2017.09.05 Daiki Ishiguro Architecture Portfolio

Architecture portfolio

DAIKI ISHIGURO

Atunori Ishibashi/Tokyo University of Sience year 2/Autumn 2015

Nature - Architecture In this project, I focused on the constructure of nature, such as a spider webs and huneycombs. I deďŹ ned architecture as a part of the environment where the architecture stands. In contrast to the trees extending upwards, I designed the buildings to collapse upwards. By doing this, a correspondent relationship between architecture and trees are created. Also, by making the architecture exible to the external environment, the internal environment that changes depending on the time of day and the season.

Kagurazaka is a fashionable shopping and dining district along a sloping street in Tokyo near Iidabashi Station. During the Edo Period, Kagurazaka was located just outside the outer moat of Edo Castle and gained prominence as an entertainment district with numerous geisha houses and restaurants. Some of the geisha houses survive in the district's narrow alleys to this date.

Kagurazaka also has a signiďŹ cant French presence due to two nearby French schools. A large variety of French cafes and restaurants can be found throughout the district, alongside a host of trendy and upscale Japanese restaurants and ryotei, many of which are tucked away along the sides streets that lead off of the main slope.

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Mutsue Hayasaka/Tokyo University of Sience year 4/Spring 2017

Disaster - Urban city - Overpopulation In case of a disasters happenning, "humans" can be the most dangerous factor. In addition, increasing amount of people are gathering around Tokyo recently, and overpopulation is apparent. How could architecture prevent upcoming pandemonium? As one possibility for a solution, I tried to designe an architecture including functions of disaster prevention, such as equipment strage warehouse, evacuation shelters and ďŹ re barriers.

HAGI STUDIO/Tokyo University of Sience year 4/Spring 2017

Renovation - The Vacant Housing More than half of households in Japan live in detached houses, but vacant house issues are getting worse in recent years. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as of 2015 the vacancy rate nationwide is 13.5% and the vacancy rate in Tokyo is 10.9%. And the area where the old-fashioned townscape is still called "downtown" where the vacancy rate is rising especially in Tokyo. This project is a project to renovate vacant houses built in Katsushika Ward, one of such downtown areas, to a share house. As a designer to this project I am representative of this share house from the beginning to the end of the project, and as a resident now.