ITARU YAMAMOTO PORTFOLIO

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− Profile

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Manabu Chiba Studio

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Shigeru Ban Studio

LASH -Linear After School House-

Gap of Walls

Tokyo University Master Course 2012

Keio University Bachelor Course 2011

Selected as the 2nd prize

Selected as the award of excellence

Bachelor Graduation Project

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Bridge of Revival Competition

Isezaki 6-chome International Development Scheme

Roof Over the River

Keio University Bachelor Course 2011

Still Waiting for the Judgement

Selected as the 3rd prize 032 018

TamaHome Design Competition 2014

Central Glass International Cpmpetiton 2014

Spreading House, Parasited City

Escola de la Escadas -School of Steps-

Honourable Mention

Selected as 2nd prize

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Profile

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Name

Itaru Yamamoto

Nationality

Japanese

Date of Birth

1987. 9. 27

Education

2004. 09 - 2006. 08 Bloxham School Private High School in England 2007. 04 - 2011. 03 Keio University, Bachelor Course Studied at Shigeru Ban, Hironori Matsubara, Shigeki Hori Laboratory 2012. 04 - 2014. 08 The University of Tokyo, Master Course Studied at Hiroshi Ota Laboratory

Work Experience

2011. 04 - 2012. 03 Ito-Juku Initiative for Tomorrow's Opportunities in Architecture Architecture School operated by Toyo Ito

Profile

2014. 10 -

Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop

Profile

Competition Prize

Selected as the 1st prize

2012. 08 Central Glass International Competition 2012

Honourable Mention

2013. 09 DaiwaHouse Design Competition 2013

Honourable Mention

2013. 10 TamaHome Design Competition 2013

Won the Elimination Round

2014. 02 Daito Kentaku Competition 2014

Selected as the 2nd prize

2014. 08 Central Glass International Competition 2014

Selected as the 2nd prize

2015. 01 TamaHome Design Competition 2014

Honourable Mention

2015. 03 SRF Competition

Honourable Mention

2006. 07 - 2006. 08 Hiromura Design Office 2007. 08 - 2007. 09 Sou Fujimoto Architects 2008. 08 - 2008. 09 Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office 2009. 08 - 2009. 09 Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop 2010. 03 - 2010. 09 Toyo Ito Architecture Office

Workshop

2007. 07 Kids Architecture Workshop "Let's make a soft architecture" with Toyo Ito 2011. 04 Support of the reviving plan of kamaishi 2013. 03 Yabuki Revival Workshop

Contact

Address 15-5-4F, Izumi-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan 221-0842 Phone Number +81-80-4371-0927 / +81-45-323-3790 E-mail yaitaru@gmail.com

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Internship

2011. 12 DaiwaHouse Essay Competition 2011

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Manabu Chiba Studio

LASH -Linear After School HouseManabu Chiba Studio Tokyo University Master Course 2012

Program :

After School care for Children and Day Nursing Service

Theme :

Architecture for kids

Site :

Yokohama, Japan This Linear site is originally used as a rail way for Toyoko-line. Now it is used as a Linear park which is almost abandaned.

Jury :

Manabu Chiba, Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Mikiko Ishikawa,

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Noboru Kawazoe, Hidetoshi Ono, etc Time Period :

2012. 4. 5 - 2012. 7. 15

Prize :

2nd Prize / Aquired a vote from 8 juries out of 10

Software :

Rhinoceros, Cinema 4D, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator

In this studio, we are asked to design some institution for kids. As long as the place is for kids, we were allowed to design anything. As I had an experience of visting an after-school when I was an elementary school student, and I couldn't like the place very much, I thought why I did not like there. The reason I came up was the architecture of the after-school. If the architecture was different, the attitude of mine could be also

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different.

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Manabu Chiba Studio

Manabu Chiba Studio

In Japan, population ageing is a very serious problem. However there is no critical solution for that and many aged people have lost the place that they feel communicated. As the number of children dicreases and the number of the aged increases, we should no longer consider a public facilities for only one group of people.

