Kazuyo Sejima, one of Japan’s leading architects, has designed a super-reflective train for Seibu Group – famous for their high-speed bullet trains – to celebrate the group’s 100th anniversary. The seemingly invisible train, which blends into the scenery in both urban and natural environments, is expected to hit the tracks and cover over 178 km throughout Japan in 2018.
What could possibly go wrong?
Japan’s Newest Train Design Will Be Practically Invisible https://t.co/bFsCbADcL4— Robert A Stribley (@stribs) April 4, 2016
Sejima, a Pritzker Prize Laureate alongside her architecture firm SANAA partner Ryue Nishizawa, has redesigned Seibu Group’s Red Arrow commuter train to be “soft” and “blend into the landscape,” with an interior that has the feeling of a “living room.”
“The project concept was introduced to me as ‘a new limited express train like nothing seen before’. This is of course my first foray into designing a limited express train, however I think the biggest difference with standard architecture is that the train is able to travel to a variety of locations. The limited express travels in a variety of different sceneries, from the mountains of Chichibu, to the middle of Tokyo, and I thought it would be good if the train could gently coexist with this variety of scenery. I also would like it to be a limited express where large numbers of people can all relax in comfort, in their own way, like a living room, so that they think to themselves ‘I look forward to riding that train again’.”
Sejima and Nishizawa have used their unique design style on numerous high-profile buildings, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Le Louvre Lens Museum in France; the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Rolex Learning Center in Switzerland; the Toledo Museum of Art’s Glass Pavilion in Ohio; the Christian Dior Building in Tokyo; and a sinuous cultural center at the Grace Farms nature reserve in Connecticut.
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