BRICOLAGE OF SPACE

The competition called for proposals for a new commercial space using digital technology.
During the Covid-19 Disaster, interaction in virtual spaces became established as a means of communication worldwide, but while the ability to connect with people from all over the world at any time is appealing, it is still difficult to share physical sensations, and people are reminded that humans process vast amounts of information, including the surrounding environment, transmitted through communication in a fraction of a second.
 
Therefore, we did not rely solely on digital technology, but aimed for a place that embraces the richness of real space created by a kind of irrationality that cannot be expressed in numbers.
 
Lévi-Strauss once called it ‘Bricolage’, which he considered to be a way of thinking that uses materials at hand, utilises minute differences at various levels and appropriates them for other purposes and uses than the original, rather than ‘modern knowledge’, which assumes a complete blueprint.
 
This project is the opposite of the reproducible space created by modern commercial methodology, a space like a city where the space itself is Bricolaged by the activities of the people who live there, and is born and grows by chance. The idea was to create a new kind of commercial space where such fundamental human thoughts are physically output and the shape changes and is renewed on a daily basis.

＞Japanese