Final Presentation: Class Excerpts
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- Nathan Meyers, Jeffrey Lam, Page 2
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- Nathan Meyers, Jeffrey Lam, Page 1
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- Tim Cheng, Mike He, Joshua Smith
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- Tim Cheng, Mike He, Joshua Smith
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- Tim Cheng, Mike He, Joshua Smith
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- Tim Cheng, Mike He, Joshua Smith
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- Tim Cheng, Mike He, Joshua Smith
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- Tim Cheng, Mike He, Joshua Smith, (Section)
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- Jason Tucker, Carmelia Chiang, Brian Pace, Page 2
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- Jason Tucker, Carmelia Chiang, Brian Pace, Page 1
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- Bijan Haghnegahdar, Manuel Oh, Mike Piscitello, Page 3
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- Bijan Haghnegahdar, Manuel Oh, Mike Piscitello, Page 2
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- Bijan Haghnegahdar, Manuel Oh, Mike Piscitello, Page 1
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- Jeffrey Kuruvilla, Douglas Leung, Mike Nesbit, Page 2
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- Jeffrey Kuruvilla, Douglas Leung, Mike Nesbit, Page 1
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Bijan Haghnegahdar, Manuel Oh, Mike Piscitello
Flyers for Tokyo Final!
Flyer designs by Carmelia Chiang
Link to maps of SCI-Arc Tokyo Final Review location:
http://www.hosei.ac.jp/english/about/map/access/ichigaya/
Building 10:
http://www.hosei.ac.jp/english/about/map/campus/ichigaya/
Diagram Research
The following are diagrams generated prior to our midterm review, they are serving as a basis for our studio projects through the semester. We are focused generating a deep knowledge base from the large city scale down to the smaller block scale. This is allowing us to continually think critically about our design decisions and to know that our design propositions of a future Tokyo are grounded in reality.
Block Diagrams
District Diagrams
Ku Diagrams
City Diagrams
Site Research and Site Model Planning
Five scales of early city and site modeling and mapping.
To (City)
To (City)
Ku (Ward)
Chome (District)
Ban (Block) View B
Ban (Block) View A
Go (Building)
Yunitto (Unit)
Yunitto (Unit)
Nakagin Capsule Tower
Film Excerpts
Wenders, Vin. Tokyo ‘Ga.’ 1985.
Oshii, Mamoru. Tokyo Scanner. 2003. (Part 1)
Oshii, Mamoru. Tokyo Scanner. 2003. (Part 2)
Iwai, Shunji. Swallowtail Butterfly (Yentown). 1996.
Oshii, Mamoru. Ghost in the Shell. 1995
Otomo, Katsuhiro. Akira. 1988.
Ozu, Yasujiro. Tokyo Story.1953.
Coppola, Sophia. Lost in Translation. 2003.
Anno, Hideaki. Neon Genesis Evangelion. 1995.
Neo Tokyo
Tarkovsky, Andrei. Solaris. 1972.
Shuto expressway
Kurosawa, Akira. Rashomon. 1950.
camera work, contrast
Resnais, Alain. L’Année dernière à Marienbad. 1961.
traveling camera
Reed, Carol. The Third Man. 1949.
Wells, Orson. Touch of Evil. 1958.
Shorts:
Pixar. Tokyo Mater. 2009.
Takahashi, Nobuo. Musashino Plateau. 2007?.
computer generated landscape
Takeuchi, Yasuto (Dokugyunyu). Taking pictures in a park all day long.
Methodology
Ichikawa, Kon. Tokyo Olympiad. 1965.
Japan’s high-growth period
Olympus. The PEN Story. 2009.
Methodology
Riefenstahl, Leni. Olympia. 1938.
neo classic figure, camera work
Tokyo Life, Festivals, and Site Research
photo by Chloe Brunner
This weekend we all went out to explore the different wards of Tokyo. The city seems to turn into a different animal when the sun goes down and the neon lights illuminate the buildings. Its a sea of purple, yellow, red, green.
The neighborhood we are living in is quieter than the majority of places we have visited. The street are smaller, the people more polite. After a few days our neighbors are starting to recognize us and saying hello with a head nod in the mornings. It is a great place to wind down after the constant trips to Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Roppongi, and Harajuku our group has been taking.
photo by MCP
Saturday morning we woke up to the beat of drums and wandered out to explore. There was a procession followed by a festival. We are still trying to find out the name of the holiday/festival, but no luck so far. The food was amazing and the experience surreal. It seemed as though everyone in our neighborhood of Shinotsuka was out for the evening. There were street vendors selling toys for the children, fish and turtles in tanks, and local food. After winding through the maze of street vendors we found ourselves in front of a small temple. A line wound down the steps as people waited to pay their respects.
photo by Jason Tucker
photo by Jason Tucker
Today we are starting to get down and dirty with our site research. We were separated in groups to break down the To, the Ku, the Chome, the Ban, and the Go building. It should be a very busy week, our deadline is Friday the 17th. The work environment is much different here than being home at Sci_Arc. Our studios are open Mon-Fri 8 AM to 11PM. We are all learning to be more productive during this time and use the limited hours to crank out as much work as possible. We are off now to explore the site in more detail. Until next time…
_Josh
In the beginning….
Day 1_
As a group we spent the day pounding the pavement of Tokyo. So many things to see. It was definitely a sensory overload. We started the day meeting at the base of the Capsule Tower. It was a shock to see the scale of it in comparison to the newer office buildings in the area, a building familiar to all architects run down and eclipsed by the new glossy face of Tokyo. We explored the blocks around the building starting with a two block area and worked our way out to Ginza and the local train station.
photo by Josh Smith
photo by Josh Smith
photo by Josh Smith
The neighborhoods around the Capsule tower are diverse in their programming, from Ginza which offers some of the most expensive food and shopping in the world, to the fish markets that offer any type of sea food imaginable. The area lends itself to an incredibly rich environment that we hope to get to know more about the next few weeks. Our semester is ramping up and everyone is excited to start our site research around the Capsule Tower. We will keep the blog updated as we progress through the next few weeks.
Japan Studio (Fall 2010) – Background
The Vertical, the Dense; Trajectories for Tokyo in the 21st century
In many ways, Tokyo was the prototype city for the rapid growth, high-density and infrastructure-heavy urbanism that has now spread around the world. With the utter catastrophe of World War II, Tokyo had to be re-built and re-thought and a scale and speed that has only recently been surpassed in places such as China and Dubai. The scale of Japan’s (and America’s) investment in a way of life and the infrastructure to support it is still unrivaled. Now in the 21st century, Tokyo is being re-built and re-thought again. With massive new investments in infrastructure and a new government desperate to dig out of the current economic malaise Tokyo is trying to learn from its rich, varied past and emerge again; re-affirming its position as one of the pre-eminent economic and cultural cities in the world.
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