Fragrance with Lotus Flowers Installation, Tokyo, Japanese Mixed-Use Architecture, Japan Accommodation Photos
Fragrance with Lotus Flowers Installation in Tokyo
4 Jan 2022
Design: Nakamura Kazunobu Design-works
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Fragrance with Lotus Flowers Installation
The installation Fragrance with Lotus Flowers for Japanese dance has won two awards, BoY Honoree and AMP Best of Best.

An installation art space for Japanese dance. The lotus is a sacred flower in Japan. In Japanese gardens, ponds with lotus flowers are usually shrouded in a light mist in the early morning when the flowers are in bloom. A fog seems to visualize the fragrance of lotus flowers. In Japan, fog represents profundity and has a sacred atmosphere. It is a mist formed by delicate light and water particles that catch the light. I tried to design a new space by objects that have such a vague appearance.
“Lines” that fill the space. A hazy, misty existence created by countless “lines”. The “line” has a Japanese beauty, as if it softly absorbs light, rather than strongly repelling it. Over a thousand “lines”. By designing the sparseness of how the lines come together, a gradation with shades of transparency is drawn, spreading across the space. The delicate artwork touches the light and depicts the vague figure of light, revealing the existence of the air that fills the space.

A space that seems to be enveloped in a rising mist develops...