Red-light Yokohama

レッドライト・ヨコハマ(横浜、2010年)
Red-light Yokohama, Yokohama, 2010

Red-light Yokohama
細長い部屋を2つに分けて、入り口から見て手前を白く塗り、奥を青く塗った。訪れた人は、青い部屋から白い部屋に戻るとき、赤い光を感じる。青い光につつまれていると、補色の赤色に対する感度が上がるため、白い部屋が赤く見えるのだ。これを補色残像と言うが、その効果は短く、気づけばもとの白い部屋に戻っている。記憶の底に沈みつつある、かつて黄金町を照らした赤いネオンサインが、ほんの一瞬だけフラッシュバックする空間。
The long and narrow space is divided into two sections, one front space painted in white and the other inner space painted in green. Those who come back from green space into white space will feel red light. This is because when surrounded by green light, one becomes more sensitive to red as a complementary color, so that one see white room as red room. This phenomenon is called persistence of complementary color, which lasts only for a second to be turned back soon into original white room. The space recalls the red light that used to be shining on this neighborhood Koganecho from the deep in the memory back to mind in a flash.

Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

吉村靖孝建築設計事務所は、東京を拠点に国内外を問わず広く活動する設計事務所です。ダイナミックに変容する市場、法、規範、環境をデザインの契機と捉え、次世代の建築/都市の姿を模索しています
Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects is an architecture and urban design firm globally operating based in Tokyo, Japan. We aim to realize a new form of Architecture and cities with regarding Market, Laws, Norms and Environment which transform itself dynamically as opportunities of our design.

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