Recognizing the city as a sculpture and
creating a new landscape that communes with water, are defined mentally
and perceptually through a new architectural vocabulary that reproduces
the way of perception of the Japanese garden.
The waterways in Tokyo embody the
ancient past, however today they are abandoned and degraded. Rivers and
canals represent urban boundaries, a kind of intermediate, hybrid and
public space. Kanda river, one of the most extensive and vital rivers in
Tokyo, was used, historically, as the first drinking water
transportation system for the palace.
The recognition of the water element
appear as a crack of the urban sculpture, the research of the current
situation and the vision of regaining the public landscape and the
restoration of the relationship with water, are studied in three scales.
RECOGNITION
The study area, north and south of Kanda
river, is a node of contact of four individual centers of Japanese
capital and is characterized by:
- High density of the urban infrastructure
- -Strong physical relief and many water elements
- Important landmarks of the city and large accumulation areas
- Advanced and extensive transport system...
- -Strong physical relief and many water elements
- Important landmarks of the city and large accumulation areas
- Advanced and extensive transport system...
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