This car showroom is located the calm countryside/area which still has many pastoral landscapes closed to Mt.Ikoma in Osaka.

The showroom owner is a man in his forties who spent many years selling cars in America when he was in his twenties and thirties.

During this time he worked in import and export of cars between Japan and America and gained a lot of knowledge about mechanical workings as well as car design but also driving techniques. In time, the owner wanted people to know more about the car, as well as wanting them to feel unique with the special character that each car has by the experience of the space.

It was then that we started to make the space imagined for the car, seeing it from the viewpoint of an architect or a furniture designer.

Naturally, the car contains many kinds of functions and elements in the limited body, like, for example, the motive power for driving, and the comfort for driving for long distances with a frame for keeping the ﾔcar shapeﾕ, or for safety and so forth.

So, how then can we translate these functions and elements as the program into the space was the most important theme? We interpreted the program to consist of a showroom as (1) the motive power, (2) comfortably fitting it into the environment so as to connect a car with people and (3) the frame(=structure) to form the desired space.

The results were that when you are in this space, this ﾔspace (showroom)ﾕ gives you a feeling exceeding the category of architecture, or furniture, as if you are riding a big car, and that you are walking in the car