Smoking room

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects’ project for the smoking room of a shopping center in Kanagawa, Japan, combines technological and architectural solution to offer a pleasant experience.

In order to have clean air in the smoking room at the 1st floor of the Grand Tree Musashikosugi shopping mall, Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects took 2 specific measures.

Firstly, by setting the carved wall and utilizing the character of the smoke – that is pulled to walls – they induce it to the exhaust outlet on the ceiling. Secondly, by setting the fan between the ashtray and the exhaust outlet, the second hand smoke and the one from people’s mouth are quickly drawn in.

With those measures, the smoke is immediately cleared out from user’s breathing area.

By putting a white halftone dots seat on the mirror-made end wall, the reflected space including the curved wall and counter, looks foggy and thus users think as if the air flows to the deeper inside. This smoking room creates an effective air flow as equipment and also by a visual effect.

 

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects, Smoking room Grand Tree Musashikosugi, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects, Smoking room Grand Tree Musashikosugi, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects, Smoking room Grand Tree Musashikosugi, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects, Smoking room Grand Tree Musashikosugi, Kanagawa, Japan