Ordinary

LASH day-use

Primary School +after-school

stay

As the graph below shows, the number of single parent family and the number of dual income family both sharply increases each year. Which means the number of children who spend their time by themselves at home, also increases. As local communities are taken apart, children are more and more isolated.

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(million families) 80

(million families) 1200

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600 1980

1990

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2012

Site Plan 1:3000

0

100m

The site is called "Flower Green Street". It was originally a rail way and renovated into a linear park for pedestrians. The park has width of only 10m, but people very rarely use the park, even though there 1980

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are many schools around the site. I propose a new type of after-school.

Building Process This architecture is constructed in three steps. As I wanted to release the ground level because it is already used as a park, I came up with this giant slope architecture. To have these three steps, it is structually possible, and also could have varieties of spaces.

Phase.1 less than 5째

Draw an arch on the site which have very gentle angle so that even the aged people can easily go up and down. The highest degree of the slope is 5째. This would be a standard line.

Phase.2

To pick the line up and down, make one more line. This line is crossing the standard line at some points.

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Phase.3

Between these two lines, 8 spaces can be found. These spaces have diffenet activities. Some spaecs are separeted and some are overlapped each other.

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CAR PUBLIC

HALL

AFTER-SCHOOL

FARM

DAY-CARE

This artificial ground connects the ground level activities and aerial activities. According to the proportion of the architecture, entire space and the edge of the city and architecture will be seamless.

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PEDESTRIAN

Manabu Chiba Studio

Plan & Section This linier architecture has many different functions. Functions are placed by undulations. This building itself is a park, so anybody could walk through as a pedestrian bridge. This architecture is an after-school for kids, day-care for elderlies, a public park and street for everyone.

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AFTER-SCHOOL

DINING

West Side Plan 1:600

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West Side Section 1:400

Middle Part Section 1:400

Middle Part Plan 1:600

PUBLIC

Interiors are constructed in two different spaces. One is under the upward-arching rays and the other is above the downward-arching rays. Consequently, the spaces above the downward-arching rays are more close to the ground level; therefore the functions are more public.

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Details

11 In the drawing below, two upward-arching rays stand next to each other. Two arches lie on top of one another, a linier space is created. This inner space could be used for two separated functions or one connected function. As the space is long and narrow, the functions could be laid gradationally.

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Bachelor Graduation Project

Isezaki 6-chome International Bachelor Graduation Project Keio University Bachelor Course 2011

Program :

Complex Facilities

Theme :

Fight against modern mega development

Site :

Isezaki, Yokohama, Japan One of the oldest area in Yokohama, where many small stalls still exsist.

Jury :

Fumihiko Maki, Shigeru Ito, Hironori Matsubara,

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Yoko Kinoshita, Hiroto Kobayashi, Yasushi Ikeda, etc Time Period :

2010. 9 - 2011 .2

Prize :

3rd Prize / Selected for an Extramural Exhibition

Software :

Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator

This project is my graduation project for bachelor course. In this project, we are not given any theme, therefore we have to find it by ourselves. As the masterpiece of my bachelor course, I decided Isezaki as the site. The place is in Yokohama where I grew up and live.

The site has interesting atmosphere that small stalls gather and sex industries have so much power. However even such site is under the project of mega-development. If the

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scrap and build is necessary, I instead propose the new way of development.

Normally if there are two different sites, two buildings on them are naturally separeted.

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Concept

However in this project, even though the owner of the lands are different, if the site is next to each other, they have to share the wall that stand just the edge of the site. With this system, having the separeted small site, one can have the biggest site efficency from the site.

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Site

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1. Steel Construction

2. Wooden walls on the structure

4. The building next door shares the wall

5. New part of the building mount on

3. Make the openings on the wall

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Building Process

6. People use the building

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Scraping boxes from the volume. The surface area increases with this process.

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The frame structure and walls are separeted so the owner can attach the walls where they want.

thickness.

