Yuta Tokunaga, director of a museum dedicated to architectural models, has selected his five favourite exhibits from a collection that includes works by Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban.
Billed as Japan's only architectural model museum, the Archi-Depot Museum is a warehouse-cum-gallery that opened in Tokyo earlier this year, showcasing both study maquettes and final design models by famous Japanese architects.
Torafu Architects, Klein Dytham Architecture, Nikken Sekkei and Riken Yamamoto all have work on show in the museum.
These architects pay to rent the shelves, allowing them to free up space in their often-cramped offices. In exchange, the museum offers to keep the models in carefully maintained temperature and humidity conditions.
Architects are encouraged to rotate their models every few months, ensuring that the exhibition is always changing. Museum director Yuta Tokunaga has picked five of the best models that have been shown so far. Here, he explains what makes them so special.

Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center by Kengo Kuma
The monumental shape created by piling up so-called traditional Japanese roofs has changed the landscape of Asakusa, one of the most famous tourist places in Tokyo. The roofs made of wooden louvres are characteristic of Kengo Kuma's work, but also express the lightness of Japanese architecture.
The model, which was made faithfully true, is enough to tell us the transparency and the lightness of the actual building, and a Japanese...