TORAFU ARCHITECTS

ELLE DECOR is a magazine published in 25 nations worldwide, and ELLE DECO INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS, or EDIDA, is given to a selection of designs made by the chief editor of each country. This is the stage design for the top designs as nominated by the Japanese chief editor.

With consideration to the exhibition site at Audi Forum Tokyo, we created a long extended stage which takes the form of a streetscape silhouette in order to create a background for the cars displayed in the space.

Winners of the 13 categories are exhibited inside the ‘houses’ which make up this street. We have utilized all parts of the silhouette stage, where for example works in panel format are exhibited as the ‘windows’ of the houses, while objects can be seen displayed on the angled roofs and a thoroughfare for the exhibition space is designed into the door.

While the stage was made black to become the background of the winning works, the presence of the overall background is retained for the cars as the edges are outlined in white. It was our aim to design a stage which focuses on both the winning works and the cars on display.