Lighting of the Entrance Gate of the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Osaka Prefecture]

Fig. 1 Floodlighting of the entrance gate.

Fig. 2 A view from the dragon tail.

Brief summary

This is a museum of which almost all the facilities are located underground. At ground level, there are a plaza 1 (#r1 open space) and a glass and steel entrance foyer. The entrance gate was designed to be a monument to serve as a gateway for the whole area, in keeping with the grand design for the future development of the area. (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2)

In order to realize the floodlighting of the tangle of curved lines, three dimensional illuminance analysis was used in the lighting design process.

Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Scale: Gross floor area 13487m², with three floors underground and one floor at ground level
Client: Government Buildings Department, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Design: Cesar Pelli & Associates Japan, Inc.
Design collaboration: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc.
Completion of construction: March 2004
Materials provided by: Takashi Tanaka (Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.)
Photographs (Fig. 1-Fig. 2):Copyright Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

*This text is quoted from “Data Sheet of Illumination“ published in the Journal of IEI-J, Vol. 90, Number 1,January 2006. The journal article contains a description of the illumination facilities.

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