I’M OK-Daikanyama

"OK the store," located in Los Angeles, is a renowned select shop where prominent creators visit, featuring objects and products curated from around the world.

This project is the store design for its Japanese outpost, "I’M OK Daikanyama," planned as a ground-floor, street-facing unit in a Daikanyama tenant building.

Responding to the heterogeneous values and textures of the items found in the original LA store, the Daikanyama space employs a methodology of "material juxtaposition."

The interior walls are left as the raw concrete skeleton, exposed as found at handover. The floor is finished with clear epoxy resin poured over an underlayer of washi (Japanese paper), creating a unique depth and texture.

For the fixtures, intentionally disparate materials are juxtaposed: heavy platforms of precast concrete, thick plates of clear acrylic, and industrial molded materials such as rigid PVC plates and square pipes.