Sunny Hills 微熱山丘

If you have ever had a craving for Pineapple or Apple cake, try Sunny Hills behind Omoto-sando in Tokyo designed by Kengo Kuma.

They will serve you a complimentary piece of cake and a cup of green tea. Superb Japanese hospitality.

From Kengo Kuma’s website:

Sunny Hills, the KKAA-designed shop selling pineapple cakes, recently launched their new apple cakes. As a way of promoting, we designed wooden furniture, fixtures and signs with the help of the latest parametric design tools. The shop has the characteristics of cloud-like structure made of thin wooden pieces of 60mm square. So as to be in harmony with these particles and their rhythmic arrangement, we assembled 12mm plywood panels. 

Thanks to today’s advanced parametric modelling, even the materials are processed automatically (by laser cutter), which enables us to work with a multitude of materials at various scales. This project is an example of KKAA’s approach which takes advantage of the computational technology to acquire a new natural form.

Location: 10-20, Minamiaoyama 3 Chome, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 107-0062

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