Portfolio by Eiko Tsuchiya

Contents ■ Into the Realm of Art ■ The Softness ■ Exibition Hall ■ Sink and Pile

● Other Works ● Awards & Publications

Into the Realm of Art

Into the Realm of Art Concept

The themes of this museum are "nature" and "night". The museum is

different from traditional art galleries, which are enclosed in a building that

closes in the evening. It will be open from noon until evening and late into the

night in the vastness of nature. There, people may pass the time relaxing, engrossed in the artwork. There are no rules or order for looking at the art. You can look at any works of art as you like. Like walking a path in the forest, you can wander from one piece of art to another, careless of where to go

next, choosing to enjoy different ways of viewing.

Most of KAGAYA’s works of art are drawings of nature and the universe. An

example is “The Celestial Railroad,” which is a drawing of a scene from the well known Japanese novel. The computer aided painting made extremely

detailed drawing possible. You can enjoy large art works both from far

away and up close. I propose an exhibition space in which people don’t look

at framed paintings in a row on the wall, but they gaze intently at a large

painting and immerse themselves in the realm the artist created.

About KAGAYA

A Japanese digital fine artist. Born in 1968, he has created artworks relating to the universe including CG animation pictures, digital prints, illustrations for astronomical books and magazines. The main themes of his work are the universe, the blue planet, and humankind as a part of the universe --- their dreams and yearnings. His artistry and scientific accuracy enable him to embody the beauty that integrates all the elements of the universe.

Into the Realm of Art

The Softness

If there were “soft” architecture, what kind of life style would we be able to live?

Since the history of architecture began

People have lived in architectural forms To keep off the rain and storms

To cope with the summer heat or winter cold To live in comfort

To protect lives from the mavels of nature Architecture needed to be hard

Everyone has lived thinking If we are in a hard box We can live safely

But, then… Is hardness exactly what the architecture should be like? The space we live in We human beings are “soft” creatures

Having bodies composed of skins and muscles How can I make soft architecture which is soft like human beings

The Softness The possibilities of soft architecture

2. The distance between human and architecture

1. The design Generate new design with new material which

have never used before.

Furniture shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come between humans and architecture.

Because the floor is hard, we need a bed.

concrete / iron / brick / glass etcâ&#x20AC;Ś

fabric, string, cotton / paper / sponge, low resilience material / rubber / vinyl (plastic bags) etcâ&#x20AC;Ś

Generate new designs which are not controlled

by the need for squareness to be horizontal or

We relax on the sofa.

become furniture like a bed or sofa.

Go into the core of the structure. Push through a wall.

vertical.

Crawl into the floor.

A r chi t e c t ur e w ill

3. The diversification of actions Each rooms are assigned specific actions, so the action happens in a specific room.

4. The flexibility of objects If the objects are constituted of a soft material, you can change the shape easily.

You can create or remove spaces as needed. If spaces can be freely varied, the corresponding actions will also be varied. “A window” will become “a door.” The bedroom is not just “the space for sleeping”.

wall ⇔ window ⇔ door ⇔ table ⇔ bench

The Softness

The Softness Photo Gallery

Exibition Hall

Exibition Hall Concept

This Exhibition hall is located in a heavily-forested mountain region. Mountains

spread around the hall, and there are groves and forests with wild animals.

I experimented with a rooftop garden to integrate greenery into the design and maintain the natural environment. Because the site is located on gently-

sloping hilly land, I tried to adapt the buildings to the circumstances, using

curvilinear forms and avoiding straight lines and right angles.

For maximum flexibility in displaying various types of artworks in the large

exhibition space, I used movable partition walls. Also, so that I could adjust the

lighting, I set up movable louvers along the windows.

I employed a column-free space truss structure to make a large open

exhibition space and to support the weight of the rooftop garden without

columns.

Exibition Hall

Exibition Hall The Passage of the Seasons

Exibition Hall Structural Model

Sink and Pile Theme : Architecture in Harmony with Mighty Nature

Sink and Pile

Human beings have generated various technologies to protect themselves against disaster, to develop their civili

People made fire, discovered electricity and even changed the temperature inside their rooms, and then, they be

As they have solved one issue, however, so the development of science and technology have led to various disco

Thinking globally, in the ne

ization, and to have comfortable lives.

egan to control the global environment.

coveries in one cycle after another.

There is an artificial island called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yume-Shimaâ&#x20AC;? in Osaka Bay. Where there was once sea, human beings have created land by the use of their developed technologies. This land, imposed on nature, now faces the problems such as subsidence and liquefaction.

ear future, the surface of the sea will began to rise, and even now, it is changing all the time because of the tides.

Sink and Pile ■ Concept In this proposition "Mighty Nature"

means the force of the nature

uncontrollable by human beings, and "in harmony with" means not to resist

the force of nature, but to work with

■ Suevey Changing Sea Levels ● The Rise in Sea Levels Currently, greenhouse gases causing a

temperature rise in the atmosphere is

nature itself.

regarded as a problem around the world,

means at our disposal to prevent

are increasing every moment. Basically, it

but to accept the sinking and, in the

by changing in atmospheric and water

surroundings that are changing with

of the melting glaciers in Antarctica, and one

Our solution is not to use every

including Japan, and the greenhouse gases

the man-made islands from sinking,

states that the change in sea levels is caused

process, live with the architectures and the times.

