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A project framework across products has been launched by a team of an architect, a planner, and a carpenter, when each one’s interests and questions in everyday practice come together at U-35 Architects Exhibition in 2019, Osaka, Japan. Tamotsu Ito envisioned designing a set of exhibition’s fixture not only as a fixture, but also a furniture to be used after the exhibition. Moe Donaka introduced him a carpenter Shota Nozaki, who could make the furniture with his team, as well as had a bunch of left-over timber materials (Koppa, in Japanese.) The design is determined with what is available, and how the function should be. Moe named the overall framework as KOPPA.
伊藤維の2019年U-35展の参加に際し、大工の端材・廃材・再利用材から家具や什器、将来的には建築まで作ることを目指し、土中萌・野崎将太と始まったゆるい活動体、かつそのプロダクト。まずは「展示後に家具としても使える」展示什器を作ることから始まった。その後、ポータブルな展示什器（旅するKOPPA)や、可変のステージ（ステージKOPPA)など、その時に手に入る材料と提案する形の組み合わせによって、様々な形を成しながら、ゆるく続いている。
Location: Western Japan
Type: Furniture + Material Reuse
Design: Tamotsu Ito
Structural Advice: Yoshihiro Fukushima
Planning: Moe Donaka
Fabrication + Planning: Shota Nozaki
Fabrication: Shu Oki, Kazuaki Uemura
Photo Courtesy of
Masaharu Okuda / Tamotsu Ito