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The wall is built from a panel with 500mm width and 50mm

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Plan

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Italian

Tailor

Massage

Cafe

+400

Cafe

±0

Karaoke

Calligraphy

+200

Noodles Chinese

Post ±0

Travel Agent

French

+800 +200

+400

+200

±0

+1200

Second hand book store

+600

Study Room

+400 +200

±0

+400

+800

+1200

+4000 Plan

1:800

+12000 Plan

1:800

Private Night School

+1600

Laundry

Graphic Design Office

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Ballet School

General Store

Flower Shop

±0

Fast Food

+200

Day Care

+2000

Fast Food

Sweet Shop

+1600

+1200

Newspaper

Atlier

+400

Indian Food

+400

+200

±0

±0

Yoga

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Ground Level Plan

+400

±0

Indoor Farm Public Library

Piano

+800

Dump Site

Office

Stage

Waiting Room

1:400

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Section

North - South Section

1:400 15364

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5421

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81240

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Non Continuous Building :

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Bulding are separeted to each other

There is no property line to each other

West - East Section

1:400 5124

8500

6500

7400

4300 62434

4700

6100

5550

5350

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Continuous Building :

Central Glass International Competition 2014

Escola de la Escadas

- School of Steps -

Central Glass International Competition 2014

Program :

Education Centre

Theme :

Symbol of a town

Site :

Favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Favela means slam in Brazil. There are many problems in this site. We set the unique character of this site as a symbol to solve the problems.

Jury :

Riken Yamamoto, Kengo Kuma, Hiroshi Naito,

Favela

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Taro Ashiwara, etc Time Period :

2014. 1 - 2014. 3

Prize :

2nd Prize

Software :

Rhinoceros, V-ray, Photoshop, Illustrator

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Drug Cartel Vicious Circle

Poverty

Vicious Circle

Unemployment

The theme of competition this year was "Symbol of a town". We are asked to design a new symbol. Many modern cities especially in Asia are losing their symbols, because the urban development equalize the landscape of the city. Under the situation, we found the place that still has the great symbol in Favela, Brazil.

However on the other hand, the enviroment there is getting worse. I aimed to improve the site with the new symbol that they already had. The title of the work is called "Escola de la Escadas", meaning "School of Steps" in Portuguese that will become the new education core within the Favelas.

Drug Cartel Poverty Unemployment

Education

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Employment

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Rio de Janeiro

Botafogo

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Reusing the abandaned arachitecture

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Stairs to cause various activities

Clothes as a local symbol 160

Kitchen Recreation

Regional Life Local School Job Training

Controling the Natural Enviroment

Job Practice

300

Class-Room

160

Exhibition

Shopping Street

Stage Type

1500

Dinning Rest House Studio

Structural Skelton

Visible Symbol

Hotel for Everyone

Hall

Recreation Market

Plaza

Clinic

Niche Type Unused House

Brick Stair

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160

Class-Room PlayGround Stage

300

Public Line

160

Offers from the Local Residents Meander Type

CIty

Favela

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1500

Temporal Accomodation for Kids Public Library Play Spot After School

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Church

Rest House

Stage under a Tent Exsisting Street Playing Sports

Using Roof-tops

Nature

Place of Education as a Symbol of a Town

Education-Core

Despite the sharp rise in population in the last decade, lack of basic infrastructure is

We believe the spread of education is essential for improving this

1. Versatile Education Space

still a big issue in the area, and the lack of connection with the outer cities make it

situation. Now, we propose “Escola de la Escadas”, meaning “School

The brick step will ascend along the

difficult for dwellers to find proper jobs. In order to improve this situation, the spread

of Steps”in Portuguese. We have chosen Botafogo, one of the largest

mountainous slope, and along different

of education is essential. According to statistics, up to 69% of the population has

Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, as the designated site. This Favela has 3

inclinations, various stepping patterns will

not finished compulsory education, and 69.5% of the population are illiterate. As a

characteristics. First, the area holds a high number of vacant houses.

be designed to host different educational

result, people cannot find a way to live outside of the Favelas.

Second, the favela is built along a sharp mountain slope, and third, it

activities.

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Negative Chain in Favela

has a dense population compared to normal urban areas.

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17％ 7％ 59％

2. Living Infrastructure for the city

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This school of steps will not only be a place

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for children to receive education, but also for

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an opportunity to bring infrastructure into the

69.5％ 69％

area.

