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each board rests in the air in a defined
shape. The thin boards are made of 100%
virgin pulp material, which is also used
in art storage boxes for strength and
durability.
This object can be deployed in various
spaces, creating different sceneries
around it depending on where it is
placed. It has already been exhibited in
two locations, and two more locations
are being proposed. This way of thinking
about space creation can be applied to the
design of any space.
This work is an attempt to express the
Japanese aesthetic sense of finding beauty
in a single component of nature, such as
a single flower, and then creating a space
using such an organically shaped object.

Technical sheet
• Project Name: Into the Space
• Location: Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,JAPAN
• Client: EGIKU JAPANESE-DANCE
PRODUCTS
• Installation Design: NAKAMURA
KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS/
since ancient times, and have been written look up and face one being. Kazunobu Nakamura
about in numerous poems. Fascinated by One by one, hundreds of thin boards • Dancer: Egiku Hanayagi, Keijirou
the beautiful, large, swirling holes that are drawn in 3D space by the designer, and Wakayagi
sometimes appear in those flowing clouds, finely adjusted to a structurally balanced • Japanese flute: Michiko Fukuhara
the designer attempted to recreate them. position by cutting-edge computational • Saund crew: Yasuo Kawata
Thin boards tilted in various directions design to form a single object. Fixed to • Lighting-design: Theaterbrain/
catch the light and create shadows, and the ceiling are ten steel mesh grid panels, Masao Igarashi
those shadows pile up irregularly to create 800 mm wide by 1600 mm long, from • Production: Tashibu to Fukushima
darker shadows, indicating the volume which countless thin threads hang down • Stage director: Noriyuki Shirato
of the clouds. It is a single organic form regularly along the grid. Each thin board, • Photograph: Masaki Komatsu
object and, around it, a blank space is 3 mm thick, is balanced in the air with dw
created that invites people in. Visitors three points pierced by its threads, and www.nkdesign-works-blog.tumblr.com

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