Interview with Nakamura Kazunobu

When I was a child, I liked sculptures at first.Because I liked three-dimensional objects.However, I wanted to get in there soon.I was more interested in the interior space created by the shape than the appearance.So the university selected architecture.

First of all, I imagine what kind of event can be realized by design.Next, think about whether it can be realized by a characteristic form. Because if the objective event is realized by its characteristic formBecause it is likely to produce an unknown experience.I want to create an unknown space.

Like making sculptures, it is fun to create the space we have thought of as a model or 3D.And it is the most exciting time when it appeared in reality size.

I think that influencing my design is sculpture production that I liked since I was a child, and the stage art design I've been doing since my college days.

I want to create a characteristic space created by the shape.I would like to continue my efforts to realize that.

I would like you to find something you like, such as your favorite event, your favorite material, your favorite process.I think that whatever it is.

I do not think that I have succeeded.I have not produced many things yet.I always want to keep an inquisitive spirit and work hard.

Unfortunately, the time being chased by day-to-day work is long.Even a little, I value the time that I can think alone.

I try not to be conscious of the trend much.I think real beauty is immutable.

Just to judge by seeing the real thing. Think about it, make a model and judge by intuition as to whether it is good or not. I think that how long iterations can repeat determines the quality of the design.

When the design is completed and the best condition is photographed in the picture, the work is over.Whether the job succeeded or not depends on others' reactions after a while.

Kikuchi City Central Library

Ryue Nishizawa

When I go abroad, I realize the way of thinking unique to Japan that I did not conscious until now.I think that I am Japanese style.

Work should not concentrate solely on making money.When I die I want to make something that seems to have left something in this world.

I think that it is to make people's lives rich.

I am honored.I am extremely happy to be able to win the Italian design award with a deep design history.

This is an art studio for Kazunobu Nakamura to create design. The studio that designs spaces such as installation art and interior design. I work with themes of movement and flow created in space by irregular shapes, such as Japanese screen paintings and Japanese gardens.

Design is creation that begins with a request from others or consultation from others about a problem.
Art is creation that begins with inspiration that comes from within myself.

Most jobs have many restrictions, and the client's image of what he or she wants is often limited. And design tolerances are often limited.
What I like is work that is tolerant. It depends greatly on the stance of the client.
I like the freedom of work that allows me to use the artistic ideas that spring up within me to solve the client's problems and methods.

The ideal of my work is a rich space created by irregular shapes. The Japanese garden has an amorphous element such as a pond that reflects light on the water surface and creates a cool scenery at its center, and the changes in space created by the amorphous shape characterize the surrounding place and give expression to the entire space. The undulating, asymmetrical path that surrounds it invites people. Beautiful trees filled with the wind cover the road, creating a tunnel of green shade that creates an indescribable sense of depth to the light-filled place at the end. Also, Japanese screen paintings various natural shapes with dynamic brush strokes in a space that should be empty, bringing a richness of space to life. Various forms of nature such as trees have been loved the indefinite form that creates beautiful spaces. Pouring rain, Old pine tree covering the air, Clouds adorning the sky, Mist and Fog. Their shape has the power to rich the space. These motifs of organic forms of nature, with their irregular shapes and dynamic brushstrokes, create a flow in the space and beautiful depth and expanse.

I like materials that are less assertive as materials.
Many space designers utilize the strong expression of the material itself, such as stone or solid wood, in their designs.
However, I prefer plain, less assertive materials that purely express form and structure.

When designing a space in an empty space, my mind is always empty at the beginning.
I seek various stimuli in order to spark ideas in my mind that are suitable for this place.
I gather information on the characteristics of the place, the functions required, and the ideal image sought, and turn this information into the seeds of a design.

It gives me great pleasure when it is a space that emanates from my own imagination and is realized.

Vibrant Japanese screen paintings.
I believe that the sliding screen paintings and folding screen paintings in the interior of ancient Japanese architecture may have contributed to the depth and breadth of the space. Imagine if these sho-byobu paintings had been plain white, what you would see would be an inorganic, lonely, wretched, empty space in a simple Japanese architecture composed only of horizontal and vertical lines. In the space that should have been empty, a rich space emerges by depicting various forms of nature with dynamic brushstrokes.
The large tree that covers the screen and the undulating branches and leaves that surround it, as represented by Eitoku Kano's "Hinokizu Byobu(Cypress Trees Screen)".
The rippling, raging river represented by "Hozugawa Folding Screen" by Okyo Maruyama.
Although not a wall painting, Hokusai Katsushika's "Fugaku Sanjurokkei/Kanagawa Okinamiura" is known overseas as "The Great Wave" because of its huge waves that seem to engulf the entire space.
These motifs of organic forms of nature, with their irregular shapes and dynamic brushstrokes, create a flow in the space and beautiful depth and expanse.

I live in Yokohama-city, Japan.
Yokohama is an easy place to get to anywhere in Japan.
Living in Japan, I believe that the values of Japanese culture have become ingrained in me.
The air, clouds, fog, and rivers that can be felt in the land of Japan.
Japanese gardens and art designed with these motifs.
By being in this place, one can always feel these tastes directly on my skin.

I love to walk and explore, I walk in the city, I walk in the fields, I walk in foreign countries, I walk in the canyons. During that walk I find inspiration from a beauty of nature’s forms created by the "irregular shapes" of trees and leaves rustling in the wind, fog drifting through the air, cherry blossoms dancing in the sky, clouds in the blue sky, towering rocks, all in a vague space.

It's hard for me to narrow it down to five items.
I believe that design is born from chaos.
My desk, surrounded by miscellaneous materials and models, is the most comfortable place for me to imagine design.
The miscellaneous models created by my past self inspire me now. They are placed in a seemingly chaotic space.

I believe there is a golden rule in nature.
Clouds, the flow of water, the undulation of mountain peaks, the shape of leaves and petals
They are always beautiful.

I think the most important skill for a designer is the unquenchable desire to create something.
Since this desire is not present in all people, I think the most important skill is to have that feeling of craving come from one's own heart.

The natural landscape of forests, rivers, and mountains, books on ancient Japanese design theory, ancient Japanese art such as folding screen paintings, and organically designed Japanese gardens are sources of inspiration.

The most important use of time is early in the morning and before bedtime.
During those times before the world is on-time, you can organize and reset your mind and set an on-time work schedule.

The design period for most jobs is one year or more from conception to the creation of the implementation design.
Most projects, regardless of size, take several years to complete, counting from the initial planning stage.

I can communicate in English, such as by e-mail, but I cannot speak or hear English.