Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo 2002

This picture book art museum was built on the site occupied by the home of picture book artist Chihiro Iwasaki during the artist’s lifetime. Located in a tropical high-density segmented into four blocks and linked together by corridors.
Crucial to this layout is “a comfortable inward line-of-view” centered on the courtyard, where several lines of view cross one another. Light concentrated on the walls along the border of the site guide a person’s gaze from the courtyard to the inside of the buildings. A light environment appointed with soft, low-color temperature lighting creates a relaxing art museum experience.