Tetsuya Matsumoto
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JAPAN / Head Architect Designer Matsuya Art Works / KTX archiLAB.
Tetsuya Matsumoto is the Head Architect Designer at the Japanese based Matsuya Art Works and the founder of KTX archiLAB, the Design section part of the same company. After graduating from Osaka University of Art, he has specialized in commercial space design. The project he deals with varies both in scale and type without losing the fine attention given to the smallest details. From interior design to architectural buildings, his portfolio includes Restaurants, shops, Showrooms, Clinics, Schools, beauty salons, sports facilities and much more. The simplicity of the design, being budget friendly, aesthetically impressive while being perfectly functional are intransigent criteria in all the projects he deals with.
Tetsuya has received several local and international design awards including the Red Dot Awards, Iconic Awards, Spark Awards, A’ Design Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, K-Design Awards, APIDA Awards, Design for Asia Awards, American Architecture Prize, German Design Awards and the Japan based Good Design Awards and shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival and INSIDE world Festival of interiors four separate time just to name a few achievements. Since 2017, Tetsuya became jury member for A’ Design Awards and K-Design awards. He also was the Foreman jury for Asia Design Prize for the same year.
Portfolio
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KAWAII School
Function: Cram School
Year: 2014
Location: Kobe City, Japan.
Area: 342sqm
Kawaii is the design for a cram school in Kobe city, Japan.
Situated along a busy shopping street, the design takes advantage of the transparent glass facade to display its spaces and advertises for the school. the high density of girls’ high schools in this area results on that students using this facility will be mostly female students. The rooms along the facade are pentagon shaped in reference to the child books gabled roof houses, with colorful backgrounds. the pentagons were then slightly deformed to add more "kawaii" (cute) aspect to the forms fitting the Japanese teenage girls’ taste. -
Origami Ark
Function: Leather Products Showroom
Year: 2015
Location: Himeji City, Japan
Area: 438sqm
Origami Ark or Sun Show Leather Pavilion is a showroom for Sansho Company in Himeji city, Japan. The design of Origami Ark uses similar units found in the factory and combines them irregularly in a shape of a jungle gym. exploring the leather products provides the visitor an experience similar to that encountered in a 3D maze.
the showroom is situated in front of the High-speed Shinkansen tracks. its sharp angled horizontal volume is inspired by Japanese traditional Paper folding art. The high-speed of trains enhances this appearance and generates an effect of movement in the building. -
Ten Japanese Restaurant
Function: Japanese Restaurant
Year: 2009
Location, Gold Coast, Australia
Area: 304sqm
This restaurant lies at the ground floor of a hotel located in one of the biggest tourist spots in Australia, Gold Coast.
In Japanese, Ten means Heaven and also the universe relative to the Earth. Since time immemorial,
Japanese artists and craftsmen have been creating uncountable art works regarding the infinite universe using various techniques. In other words, Ten, the infinite universe, is the main theme running through the Japanese space design from the ancient periods. Inside dining space, round mirrors reminiscent of the Japanese flag on the stone walls give a feeling of floating and that of a noble, dignified ambience. In addition, we applied a Japanese classic way of garden architecture using cobblestones to express a stream of water. -
The Cutting-Edge Pharmacy
Function: Dispensing Pharmacy
Year: 2017
Location, Himeji City, Japan.
Area: 147sqm
The Cutting-Edge pharmacy is a dispensing pharmacy related to the neighboring Daiichi General Hospital in Himeji City, Japan. In this type of pharmacies, the client doesn’t have direct access to the products as in the retail type; rather his medicines will be prepared in the backyard by a pharmacist after presenting a medical prescription. This new building was designed to promote the image of the hospital by introducing a High-tech sharp image in accordance with an advanced medical technology. It results in a white minimalistic but fully functional space. -
The Edge of thd Wood
Function: Udon restaurant and local products shop
Year: 2018
Location: Miki City, Japan.
Area: 317sqm
Udon is a Japanese traditional thick noodles dish still widely popular in today’s Japan. Inami Koro restaurant is reinventing the dish while keeping traditional techniques. Their New restaurant and shop in Miki city emulate their approach in an architectural way by giving the traditional wooden structure a new breath.
The structure uses conventional wooden construction methods, while refreshing it by reshaping few aspects. The roof was rotated around the eaves resulting in a sharp edge and a slant ceiling that crosses the glazed façade towards the center of the building.
Miki city wants to develop this new area and needed to attract new businesses. This building acts as a Landmark with its white simplified contour and soft lights glowing through the glazed façade on the evening. -
The Panelarium
Function: Urology Clinic
Year: 2018
Location: Himeji City, Japan
Area: 145sqm
Dr. Matsubara an international award-winning urology surgeon is a specialist of the Davinci Robotic Surgery System. His new clinic in Himeji, Japan, echoes his advance by offering a futuristic sci-fi like atmosphere.
All surfaces of the space were finished in white generating a pure and clean atmosphere. A tribute to hygiene acting as a three-dimensional canvas, on which functional, yet exquisite panels punctuate the monotony. The panels are white except for one side which is either black or a back-lit translucent glass. The composition of the panels on the walls, ceiling, and floor obeys observes two rules: the balance and the function. The panels are used as chairs, counters, covering the heads for the privacy, door handles, showcase bases, or just as elements keeping the balance. -
The Racketectonics Archifixture:
Function: Flagship store.
Year: 2017
Location: Himeji City, Japan
Area: 412sqm
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, WADA Sports is moving to a newly built headquarter and main retail shop. The interior of the shop has a gigantic elliptical metallic structure which role is both building and embodying the racket fixture. Traditional hooks are inconvenient to browse the products, but in this fixture the rackets are arranged in series perpendicular to the customer and made easy to pick up one by one to feel the difference of touch, thickness, and weight. Above, the elliptical shape is used as a display of various valuable rackets collected from all over the country. This collection of valuable rackets transforms the shop’s interior to look like a museum of rackets. In this design the rackets are not only products but the tectonics that defines the space itself. -
Tsunofuri Izakaya
Function: Izakaya: Japanese Style Tavern.
Year: 2011
Location: Nara City, Japan.
Area: 329sqm
Before renovation, the site was used as a movie theater.
The sloped floor characteristic of a theater seemed to be a bottleneck to design a pub space.
There, without flattening the entire floor, we used the interior space to resemble a courtyard of traditional Japanese temple/shrine for us to be able to place private dining rooms and to set up a stream of water on the slope.
In this way, we could utilize the slope, which was a bottleneck at first, as a distinctive feature of the interior.
We installed a huge mirror on the wall, where a movie screen was mounted.
On this mirror wall, a line picture of a typical Japanese shrine is drawn and a mirror sliding door is also installed. Passing through this sliding door, people find themselves in a banquet room.
