We, FICCIONES*, designed a fictional gallery called ELEMENT as a space crossing between the realms of fiction and reality.
Taking inspiration from Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market, a massive and iconic building sadly demolished in 2018, we thought to make this now non-existent building the motif of the gallery space.
The gallery space, constructed from curved steel beams along the outer perimeter, expands infinitely in concentric circles. These stacked volumes, layered like a Baumkuchen cake, are boldly intersected by a sleek, straight new building with a glass facade, reminiscent of yokan jelly. Inside this new structure, white-cube exhibition rooms extend endlessly.
With the gallery’s infinite expansion, it can accommodate exhibitions of any scale, regardless of the size of the collection. Artworks and products on display or for sale exist in the real world and can be purchased online.
Perhaps this space was once truly a wet market—or perhaps it was not.
Category：gallery
CGI architecture：FICCIONES
Sound : Yuma Kooda
Graphics：Ken Okamoto Design Office
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*FICCIONES
A collective comprised of DOMINO ARCHITECTS, SUNJUNJIE, and Gottingham, creates works that intertwine the fictional and physical worlds through a series of images. Their work is consistently carried out within a fictional world, where they construct, animate, and photograph spaces that would be impossible in the material world, employing techniques of replication, repetition, and circulation. Moving beyond the conventional roles of architect, CG artist, and photographer, their work manifests as spaces, phenomena, and narratives.
