Think 桐生
Gift shop & Beer stand @ Kiryu, Gunma
Design: Sunao Koase, Shota Kaneko /SNARK Inc.
Client: NC
Construction: YOSHIDAGUMI,inc.
Steel Product: gambit
Mortex: Roccadia design and works, KIRISEN
Sign painting: NJ SIGN
Floor area: 8.9㎡
Completion: Jun. 2023
Photo: Ippei Shinzawa

東武鉄道桐生線の新桐生駅構内にあるビアスタンド併設の売店である。桐生の玄関口として地域活性化の新しい拠点にすると共に、時間帯によって変わる利用客に対応できるような設えが求められた。特産品と地ビールの販売スペースに加え、昼の弁当販売にも対応できるよう、可動什器によってカウンターを増設できる計画とした。染色職人に染めてもらったカウンターの天板や、のこぎり屋根工場の外壁に使われるスレート波板の棚板など、織物産業で栄えた桐生の文化や風景をデザインに落とし込み売店のアイコンとした。

This is a store with a beer stand inside Shin-Kiryu Station on the Tobu Railway Kiryu Line. We were asked to design a store that would serve as a new base for regional revitalization as the gateway to Kiryu, and that would accommodate the changing needs of customers at different times of the day. n addition to space for selling specialty products and local beer, the counter can be expanded with movable shelves to allow for the sale of boxed lunches at lunchtime. We asked a dyeing artisan to dye the countertop, and designed the corrugated shelves made of a material used for the exterior walls of saw-tooth roof factories. The design incorporates the culture of Kiryu, a city that prospered through its textile industry.