photo © Noboru Morikawa

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photo © Noboru Morikawa

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photo © Noboru Morikawa

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image © Iwan Baan

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exterior view. image © Iwan Baan

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outside promenade. image © Iwan Baan

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Teshima Art Museum by RYUE NISHIZAWA and REI NATO on Teshima Island. Opened last October, the Teshima Art Museum is the latest step in an enlightened plan that the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation and the Corporation Benesse have been developing since 1989. image © Iwan Baan

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The Teshima Art Museum calls itself a museum, but its exhibition space is very far from the traditional view of architecture for museums. In fact, the museum is in principle “empty”, devoid of contents. On Teshima Island visitors are left to contemplate an experience with nature made of light, water and air.

Japanese architect RYUE NISHIZAWA and artist REI NATO have collaborated to create an unusual space shaped like a drop of water. Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell, devoid of pillars, covering a space 40 by 60 meters. On the ceiling 4.5 meters above, two large elliptical openings define and orient the space while letting the interior collect pieces of the elements: pools of water accumulate on the floor and freely shift and migrate according to the breeze’s direction. The sounds from the sea and foliage reverberate through the open space while the ambiance is in constant change according to the sun’s position and time of day.

It’s a strange thing this Teshima Art Museum, but it must be a true sensory experience!

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