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An exhibition that features Japanese car design and its cultural background was held in the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie at La Villette, in Paris, and then at the British Museum in London. When I was shown the stoic, clean-cut exhibit design proposal by Shigeru Ban, it already came attached with a motor-show-like lighting plan in which the exhibition crew proposed hanging a cluster of large spotlights to provide bright illumination for the cars.
I dismissed the proposal as “nonsense” and instead proposed lighting the exhibits with only several fluorescent tubes positioned in lines perfectly integrated in the exhibition structure. My proposal aroused concerns among related parties, and was asked such questions as, “I haven’t seen cars lighted up before with fluorescent light, are you sure it will be okay?” Then, two hours before opening, after working through the night, we turned off the operation lights to reveal a sight similar to what we would see inside of a traditional Japanese room where the exterior light is diffused by the paper—that world of Japanese lighting. It was an effect that convinced even the graphic designer, who takes the quality of white very seriously.
Client
: Design Platform Japan
Project Team
: Shigeru Ban Architects Europe
Dates
: 2008
Missions
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Temporary exhibitions
Museum lighting
