About space
The striking stepped shape of one exhibition wall allows people to catch glimpses of the exhibition from the outside, and the streetside wall can also be built on. At its lowest, the wall still stands three meters high, providing ample space and height to function as a standard exhibition wall. While maintaining its quality as an exhibition space, the design of the venue invites the artworks and the artists’ activities to expand and connect with the outside world.
March 9, 2023
219.64m²
110.07m²
37.6m
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Design
Masatoshi Hirai is an architect who seeks to design sites that create new networks connecting people, time, and space. Born in Kyoto, he obtained his graduate degree from the University of Tsukuba’s Master’s Program in Art and Design in 2005. He worked at Atelier Bow Wow from 2005 until 2012, when he established Masatoshi Hirai Architects Atelier. He served as a design assistant at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA) from 2012 to 2015. Since 2017, he has been a part-time lecturer at Hosei University’s Graduate School, and he has been a visiting lecturer at Musashino Art University since 2020. Major awards include the 2019 Residential Architecture Prize for “Villa Potager,” and the 2022 Architectural Institute of Japan Young Architect Award for Selected Architectural Designs for “Sarugaku Plural Directed Tower.”
