Creation

Common Art Project

Chiba – Japon, 2012

At this experimental school just outside Tokyo, children are immersed in the arts from the earliest possible age.

In collaboration with the architect, the glass panels were inspired by piano pieces composed by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie. Resembling a piano keyboard, the red and white glass keys bring rhythm and movement to the openings and exterior façade. They transform the interior space with a play of unexpected and ever-changing illuminated projections.

Technique

Each window has two glass panes set a few centimetres apart from each other.

Sheets of handmade coloured glass were stuck onto each pane of industrial extra-white glass.


Architect

Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama


Creation, design and execution

Atelier Barrois


Client

Mitsui

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