About

TAKENAKA AS AN ARTIST

This exhibition is a new initiative led by a specially formed planning team, primarily composed of young employees from Takenaka Corporation. The team members have taken the lead in curating and producing the exhibition themselves—an experimental approach that highlights a fresh, hands-on process. It is a completely new kind of corporate exhibition, created through the ideas and efforts of the employees themselves.

Tatemegane Machimegane

When designing buildings, we use the concept of “Scale.”
Let your imagination roam freely to explore the unseen aspects of small worlds,
and connect them to the world at actual size.

Grab your “Tatemonomegane” and “Machimagane” and discover what makes buildings and cities so fascinating.

Exhibition Layout

Artwork Description

1.Life-Size Room

There is a traditional Japanese unit of measurement called “ken”, roughly equivalent to 1.8 meters—the length of a tatami mat. It’s a scale that has become ingrained in the Japanese body and mind. In this 15-meter-high open space, we’ve stacked “Ken Blocks (1:1),” each shaped as a cube with dimensions of one ken. Peek into these blocks to find various snapshots of everyday life, and step inside to experience their true scale with your own body.

2.Room for Crossing Scales

Here you'll find a 1:10 scale model of the previous exhibition room, the “Life-Size Room.”
Can you spot your tiny self inside the miniature space you were just in?
Depending on the lens you use, the world you see changes too.
By experiencing different scales, we invite you to imagine everything from human actions and personal spaces to the vibrancy of an entire city.
Let’s set off on a journey across scales.

3.Building Our Cities and Architecture

The “Ken Block (1/100)” here is scaled down to one one-hundredth the size of the “Ken Block (1/1)” you experienced in the Life-Size Room.
Each block is filled with diverse spaces and scenes of daily life and activity, just like those you encountered in the previous rooms. Let your imagination roam within this 1/100 world and create your own “building” filled with your thoughts and ideas. This area includes zones for both elementary school children and preschoolers.

The “city” created by everyone’s thoughtful buildings will continue to grow throughout the exhibition. A custom system will visualize how the city evolves and what kind of unique character it develops. Take a look at the growing city from various perspectives and discover its many layers.

4.Room to Explore Emerging Technologies

From outer space to the world of insects—this area showcases a wide range of technologies related to buildings and cities.
You'll encounter a dexterous robot that stacks blocks, a system that visualizes urban data, seismic reinforcement blocks made from thinned wood, buildings designed to eventually become forests, architecture for outer space, technologies that consider living creatures in city planning, and innovations that enrich our lives by connecting the physical and digital worlds.

Come and explore the technologies that bring ideas to life.