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Home For All, Rikuzentakata Japan – Toyo Ito

Home For All, Rikuzentakata Japan – Toyo Ito

2013

After introducing the various projects in the japanese pavilion of the 2012 venice architecture biennale, the collaborative team of japenese architects including Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, and Akihisa Hirata have built a full-scale prototype of their gathering house concept open to the public in rikuzentakata. In response to the great east japan earthquake of 2011, the group of architects worked together to explore possible future typologies  for japanese coastal cities that may be prone to similar events. Using a system of natural wooden columns like pilotis arranged on a regular grid, the volumes are suspended in a three-dimensional matrix like a complex home on stilts with a relationship on both the horizontal and vertical axes of the different layers of the dwelling, sometimes maintaining the orthogonal nature of the foundations while at others exercising the exception. ‘A home for all’ serves as a gathering space for the thousands of people that were left homeless after the devastating natural disaster.

Further Viewing:

Home For All, Venice Biennale 2012 – Toyo Ito 

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  • Akihisa Hirata,
  • Community,
  • Home For All,
  • Japan,
  • Kumiko Inui,
  • Sou Fujimoto Architects,
  • and Toyo Ito & Associates Architects

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