As the fifth project with Tadao Ando, amanasalto is presenting ANDO BOX V, a portfolio dedicated to proposal of Nakanoshima Project II – Space Strata of Tadao Ando. The prints were produced with amanasalto’s cutting-edge technology and artisan skills. In addition, the portfolio includes a three-dimensional model of the same project.

Nakanoshima, a sandbank located in the river that flows across central Osaka, containing the metropolitan government buildings, library, city hall and other cultural and administrative facilities. Nakanoshima Project II – Space Strata development is an unbuilt project for a significant cultural development. Ando designed the site which buried the architecture underground and utilized the surface of the island for its geographic and cultural potential, which can be compared with the one for Île de la Cité in Paris.

“The site seeks to retain the historical landscape and the natural beauty of the park’s lush greenery, I wish to regenerate the island into a cultural complex. It was a self-initiated proposal, which was not requested by anyone. To me, it is in fact a dream, rather than just a job, which I hope comes true one day. ” In determination to the present the ten-meter long drawings of Space Strata, the portfolio is published with our dedicated printing technology with highest permanence.