Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2023
The entrance environment of Masato Kure's Deji Cultural Complex Museum operates as a sophisticated threshold experience where architectural elements encode multiple layers of cultural meaning and experiential preparation. The ceiling lattice, with its intersecting white elements forming triangular geometries, may evoke traditional woven crafts elevated to monumental scale, suggesting the interweaving of past and present that museum spaces facilitate, while simultaneously referencing contemporary parametric design languages that speak to technological futures. The suspended typography transforms institutional naming conventions into spatial poetry, the letters' descent through space potentially symbolizing the transmission of knowledge across generations or the materialization of ideas from abstraction into tangible experience. The central curtain of vertical elements carries rich symbolic potential, perhaps suggesting bamboo groves revered in numerous cultural traditions as symbols of resilience and flexibility, or alternately functioning as a contemporary interpretation of rain, a universal symbol of purification and renewal appropriate for spaces of cultural engagement. The gradient from white to dark within these elements might encode the journey from everyday consciousness toward deeper contemplation, the visitor's passage through this veil serving as ritual preparation for encounters with art and heritage. The organic curved floor edges, traced in warm amber light, introduce softness into the geometric precision, potentially representing the organic nature of cultural evolution within structured institutional frameworks. The dark reception wall stands as a threshold guardian, its golden text promising treasures within while the charcoal surface absorbs and grounds the surrounding brightness. The overall chromatic scheme of white and gray suggests purity of intention and clarity of purpose, the minimal palette allowing visitors to arrive psychologically clear and receptive.
Deji Cultural Complex provides a fusion of cultural arts and commercial facilities. It has six extensive facilities including an art museum, a museum, a bookstore, shops, and a café on its top 7300 m2 floor. The coexistence of these facilities allows customers to stop by at one they would not have otherwise visited. What makes The Triangle. JP's design innovation is that they entirely got rid of walls between spaces. By eliminating partitions, it freed the space from having boundaries between inside and outside giving customers a little "preview" before entering the space.