Heijo Palace Invitation Hall

[Project description]
"Heijo Palace Izanaikan" is a guidance facility built in the Suzakumon Hiroba maintained in the National Heijo Palace Historic Park. We will convey the significance and splendor of the Heijo Palace Site Historical Park, a “special place” where you can still feel the Nara period, and invite you to parks, temples and shrines that retain the vestiges of the past.

[Customer's challenges/requests]
To guide visitors to the Heijo Palace Site, we aimed to create a "guidance displays that increases interest in the Heijo Palace Site and leads to an emotional experience when visiting the site."

[Solution]
Our aim was to create a spatial representation and experiential impact of the unique characteristics of the Heijo Palace Site, which are often difficult to perceive from the actual site, thereby inviting visitors to the field.
The zone is broadly divided into three sections: "The Present State of Heijo Palace Site," which guides visitors through the park as it is today; "The Life of Heijo Palace," where visitors can learn about and experience the life of Heijo Palace in its heyday; and "Beyond Time," which interprets the Heijo Palace and the capital of the past through artifacts.
By changing the approach for each zone and creating a sense of exclusivity through the five senses, displays was designed to evoke a sense of awe and wonder when visiting the actual location.
 

<Our project members>
[Development] Haruya Miwa, Kazuya Hashizume
[Sales/Project Management] Haruya Miwa
[Planning] Shigeo Fujii, Yuka Sueda, Setsuko Nishimura
[design, layout] Takeo Akamine, Tadashi Yuasa, Tomoyo Tsukiyama
[Signs & Graphics] Yoshito Inoue, Satoko Hasegawa
[Production and construction] Hayato Ichimanda, Goro Yamano, Ryohei Yamaoka, Yoshito Inoue, Katsumi Yamada, Satoko Hasegawa, Nanae Hori
[public relations] Takeo Akamine, Shigeo Fujii, Yoshito Inoue, Satoko Hasegawa
[Review Engineer] Kazuya Hashizume