. Knowing the history and components of the tea room.
3. Understanding and mastering the tea ceremony itself.
the external factors
1. Adjusting the signals from the sensors embedded in the fabric to reflect them in the program of projection mapping .
2. The technique of kneading rush grass onto plywood.
3. Adapting to an experiential exhibition space.
4.Use sustainable materials and methods consciously. - Research
- The spirit of the tea ceremony is the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality). The purpose of the tea ceremony is not to drink tea, but to “entertain” the guest through the act of drinking tea. For this purpose, everything in the tea room, from the entrance, to the alcove, hanging scrolls, flowers, incense, clothing, and various manners, are mobilized to provide hospitality.
- Inspiration
- The tea ceremony is not only a ritual of tea, but also a way to entertain guests with tea. The guest is also a part of the creation of the tea ceremony.
We design the tea ceremony room for this mentality.
The rule we decided on was to use Japanese materials but not to assemble them in a Japanese way. The tea ceremony room is constructed of veneer plywood made of rush, the material used for tatami, and a cloth soaked with images that change interactively to create a psychological boundaries. - Project Duration
- This project took place from October 18, 2024 to October 27, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Operation Flow
- Sensors embedded in the tango crepe detect and quantify the shaking of the cloth, and by incorporating these values into video and music programs, the images and sounds can be changed interactively.
- Patents
- Patented:
Patent : No.7359351
Patent Holder : Kyoto Prefectural Institute for Textile, Machinery and Metal
Year : 2023
Jurisdiction : Japan - Image Credits
- image #No1:Photographer/Nacása & Partners Inc.
image #No2:Photographer/Nacása & Partners Inc.
image #No3:Photographer/Bunsei Matsuura
image #No4:Photographer/Bunsei Matsuura
image #No5:Photographer/Nacása & Partners Inc.
video:SWAG.inc
music:STUDIO KAZ co,.ltd.
