Invisible Train, Designed By Japanese Architect, Set To Hit Tracks In 2018

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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.

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’.”

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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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Le Louvre Lens museum in France.
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According to the changing light conditions of the day, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York seems to lighten and darken spontaneously.


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