TOIRO
Saitama, Japan / 2012

“Junin toiro (many men, many minds)”

‘TOIRO’ is The rent space which a country manages.

In this facility that is named after “junin toiro”, I imagined the personality of each person as “colors”. When you walk across the white space, your shadow will be colored by the principle of “(*)additive mixture”. This allows the space to become a place where people are able to see the “color” they primarily possess, but not seen usually. Moreover, when people gather and the community becomes larger, a lot of shadows come together, gradually putting “colors” in a space where there was nothing.

And in each room, I expressed the layer of the “colors” by materials, which means placing the floor materials in layers and those layers of floors change colors, creating a various sized areas within the space.

*additive mixture (color shadow) Additive mixture is a mixture that the brightness gained from the colors you mixed is the same as the sum of the original colors. The more colors you mix, the brighter it becomes. If you mix “light’s three primary colors”, red (R), blue (B) and green (G) in even amount, it will become white.

Photos by Keisuke Miyamoto

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2013 – IDA (Los Angeles, US) – FIRST PRIZE (GOLD)
2012 – IIDA 2012 Global Excellence Awards (Chicago, US)
– FINALIST in Municipal & Public sapce category
2012 – DFAA 2012 Design for Asia Award
– MERITS WINNER
2012 – APIDA 2012 Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards
– EXCELLENCE PRIZE in Leisure & Entertainment Space category
2012 – The 46th SDA Award – FIRST PRIZE
2012 – DSA Design Award 2012 – PRIZE WINNER
2012 – JCD Design Award 2012 – SECOND PRIZE (SILVER)