LattICE
Design Kendo Hamaguchi & Taku Ohuchi | ICEHOTEL 34 | Available December 2023 - April 2024
Design Kendo Hamaguchi & Taku Ohuchi | ICEHOTEL 34 | Available December 2023 - April 2024
With inspiration from traditional Japanese carpentry tchnique, LattICE was created. AIGAKI is a technique in Japanese Carpentry that does not use any nails or other metal fittings, but instead uses convex and concave cuts into the wood to fit the different pieces together. It is like a large-scale three-dimensional puzzle. LattICE is built based on these principales, replacing the wood with ice cubes.
The lenghts of the different ice cubes are parametrically different to create curves with straight lines, changing the light and shadows passing through the overlapping ice cubes.
Kendo Hamaguchi is a snow and ice craftsman who studied snow and ice techniques at ICHEOTEL 20 years ago. He has since established a snow and ice sompany in Japan and has created many ice productions in various heavy snowfall areas, regions and winter resorts.
Taku Ohuchi has worked on several snow and ice productions in Japan and at ICEHOTEL.