Programs in the flow of time

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Morning : Schools and functions for kids

Evening : Trade school for adults

Night : Hostage for abandaned kids and shops for public

A dinning space

Kids taking a lecture

Various Activities Central Glass International Competition 2014

Public library and etc

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Shigeru Ban Studio

Gap of Walls Shigeru Ban Studio Keio University Bachelor Course 2010

Program :

New style of ordinary shopping street in Japan

Theme :

Wooden Structured Building

Site :

Tokyo

Rule.3

Tokyo's typical residential district.

Jury :

Shigeru Ban, Hironori Matsubara, Hiroto Kobayashi

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Yasushi Ikeda, etc Time Period :

2010. 4 - 2010. 7

Prize :

Award of Excellence

Software :

Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator

This is an early work of mine.

We are asked to design a wooden structured building in a very typical residential district in Japan. This studio was supervised by Shigeru Ban, and he didn't ask anything except the site and the structure.

Instead of making one small building in one small site, I decided to infect the whole street. There used be a

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shopping street at any residential districts, but since the high economic growth in Japan, those local shopping streets are died out by the political urban zoning and nowadays they barely exist in Tokyo.

The project is to raise the local community through proposing 6 new local rules of street use.

Rule.4

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Rule.1

Rule.2

Rule.5

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Rule.6

Shigeru Ban Studio

Shigeru Ban Studio

Rule.1

Rule.2

Rule.3

To set the 1st floor as the commerce, owners are allowed to

This architecture has not limited area. People rent spaces as

Superimposing wooden flames forms the structure.

construct 2nd floor striding over the street.

much as they want to live or do businesses.

1F flames and 2F flames stand next to each other and points of contract support 2nd floor.

400mm

Dwelling

Public

Dwelling

Dwelling

Commerce

Public

Commerce

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6m

3m

7m

8m

1F Frames 2F Straddling Frames 2F One Side Frames

Rule.4

Rule.5

This architecture is not only for residents but also for the city.

Shops overflowing to the street are accepted, but the street still belongs to public, and every local resident has the user right.

The idea propose new way of human life to the banal and boring

1F is not always shops nor 2F is not always dwelling. People decide how to use the building according to their merits.

residential district that has no human activities on streets.

This could be a new district-center for everybody.

1F PLAN

1:400

2F PLAN

1:400

To keep the building airy, human activities overlap each other. On 1F, many public activities range like a prado. On 2F, many lives range. This makes a new urban-scape that the zoning system has been demolishing.

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Rule.6

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Bridge of Revival Competition

Roof Over the River Bridge of Revival Competition

Program :

Bridge to link shopping district and public park district

Theme :

To propose a bridge that could be a symbol of revival for Minamisanriku in Tohoku

Site :

Minamisanriku, Tohoku

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Where the earthquake and Tsunami attacked in 3.11.

Jury :

Kengo Kuma, Masato Araya, Katsuya Hirano, Masahiro Harada (mount fuji architects)

Time Period :

2015. 5 - 2015. 6

Prize :

Still waiting for the judgement

Software :

Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator

This is a competition to propose a bridge in Minamisanriku where the earthquake and Tsunami attacked in 3.11. The winner of the competition have the actual chance to implement the idea. The river set as the site is deviding two designed areas such as shopping district and public park district. There is a plan to make a pedestrian street through two district and the bridge is set in the middle of them.

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To be a symbol of the town, I propose to span a roof instead of so-called bridge.

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Bridge of Revival Competition

Bridge of Revival Competition

Bridge is originally for joining two areas that

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are divided by a river or a valley. Bridge was considered that it doesn’t have any other functions. However if bridge was used as a room with a purpose, what would it be like. As bridge connects two areas, it has a potential to be a core for a city. I didn’t choose to span a bridge, instead I chose to span a roof that becomes a symbol of Minamisanriku. Under the roof, Minamisanriku stays together as one.

Concept

1. Span an arch bridge that becomes the basic structure over a river

2. Extrude the pedestrian street from both sides to cover the arch

3. Two sides jostling against each other get turned upward

Deal Drawing

Ray to Park

Flow from city center

Timber from Tohoku

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Stringer Square Pipe (200 x 200 t=12) Link to River

This bridge has two different roles. To the

Chevron Beam H-Steel (500 x 300)

shopping district, the bridge catches the urban axis and to the park district, the bridge is used as an observation platform.

