Floating in The ZERO Gravity Environment

 

Plan

 
Architectural blueprints for the preparatory school

Creating an illusion of floating in a ZERO gravity environment

This is a preparatory school for high school students, providing distance education with satellite communication. Our client “Matsuo-Gakuin” requested us to create spaces for the students to have dreams and hopes for their future.

To respond to this request, we tried to create spaces to give a sense of wonder and impressive experience to the students inside, partitioning the room with multiple white rectangle panels hung from the ceiling, painting similar white rectangles on the floor and installing clear mirrors on the ceiling and the walls. These fittings and paintings provide students with an unexperienced 360 degrees view surrounded by panels flying into the air, creating an illusion of floating in a zero gravity environment.

 

on Construction

 
 

CG

Photography

Awards

  • DFA DESIGN FO ASIA AWARDS 2021
  • Design For Asia Award 2013
  • AICA Example Contest 2012
  • JCD International Design Awards 2011

Media

  • Shoten Kenchiku (January 2013)
  • Yearbook Japan Space Design (2012)
  • A well-known Design magazine (South Korea) (2012)

Client Data

Client
Matsuo Gakuin Toshin Eisei Yobiko – Senri Yamada School
Category
Preparation school
Role
Interior, Renovation
Duration
1months
Gross Area
149.3㎡
Location
Yamadanishi 3-57-20, Suita, Osaka, Japan