Landscape and Commercial Facility Lighting at HIRAKATA T-SITE Façade, Hirakatashi Station, Osaka

Abstract

Brief summary A commercial building with one basement floor and nine aboveground stories that uses books to propose lifestyles. This lighting plan is for a unique facility in which books make up the category information for the products on each floor. The goal was to energize the station-front district by creating a “town living room” that fosters community and generates new value, with the town’s residents as the protagonists. The approach to the facility from the pedestrian deck in front of Hirakatashi Station presents the façade in a distinctive way, showcasing the motions of the people inside. The color temperature of the lighting was carefully selected around a core of 2700 K. Soft light filters from the building’s striking façade through terrace spaces and light wells.