TORAFU ARCHITECTS

The side tables were designed and made for the collaborative project ‘Upcycling Airplanes JAL | Karimoku’ as part of the Interior Lifestyle Living Exhibition 2023.

For maintenance purposes, inspection hatches of unique shapes and sizes can be found on the exterior of the plane’s body. By attaching wooden legs to these metal hatches, side tables of 2 different variations are made. Aircraft fuselages are curved throughout to reduce air resistance, but looking at the inspection hatches alone, the streamlined impression is lost. In order to maintain the rounded impression typical of airplanes, the legs by means of wooden volumes have been processed into shapes that imitate the body and tail of a Boeing 777-300er aircraft.