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Sou Fujimoto Cloud pavilion

“It has an exterior but doesn’t have walls, yet an inner space exists. Moreover, the three-dimensional inner space is extremely complex and dynamic. Clouds cannot be realized with architecture, yet they make us feel like there is something architectural to them.” (Sou Fujimoto)

Cloud pavilion designed by Sou Fujimoto

ABOUT

Sou Fujimoto (1971-) designed a cloud-shaped pavilion. He expresses his admiration for clouds, and his belief that they are “the ultimate architecture that envelopes all kinds of things for its immense size”. Inspired by clouds that float over various countries, regions and environments, as if they were a “big roof of the world”, he designed the pavilion under the concept “a place for everyone”, to symbolize diversity and tolerance. This pavilion is installed at two completely different locations, Yoyogi Park and Takanawa Gateway Station - a park and a recently built train station building. By placing the exact same thing in different locations, Fujimoto not only aims at visualizing the differences of each location, but to express the concept of a cloud enveloping various places at the same time.

HOW TO VISIT

Venue 1: Yoyogi Park (near Panorama Grass Field)
Yoyogi-Kamizono-cho, Jinnan 2chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Opening Hours: 10:00-18:00
Note: There is no dedicated parking lot. Please refrain from coming to the venues by car as parking is limited in the neighborhood




Venue 2: Takanawa Gateway Station (inside the ticket gate)
2-1-220, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Opening Hours: From first train to last train

Note: There is no dedicated parking lot. Please refrain from coming to the venues by car as parking is limited in the neighborhood.

Please Note:
・In Yoyogi Park (near Panorama Grass Field), there is a nursery school adjacent to the pavilion. Please take care to avoid accidents with children.
・In Takanawa Gateway Station, the pavilion is located inside the station ticket gates. Please do not stand still for long periods of time to view the exhibition so as not to obstruct the passage of station users.

CREATOR

Sou Fujimoto
Born in 1971. He started Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000, soon after his graduation from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo with a degree in architecture. His representative works are Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 201  in London, L’Arbre Blanc in Montpellier, France, and his latest work SHIROIYA HOTEL. He was selected as a winner of several international competitions; the Ecole Polytechnique Learning Centre in Paris in 2015, and the Reinventing Paris project in Pershing/Porte Maillot in 2016. He is the Expo site design producer for the 2025 Japan International Exposition (Osaka/Kansai Expo).