"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
In Japan, clouds have been an important element of scenery since ancient times, and have been written about in numerous poems.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
When an object is placed in a space, a place is naturally created around it.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
A vast landscape evoked by a single organic form object.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
I believe that the space created in this way is the ideal place that humans unconsciously seek.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
This work is an attempt to express the Japanese aesthetic sense of finding beauty in a single component of nature, such as a single flower, and creating a space using it.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
Japanese dance performances were held at this location, and before and after the performances, the audience was invited on stage to actually experience the installation.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
Visitors look up and face One being.
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Masaki Komatsu
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
Hundreds of thin boards are drawn one by one in 3D space by a designer, and finely adjusted to a structurally balanced position by cutting-edge computational design to form a single object.
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Kazunobu Nakamura
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
This object can be deployed in various spaces, creating different scenery around it depending on where it is placed.
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Kazunobu Nakamura
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
Fixed to the ceiling are ten steel mesh grid panels, 800 mm wide by 1600 mm long, from which countless thin threads hang down regularly along the grid.
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Kazunobu Nakamura
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"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
Each thin board is balanced in the air with three points pierced by its threads, and each board rests in the air in a defined shape.
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Kazunobu Nakamura
"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS
The thin boards are made of 100% virgin pulp material, which is also used in art storage boxes, strength and durability.https://www.tokushu-papertrade.jp/en/product/28_archival-board/
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Masaki Komatsu
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Image courtesy of ‘Ideas Forum: Architecture of Imagined Spaces’ speakers, You+Pea
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Image courtesy of 'Golden Beauty Supply' collaborators Ehiko Odeh & MCA Gallery
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