Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Suo Fujimoto Imagine Future Living at House Vision Tokyo 2016
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Future Living is the central idea of House Vision Tokyo, a platform for architecture and design that brings together innovative ideas by some of the country’s most famous architects and creators in a full scale model exhibition. Initiated in 2013 by renowneKengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Suo Fujimoto Imagine Future Living at House Vision Tokyo 2016
Future Living is the central idea of House Vision Tokyo, a platform for architecture and design that brings together innovative ideas by some of the country’s most famous architects and creators in a full scale model exhibition. Initiated in 2013 by renowned Japanese designer and curator Kenya Hara, the 2016 edition, located on the artificial island of Tokyo’s Odaiba district, presents a 12,000 square-meter exhibition circuit with buildings by Kengo Kuma – who also designed the over-all exhibition layout – , Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, and Atelier Bow-Wow, among others.This year’s theme, “Co-dividual – Split and Connect/Separate and Come Together,” is tailored to Japan’s demographic challenges, which are defined by the organizers as “economic stagnation, a decreasing population, an aging society, disasters striking one after another, and increasing friction in interpersonal communication.” The show thus also is an exercise in finding suitable “survival strategies” that may at some point become relevant beyond the borders of Japan, too.Most of all, however, the 12 model structures present innovative and interesting solutions for new modes of living, courtesy also of the various design and tech firms the architects partnered up with, from the Hara Design Institute to Muji, Panasonic, and Toyota, as well as Airbnb whose stylish Yoshino-sugi Cedar House designed by Go Hasegawa will be reconstructed and receiving guests in the town of Yoshino in the very near future.Take a virtual tour of all 12 contributions to House Vision Tokyo 2016 in the slideshow.House Vision Tokyo 2016 runs through August 28, 2016. Click here for more information. Read more