■ Site

temperature. Global warming is the main cause

of the biggest problems in contemporary society.

Surplus containers ● The increase of distribution The expansion of globalization due to the

development of Information Technology

promoted the increase of distribution.

Nowadays, we can obtain products easily all over the world. It is because the rationalization

of transportation and the decline of costs

has been made possible by the introduction of container system. With the growth of the

Yume-Shima, Osaka, Japan

worldwide distribution system, it is estimated

that container handling will increase.

● Land subsidence Yume-Shima, the site of this project, is an

● Flux and reflux Flux and reflux are phenomena whereby there

island created by humans. The artificial island

is a change in sea levels due to the gravity of

the load on island. Therefore, the island needed

on the earth. In Osaka Bay, using sea surface

is sinking under its own weight of island and sustainable management in the future.

the moon which pulls the surface of the sea

as the base, the sea level ascends 1000 mm

at high tide, and the sea level descends 1000

mm at low tide. The sea levels are changing in 1,200,000

24 hours in a day, and the gap is at most 2000 1,000,000

mm.

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1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000

● “Export” ＜ ”Import” Japan imports large quantities of resources

and products from around the world, and

400,000 ● Super-Hub Port 200,000

On Yume-Shima, there is a large container 0

terminal called “Super-Hub Port”, which started

in fact, the amount of imported goods and

running from October 2009. Until recently

The number of empty containers in Japan is

the entry of large ships was regulated but that

materials is larger than that of exported goods. increasing because producing new containers

is cheaper than returning the empty containers

to countries one has exported goods to. Thus,

the empty containers are left and stacked

along the harbors.

Osaka Bay, due to the water’s shallow depth, was improved after the Super-Hub Port was

opened. So the possibility of large ships from

Europe and America entering the harbor, from now on foreign trade looks set to increase.

1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 0

Sink and Pile ■ Method In this proposition we use

mainly containers. Containers are standardized and available

in four sizes. Containers have the advantage of being easy

to move, so the containers can

expand in a horizontal direction. Also, containers are easy to

stack, so they can be arranged vertically by cranes in a harbor.

Thereby, it is adaptable flexibly

in the land being inundated, and current time harbor facilities working now can be taken in that

process.

● Necessary Properities of Containers ・Water proofness ・Toughness ・Standardization ・Stackability ・Movability ・Easy of maintenance

● ISO-standardized configuration

There are 4 types of containers: 20-feet, 30-feet, 40-feet and 45-feet.

■ Process ● The process of submerging the containers

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We have hypothesized submerging the containers and piling them up over a long period of time.

Sink and Pile ■ Plan

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Sink and Pile

Other Works Awards & Publications

Other Works Sketches

Wooden Relief 67

Other Works Paintings

Models 69

Awards & Publications The Softness Sendai Design League Nationwide Contest for Graduation Design in 2010

Collection of at the Osaka Technology

Qualified [Best 100]

Won an honor

If there were “soft” architecture, what kind of

life style would we be able to live?

This is a proposal for a dwelling which will

pursue "softness" from all angles - such as

building materials, shape, and flexibility – so that this building may function in community

as both a place to learn and as a place to live, the focus being on children.

It is regrettable that results

of "softness" lacked cohesion.

is a gap

equipment in amusement

the proc

It seems like play ground park.

The sense of form in the

architecture is insubstantial, though the unique space is

Because of concern that she had been focused on only competing

with a strained wooden structure, the work received few votes at

first, however, it was reassessed because of the strongly intuitive way

in which structure were formed through the use of fabric.

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remembered unawares.

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f Designs Contest a Institute of in 2009

Compilation of Designs at the Architecture Institute of Japan Competition in 2010

orable mention

n't seem "soft". There

Won in the Kinki Region branch

In this proposition "Mighty

Nature" means the force of the vast nature uncontrollable by

human being, and "in harmony

with" means not to resist the

force of nature, but to accept

nature itself.

Yume-Shima, an ar tificial

island, proposed in this project, had problems such as land subsidence and liquefaction. Our

solution is not to use, to the full,

every means at our disposal to

prevent from sinking the manmade islands, but to accept

sinking and, in the process of

sinking, live with architectures and

surroundings that are changing with the times.

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This is a colorful, as if it is Lego Blocks, and perfect powerful presentation. As

entrust with a rise in a sea level and land subsidence of artificial island, sunken containers are left and disposed, and stacked one after another. They venture not

to say about the question such as inner function, deterioration of sunken parts,

differential settlement and approaching only ships. The proponents symbolize

containers as civilization, and ringing an alarm bell to rise in a sea level by the radical

methods reclaim land from the sea by containers above the sea surface. Also, they

show that dilemma that the more they stack containers the more containers sink themselves. The symbolic message using containers was evaluated highly.

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