A hair salon in the suburbs of Saitama Prefecture. The structure consists of a reinforced concrete wall to create an appropriate distance from the surrounding townscape, and large laminated wood beams on top of the wall. A 30-meter-long, 1,200-mm-thick, 220-mm-thick beam made of laminated wood crosses the space. The reinforced concrete wall is 2300 mm high and 310 mm thick.

Japan | Saitama

Shinkenchiku March 2014 issue 74P