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Rooftop Star Garden

Hakuten

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Light
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Tom Edington
Tom Edington Creative Director at YourStudio
Lovely playful innovative design so...
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7.25
Wiebe Boonstra
Wiebe Boonstra Art Director / Co Founder at DUM
Trying not to be be rude, but for m...
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5.5
Giulia Maria Moschen Bracho
Giulia Maria Moschen Bracho Trend Researcher | Futurist at Freelance
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7.5
T.K. Chu
T.K. Chu The Founder and Principle Designer of T. K. Chu Design Group and TK Home at T. K. Chu Design Group
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5
6.25
Valérie Boerma
Valérie Boerma Founder at Barde vanVoltt
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6.25
Sanxia Zhou
Sanxia Zhou Director at Sunshine PR and Frame China
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7
Daisuke Nagatomo
Daisuke Nagatomo Assistant Professor at National Taiwan Normal University
It is impressive combination of tec...
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6.75
Alia el Tanani
Alia el Tanani Founder at Living In Interiors & Don Tanani
This is magical...
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6.75
Elena Apiou
Elena Apiou Head of design at Adagio Aparthotels
Very poetic installation. Neverthel...
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Vincent de Graaf
Vincent de Graaf Co-founder at AIM Architecture
Hard to really 'judge', It comes ac...
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7
William Lim
William Lim Managing Director at CL3 Architects Limited
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6.5
Oliver Salway
Oliver Salway Founder at Softroom
The use of crystal and LED is lauda...
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6.5
Heidi Smith
Heidi Smith Partner at Gray Puksand
A joyful, sparkly, magical folly....
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6.75
Cameron Fry
Cameron Fry Creative Director at Liqui Group
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5
6.75
Designer
Client
GINZA SIX Retail Management Co., Ltd.
Floor area
4000 ㎡
Completion
2019
Design
Takumi Takahashi (HAKUTEN)
Creative Direction
Isao Kuwana (HAKUTEN)
Planning
Daisuke Masaki (HAKUTEN)
Graphic Direction
Kyoko Sato (HAKUTEN)
Photography
Nacasa & Partners Inc. | Kim Dong-gyu

The rooftop of GINZA SIX is about 56 meters above the ground, and as a rooftop garden, it is the closest rooftop garden to the stars in Ginza. We took advantage of the characteristics of the location to create an illumination that looks like a shooting star falling down on the rooftop. The monument set up in the center of the garden was inspired by the moment when a shooting star fell on the roof. Pillars of light spread throughout the garden. We created an illumination in the forest next to the monument with laser lights diffused by crystals. The effect is like a planetarium with shooting stars flying around in the forest. The laser light disperses where it hits and emits light like the twinkling of stars. The smoke that covers the space and the laser meteor light made visible by the breath of the visitors will give you a strange sensation that you cannot catch even if you try to touch it, and it will be like being enveloped by a shooting star. While illumination with a large number of LED light sources is the mainstream, we aimed to use light that would not be outdone by those with fewer light sources. As a result, we have created a new type of illumination that consumes less power and is not restricted to places where it is difficult to install illumination, such as floors and smooth walls. Ginza is also one of the most densely built-up areas in the world, with few places where people can freely relax, so this was an attempt to make effective use of the dead space on the roof of the building, given the limited land available.