White concrete gallery facade

Commercial

Stone Gallery

Location
Kyoto, Japan
Year
2022
Scope
Architecture · Retail
Area
540 m²

A flagship gallery in board-formed concrete, lit only from a continuous clerestory.

A room for objects, kept deliberately empty of everything else.

The gallery is a single concrete volume. A clerestory runs its full perimeter, washing the walls with even daylight and dissolving the line between wall and ceiling.

Board-formed concrete carries the grain of its timber moulds, giving the bare surfaces a quiet warmth.

Modern concrete architecture detail
White architectural facade with shadow