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Invisible Icon
Can something be an icon if no one can see it? In Tokyo, Omotesando signifies a location where the most avant-garde fashion and architecture converge. Invisible Icon asks the question of whether a museum dedicated to fashion must compete with its urban context.
Calling for a 100 meter tall ‘icon’, this ideas based competition is sited in a realtive low-rise area of Tokyo.By wrapping the building’s façade with reflective glass covered by a translucent skin, invisible ICON moves light across its surface by reflecting, absorbing and omitting, while challenging the way its overall form is perceived. Resting on a 10-meter concrete base, the ‘invisible’ façade extrudes up 80 meters giving way to a clear-glass enclosure housing a floating Japanese garden. At grade, the concrete base lifts its edge to reveal ‘floating’ galleries suspended above. Moving up into the permanent collection, garments and other artifacts are exhibited in voids created when multiple spheres intersect. Denser at the base, galleries become more distributed towards the top where older rare items are housed.
Calling for a 100 meter tall ‘icon’, this ideas based competition is sited in a realtive low-rise area of Tokyo.By wrapping the building’s façade with reflective glass covered by a translucent skin, invisible ICON moves light across its surface by reflecting, absorbing and omitting, while challenging the way its overall form is perceived. Resting on a 10-meter concrete base, the ‘invisible’ façade extrudes up 80 meters giving way to a clear-glass enclosure housing a floating Japanese garden. At grade, the concrete base lifts its edge to reveal ‘floating’ galleries suspended above. Moving up into the permanent collection, garments and other artifacts are exhibited in voids created when multiple spheres intersect. Denser at the base, galleries become more distributed towards the top where older rare items are housed.
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