Beauty of Time Passing

Traditional Japanese architecture harmonically blends nature with the artificial. Using light, glossy wooden floors, garden ponds and paper screens, the outside enters the home through reflected light. Toshihito Endo sees this use of light reflection as humanity’s oldest attempt at virtual reality. Most modern cityscapes, however, inhibit this particular use of light. A smart digital window that opens to beautiful nature scenery aims to modernize this ancient virtual reality. Through vertically stacked blocks of glass, its light and colours reflect on the surrounding walls. It shows various nature scenes that you can match to the weather. Where technology can sometimes make us lose touch with the outside world, Toshihito sees an opportunity to help us reconnect with nature.