Structure To jostle againt each other, the structure becomes stronger

g

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Beam String

The arched beam structure is completed as the

Short Pillar Beam String

beam strings attached to the arched beams.

Wood Deck

Chevron beams are connected to it to reinforce

Arched Beam

more strengths.

H-Steel (500 x 300)

4. The street and the bridge joined together as one structure

5. Cut off the bridge with semicylinder volumes to make some openings

Landscape of Shopping District Side

6. Some slabs slide into the openings and they have functions for urban activities

7. A roof is spanned over the town and people gather under the roof

Landscape of Park District Side

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TamaHome Design Competition 2014

Spreading House, Parasited City TamaHome Design Competition 2014

Program :

Detached Housing

Theme :

New House Building for Smart Town

Site :

Tama, Tokyo, Japan The site is a new residential area, developed by TamaHome, which will be completed in 2016. We are asked to design 5 detached housing in the site. These houses are required to have public functions.

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Jury :

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), Manabu Chiba, Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Yasuaki Onoda, etc

Time Period :

2014. 12 - 2015. 1

Prize :

Honourable Mention

Software :

Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator

In Japan, we have a huge public transportation network that brings decreasing number of new car sales.

Although the situation is showing that we ought to grow out of motorization, most Japanese house makers still provide houses with their own car parking lots. In this competition, I was asked to design 5 detached housings in the middle of new developed residential area. I decided to make these 5 detached housings like a

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building block, so that each unit could be removed to the parking lot of each ordinary houses in the area.

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TamaHome Design Competition 2014

This architecture is composed of 6mĂ—2.5m elongated units.

Residents can customise to extend and reduce the units as

2.5m 6m

they want and need. The positions and the size of openings are also decided freely as what they use the space for. This unit is used not only for housing, but also for commercial space that local residents could rent or for public space that anybody could use.

Type.A

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Combination of 5 Basic Units

Dimentions of Basic Unit

Type.B

Units Combined

Type.C

Type.D

Type.E

3 Phases of Construction This architecture has 3 phases to be completed. Building in stage,

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the space will be many different patterns as the time pass.

Phase.1

Phase.2

Phase.3

At first, provide 5 basic spaces for residence. This 7mĂ—7m space has minimum functions for housing and garage.

Residents add units to the volume, as many as they need according to the number of their families and how they live.

Connecting the building to frontal road and lot line, new units are added. The spaces are used for shops and public.

6m

[Ă—1,000] 9000

As the data shows, the number of new car sales in the city center section is decreasing annually. That means car prevalence will be smaller in the near future. According to the situation, we could imagine that

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decrease, I propose the system to use the unnecessary parking lot into a part of housing.

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Local residents could buy or rent units to fill their empty parking lot to extend their house or have external commercial space.

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1988

2006

Numer of new car sales is decreasing since 1988

Ordinary Parking Lot is the same size as one unit

No. 2-1-2

No. 2-2-15

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No. 2-1-1

5

2.5m

3000

The size of 6mĂ—2.5m is the same size as ordinary parking lot of normal housing in this residential area.

No. 2-2-9

4

2.5m

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many houses in cities no longer need the parking lots. As I postulate that the necessity of parking lot will

Parcel Identification Numbers

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Rental Unit for Parking Lot

From Residential Street to Multipurpose Street This new residential district has no public or economic functions, just like most of the Japanese residential areas. As the number of new car sales decreases, to change the function of each parking lots, we could provide a totally new street in the area.

Units that finished its role moved to the empty parking.

Townscape with Unit

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Site Plan

Ordirnary Townscape

Afterword Gratitude for reading my portfolio.

Through the works in this, not only the skill I studied, but also I tried to phrase my own utopia as Karl Manheim said “Thinking of Utopia avail than thinking of Ideology�.

I believe that a miscellany has to be the accumulation of what I thought and experienced going beyond the accumulation of skills. If these works could depict my background itself, I am very grateful. Again thank you for reading through this page.