Junya Ishigami designed this workshop at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology just outside Tokyo. This is a building designed by the architect to almost disappear if you don’t look carefully. Ishigami explains the rationale behind his design, which left me scratching my head but nevertheless:

I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space, rather than a universal space like that of Mies” says Ishigami. “This allows a new flexibility to emerge, revealing reality rather than shaping it.