Omotesando Street in Tokyo, Japan, an avenue gathering the world’s fashion big wicks housed in buildings that are designed by the world’s most prominent architects, hosted a competition to design a Fashion Museum. The Competition Competition 2011 winning design has been named. The first prize has been awarded to the concept ‘Wearing the woven gown’ by architects – Anahit Hayrapetyan, Narine Gyulkhasyan and Nairi Abramian.
The design brief required a 100 meter (328.08 feet) tall tower, which would house the fashion museum. On reaching completion, the museum will feature exhibition halls displaying the fashion history of the twentieth century. The winning concept – the Wearing the woven gown – has been designed taking its inspiration from fashion, drapes and fabric. The structure displays a model like appearance, wearing a designer outfit and ready to hit the ramp.
On its exteriors, the building features an outer shell that has ‘thread–like’ solar tubes. The museum’s energy needs are fulfilled by these threads along with the adding the unusual element to the design of the building. The spaces within building flow uninterrupted and are yet uniformly organized into galleries. Evolving from the center of the building, these galleries reach out endlessly forming a pattern between the inside and the outside of the structure.
Exhibitions commence from the ninth floor to the top of the building. Visitors to this Fashion Museum will also experience another unusual element that is the moving walkways that connect the various portion of the building. The main venue of the fashion shows is the catwalk, which is the most magnanimous of all areas in this building. It includes cantilevers situated 35 meters above the ground at the Omotesando Street.
Additional amenities at this wondrous structure are Green terraces situated over the galleries and a sky bar that is at the extreme end of the building, which gives a sort of a satellite view of Tokyo.
Via: behance
