On Japan’s Setouchi Islands, which aims to be an artistic and cultural hub, a house has been turned into a museum.
The museum-house, called the ‘Teshima Yokoo House’, was created in collaboration between architect Yuko Nagayama and artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo—it also involved nearby residents who helped in the building process, making a communal space more than a museum.
Home to the works of Yokoo, the Teshima Yokoo House contains a brightly-colored rock garden, artworks on ceilings, floors and walls.
It also converges art and architecture, according to Spoon & Tamago: throughout the vicinity, the house features translucent red panels to change the appearances of spaces—adding a strange effect to the rock garden and artworks, such that the colors red could not be seen, to make it seem as though the objects that were red disappeared.
The museum also offers funeral and cremation services, as its theme is “life and death”.
[via Spoon & Tamago, images via Nobutada Omote]