Unseen Objects / Overflow

This furniture collection from the Unseen Objects series visualizes the essential qualities of advanced casting techniques while redefining the cultural value of casting practices that have long remained overlooked—including processes, tools and material behaviour. Developed through extensive research at Heiwa Gokin’s foundry, the project closely observes casting processes, tools and material behaviour. This investigation focuses on burrs—forms that emerge as molten metal solidifies and are typically removed during finishing. For large-scale castings, sand molds (molds made from compacted sand) are produced in multiple parts according to the shape and size of the original model. When molten metal is poured and begins to solidify, excess material forms along the seams between these mold sections. These formations are known as burrs. Normally discarded as imperfections, they are reinterpreted in this project as material traces that naturally arise from the casting process. Panels cast with their burrs intact are layered and combined with aluminium boards to construct shelves and low tables. The collection translates material behaviour — generated within a controlled industrial process — into the structural language of furniture.