GPIMP Space StudiosRebuilt
techPlate 167 · Tokyo, Japan

Sumida Hokusai Museum

A slit of aluminium in an old neighbourhood, a museum as a folded sheet.

2016 · Kazuyo Sejima · Asia

The chamber score

Honshirabe

Shakuhachi honkyoku · Komusō

A single bamboo column of air.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

SANAA's museum for Hokusai, a landmark of contemporary Tokyo.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Sumida Hokusai Museum through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Sumida Hokusai Museum was rebuilt as something else?

As frustrationAs fearAs desireAs hopeAs sustainability

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.

Same feeling, other stone