Dream Dairy Farm

Moriyuki Ochiai Architects designed the interior of the retail shop for a company which runs its own dairy farm, featuring products, such as dairy products, sweets and bread, in Chiba.

Since the distinctive characteristic is that fresh milk, produced at the dairy farm, is used in all of their products, the architects were tasked with providing a space to attractively display these products and, at the same time, evoking the imagery associated with milk and the farm throughout the entire space.

A green color gradation, that reminds of the forests surrounding the meadows, was applied to the walls, gently enfolding the interior while conveying the impression of a fresh and invigorating woodland.

The milky layered luminous body reveals intricate expressions of light, depending on where one is standing and looking to. An ever-changing shower of light follows the viewer, enabling a pleasant stroll through the interior of the shop. Floating dynamic modeled “milky” aluminum objects appear to intertwine with the luminous body, as they reflect and amplify the milky light and colours from the walls in combination with the white suspended quadrangle objects, thereby further diversifying one’s experience of the space’s depth and expanse.

Since the milky luminous body consists of layers of glossy translucent resin boards, their state of overlapping will be perceived differently depending on the visitor's relative line of sight at any given time. Moreover, the light reflected off and penetrating the resin boards, the shine from the “milky” aluminum and the surrounding green color all come together to produce intricate and constantly evolving expressions. The shape of store fixtures, molded using “milky” organic curves, expresses the freshness and vibrant vitality of milk. The entire space brings unity to the different shades of green, the shiny molded aluminum objects and the fixtures with organic curves. It is a space that sends a perspicuous image as a store seeking to make fresh and high quality products from dairy farm milk, base of all their products.

Dream Dairy Farm Store
Chiba, Japan
Design Firm:  Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
Client: Narita Dream Dairy Farm
Area: 86 sqm
Use:  shop
Constructor: Aslego
Completion:  July 2013
Photo: Atsushi Ishida /Nacasa & Partners