Kyoto, Japan - Urban Design/Social Catalyst
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Civic Center Terminal PROJECT: Kyoto, Japan - Urban Water Chain LOCATION: Kyoto, Japan & Central Honsu area URBAN DESIGN STUDIO PROFESSORS: R. Lovinger (Oregon) D. Yoshimura (Kyoto) DESIGN: Summer 2009 TEAM: P. Chiver N. DiFrank A. McQueen BACKGROUND: Graduate Students spent a total of 8 weeks living in Kyoto, Japan (Daishin-in Buddhist Temple) while also traveling to neighboring prefectures to study Japanese culture, the Kyoto urban fabric & team directed urban design concepts. In addition to a complex studio project, students were limited to the use of watercolor media. DESCRIPTION: In response to the developing commercial and social stagnation throughout the urban core of Kyoto, the design team develops a program that would extend flows of water & people into ‘lost’ urban lots. Existing flows from the Horikawa Canal & the Nijojo (Castle) moat are extended through a series of day lit channels that link multiple, gray-water filtering, pocket-parks throughout the Omiya-Dori Street. The main channel acts as a datum to encourage pedestrian movement through forgotten commercial areas. In addition, new mixed-use community areas are connected and activated. The channel culminates at a new civic terminal that celebrates the reception of the water flows and social interaction, while also housing the main railway hub for the City. After the initial activation of Omiya-Dori is complete, further activation of lost urban space will occur through West/East expansion of the project.
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Civic Center Terminal
PROJECT: Kyoto, Japan - Urban Water Chain
LOCaTiOn: Kyoto, Japan & Central Honsu area
uRBan DEsign sTuDiO PROfEssORs: R. Lovinger (Oregon) D. Yoshimura (Kyoto)
DEsign: Summer 2009
TEaM: P. Chiver N. DiFrank A. McQueen
BaCKgROunD:Graduate Students spent a total of 8 weeks living in Kyoto, Japan (Daishin-in Buddhist Temple) while also traveling to neighboring prefectures to study Japanese culture, the Kyoto urban fabric & team directed urban design concepts. In addition to a complex studio project, students were limited to the use of watercolor media.
DEsCRiPTiOn:In response to the developing commercial and social stagnation throughout the urban core of Kyoto, the design team develops a program that would extend flows of water & people into ‘lost’ urban lots. Existing flows from the Horikawa Canal & the Nijojo (Castle) moat are extended through a series of day lit channels that link multiple, gray-water filtering, pocket-parks throughout the Omiya-Dori Street. The main channel acts as a datum to encourage pedestrian movement through forgotten commercial areas. In addition, new mixed-use community areas are connected and activated. The channel culminates at a new civic terminal that celebrates the reception of the water flows and social interaction, while also housing the main railway hub for the City. After the initial activation of Omiya-Dori is complete, further activation of lost urban space will occur through West/East expansion of the project.
