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Artizon Museum

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The entrance space, which is an atrium between the ground floor and the first floor, contains a café, a reception area, a museum shop etc. within a three-dimensional structure, allowing visitors to wander freely and enjoy the space in its entirety. - 1st floor entrance
Architecturally open to the city, the museum's exhibitions and the architectural space itself will serve as a driving force of innovation for visitors and the surrounding environment. - architectural facade
“FOAM", a huge object inspired by bubbles, is somewhere between an artwork and a wall, adding an organic form to an otherwise orderly space, adding an affinity with human elements and an air of creativity. - 3rd floor museum entrance
The entrance space, which is an atrium between the ground floor and the first floor, contains a café, a reception area, a museum shop etc. within a three-dimensional structure, allowing visitors to wander freely and enjoy the space in its entirety. - 1st floor entrance

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Material
5.67
6.92
6.92
5.58
6.27
Designer
Client
Ishibashi Foundation
Floor area
5941 ㎡
Completion
2020
Design Partner
Construction management

“Organic Structure with Margins and Irregularities” Here we can see a space, one that could be called a margin, that does not have the purpose of location that it initially suggests, as well as elements that are intuitively perceived to be uneven. These are similar to what we see in certain styles of painting where "one’s relationship to marginal spaces" and "sensory elements" facilitate the power to inspire people's creativity. In addition to the primitive method of forming space, this is an attempt to capture the wholeness that can be found beyond connecting these seemingly aimless elements, or in other words, an organic state uniquely resulting from being irregular. The concept of the museum is "Experiencing Creation". By seeing, sensing, and knowing in this space, visitors can experience the creativity of the artworks and artists, which will help to inspire them to explore toward a new era of creativity. The name of the new building, "ARTIZON," is coined from "ART" and "HORIZON. Making the inside of the museum visible to the outside was a requirement for it to embody a new relationship with art. While this contradicts the basic requirement of not allowing natural light into the exhibition rooms, by creating a space placed between the inside and the outside, and by making the closed spatial volume visible, the aim was to create a museum that is open to the city both visually and sensorily. Of the 23 floors of Museum Tower Kyobashi, the 1st through 6th floors are dedicated to the museum, while the upper three serve as exhibition rooms and the lower half as public spaces such as the entrance, a café, a shop and a lecture room.