LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates

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Osaka, Japan
  • Architect In Charge: Jun Aoki & Associates
  • Design Team: Jun Aoki & Associates, Peter Marino Architect, H&A, A.N.D, Louis Vuitton Japan Malletier
  • Client: Louis Vuitton Japan KK
  • City: Osaka
  • Country: Japan
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LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates - Exterior Photography, Facade
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Text description provided by the architects. Osaka is known as City of Water where interwinding rivers and canals flow into. Taking advantage of such geographical characteristics, trade between Edo throve by running Higaki Kaisen, the merchant vessels that shipped numerous goods to the capital during the Edo period. 

LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates - Interior Photography, Facade
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LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates - Interior Photography, Dining room, Lighting
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LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Shelving
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Underlined with its history and its attitude in favor of straightforwardness, referencing sails as an obvious design metaphor becomes appropriate. Façades of the building are entirely covered by ten sails. The sails’ 3D airfoil shapes are composed of the 2D curved glass panels, aiming for manufacturing and cost efficiency. Each glass panel is double-glazed with two high transparency glasses, one of which facing outside is applied with ceramic frit to create a white cloth pattern on the surface, and to avoid appearing green, the color those glasses originally have.

LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates - Exterior Photography
Courtesy of LOUIS VUITTON MALLETIER

“Stay,” the structure that supports the glasses, is intended to be see-through from outside. Display of the stay is a new design approach with Louis Vuitton, whose previous exterior designs had been focusing on generating visual happenstance without exposing structural supports. This execution may seem unlikely, but brings more coherence between exterior and interior, under a same design theme of a sailing ship and by genuinely following it.

LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates - Exterior Photography
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Address:2 Chome-8 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, Osaka, 542-0085, Japan

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Cite: "LOUIS VUITTON Maison Osaka Midosuji / Jun Aoki & Associates" 10 Apr 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/937201/louis-vuitton-maison-osaka-midosuji-jun-aoki-and-associates> ISSN 0719-8884

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