Boolean Interior Design by Torafu architects

January 9th, 2009 - Posted in Interior Design

This Boolean Interior is the work of Tokyo-based Torafu Architects, an interior installation for the cafe space located at the entrance of the Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Building in the University of Tokyo. The design using punctured wooden surfaces to enclose the space and frame the outside world.

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Koichi Suzono and Shinya Kamuro of Torafu says:

At first the place was just a waiting room with a vending machine and was covered with hard materials, such as stone flooring, walls, and stainless window sash. In order to offset the feeling of such hard materials, we used two L-shaped wooden objects placed in a different orientation, one to be a partition wall, and the other for a bench.

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Imagining variously-sized spheres floating around in three-dimensional space, we cut circles out of the partition wall and bench as if the floating spheres burst and made holes on contact with them.

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Cutting circles out of the partition wall and the bench, as if a floating sphere burst and made holes on contact with them, the place feels more open providing a new perspective form which to view everyday life.

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