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Studio Project 2 - Mansions

This was a joint project between UBC students and students from the University of Tokyo and Keio University.

From the brief: “The second project takes up the subject of housing. Design a multi-unit building – a mansion, on one of two sites in Negishi. The sites are particular and very constrained, remnants formed and then left behind by the process of the city’s development. Recycle these sites and amplify their use. ... The form and history of Tokyo challenge our preconceptions about permanence, even if – from a North American perspective – the social order sometimes appears fixed and monolithic. We observe the cycles of daily life transforming buildings and the city in profound ways, informing our understanding of the time of the city, and its durations. The design of a multiple-dwelling unit should expand these considerations to other temporal increments – for example, seasonal and contractual.”

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1200 millimeters in space
Group 1: Ben Alexander, Rebecca Bayer, Philippe Lew, Shukei Hamaya, Daisuke Okuda, Eri Sumitomo

ゆ View
Group 2: Graham Barron, Marsha Martin, Mike Wartman, Miki Kozaki, Ryo Ohsumi, Mina Ri

Transforming Domesticity
Group 3: Simon Montgomery, Helen Ng, Jason Pare, Ryo Ishida, Mami Miyake, Akira Tanaka

coming soon
Group 4: Michael Barton, Natalie Telewiak, Aiden Callison, Umin Gen, Asaka Minami, Midori Noguchi

Hang loose, Tokyo!
Group 5: Mark George, Howard Kim, David Zeibin, Ayane Maekawa, Yoko Manabe