Axonometric view of Aoyama-Itchome Station and the Museum of Loneliness, illustrating how transit networks intersect with the building’s layered circulation to negotiate shifting thresholds between urban movement, retreat and re-emergence.
Three imagined rooms depicting each character’s preferred environment for withdrawal, showing how masking and unmasking, threshold spaces and daily routines shape the spatial expression of their individual forms of solitude.
Mask Library depicted as an underground archive where donated personal items are organised by relationships, education and career, allowing visitors to borrow objects and gently explore identities.
A blank facade with a narrow opening where Oba Yozo peeks out, capturing his cautious, fragmented attempts to watch the world while remaining hidden.
Tsukuru Tazaki's imprint carved beside the tracks, a narrow threshold where stillness and passing trains frame his quiet contemplation of death and his uncertainty about whether to move on.
Safe spaces within the Museum of Loneliness where each character quietly resides.