With minimal intervention, Tokyo-based studio DDAA has designed a new kind of workplace interior for legacy ceramics brand Hasami. The interior provides a new lease on life for the heritage building while respecting its integrity.

Located just behind “Hiroppa”, a park complex currently under planning by DDAA, the 86 year old Japanese house was devised as a showroom, a kitchen for making lunch boxes to eat in the neighbouring park and residence space for collaboration with artists in addition to the office.

Working with half of the original budget due to the world catastrophe we all know a little too intimately, the goal of the project became to boldly change the impression of the existing building with as little modification as possible while creating a space that is not fixed in function or concept.