Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka
Shigeru Ban Architects · Fujinomiya, Japan · 2017
Shigeru Ban inverts the familiar silhouette of Mount Fuji into a timber-latticed cone reflected in a shallow pool. Visitors spiral upward inside the cone as if climbing the mountain, culminating in a framed real view of Fuji that completes the conceptual reversal between representation and landscape.