Vom 16. bis 30. April 2024 geben wir einen Workshop an der Tokyo Tech University. Wir sind gespannt und freuen uns sehr auf den Austausch!
Under the premise that the world is already largely built in most Western societies, as well as in Japan, our design approach primarily focused on a reading and understanding of the context, then, on the reintegration of qualities and possibilities in order to formulate radically new approaches and design solutions. In this context, the social aspect of architecture seems to us, to be an essential but often neglected aspect: How do you develop “active” and inclusive neighbourhoods? What role can working and communal living play in this?
Through on-site research, we are looking for the defining patterns of Ookayama and their potential as a driver of diverse densification. The apparent threshold spaces between the private, semi-public and public spaces are to be captured in their complexity and formulated architecturally. Building on this knowledge, new forms of working and communal living are to be developed through a reinterpretation of the existing and thus show alternative possibilities for redensification in Ookayama.
