The Face of the Town Academy Common, Meiji University Surugadai Campus

The construction of Academy Common, Meiji University Surugadai Campus was completed in spring, 2004. Along with the Liberty Tower (1998), the project is a part of the campus's reconstruction plan. We have been taking a role in the plan as the lighting director from the first moment. In accordance with the primary concept "an urban campus opened to the town," Academy Common is designed as a large buffer space between Meidai-dori Avenue and Liberty Tower's entrance gate. Students walking to every direction come across each other at this place. The lighting concept was to make Liberty Tower an outstanding light-emitting box in the heart of the town and create a key feature of Surugadai town by harmonizing the tower, artistic sculptures in the zone and the town itself.