SUBURB
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Project • By kurosawa kawara-ten • Offices
Ichihara Life and Work commission office
In 2020, with COVID-19 raging, the remote work has been installed semi compulsorily, a very innovative lifestyle for Japan, it was thought that more people would consider leaving densely populated areas such as central Tokyo and Chiba City to live in the suburbs or more rural areas.
Masato Chiba
In response to the emergency situation caused by the corona crisis, Ichihara City in Chiba Prefecture established “the Ichihara Life and Work Commission”, a public-private partnership to accept people who wanted to move to the satoyama area, while at the same time taking measures to prevent infection.
Masato Chiba
Yosuke Takahashi, who had been working as a member of the Regional Development Cooperation Volunteers in the Kamo... More
Project • By kurosawa kawara-ten • Offices
co-saten
We planned the coworking space near the west side of Goi station in Ichihara city.The project owner is thinking that the town should be changed with structural change of the industry center development and the area of the station where is occupied industrial labor could be changed to the place for the people as the new style of working as nomad workers spent their time.The shopping arcade the coworking space belong had been made up of 10 fresh foods shops but there are some bars and bank ATM form the last fishmonger closed some months ago.Because the shutter of the bars are closed day time and open at the night time normally, the shopping arcade are thought all closed by people who using the station.This kind of situation often occurs in th... More
Project • By Louise Braverman Architect • Exhibitions
Hyperloop Suburb-2018 Venice Biennale
HOW DO WE WANT TO LIVE?Suburbs are typically thought of as dystopian, insulated places. Currently, on display at the Time Space Existence exhibition during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Hyperloop Suburb, a speculative immersive installation, explores whether hyperloop technology can breathe new life into these liminal spaces. The implication for suburbs, situated between the urban and pastoral, suggests an impending regional re-think, asking the primal question “How do we want to live?”BRINGING AIRPLANE SPEED TO GROUND LEVEL TRAVELBringing airplane speed to ground level travel, a hyperloop is a high-speed transport system capable of closing the distance between the city and its rural periphery. Thanks to worldwide testing of th... More