In the history of the coolest pineapple cake shop

Sunny Hills at Minami-Aoyama designed by the famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in 2013 covers an area of 293 ㎡ and locates in Tokyo, Japan. It is built by totally 5000-meterlength wood on a joint system called “Jiigoku-Gumi,” traditional method used inJapanese wooden architecture. This shop, specialized in selling pineapplecake (popular sweet in Taiwan), is in the shape of a bamboo basket. Normallythe two pieces intersect in two dimensions, but here they are combined in 30degrees in 3 dimensions (or in cubic), which came into a structure like acloud. With this idea, the section size of each wood piece was reduced to asthin as 60mm×60mm. As the building is located in middle of the residential areain Aoyama, we wanted to give some soft and subtle atmosphere to it, which iscompletely different from a concrete box. We expect that the street and thearchitecturecould be in good chemistry.