architecture
François Blanciak is an architect and Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has worked for architectural firms in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, and New York, with such architects as Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman.
S I T E L E S S Blanciak
The MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 http://mitpress.mit.edu
978-0-262-02630-7
S I T E L E S S 1001 Building Forms
François Blanciak
SITELESS
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SITELESS 1001 Building Forms
François Blanciak
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
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[email protected] or write to Special Sale Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Helvetica Neue by the MIT Press and was printed and bound in Spain. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blanciak, François. Siteless : 1001 building forms / François Blanciak. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-262-02630-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Architecture—Composition, proportion etc. 2. Form (Aesthetics) I. Title. NA2760.B52 2008 721—dc22 2007015858 10
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter One: Hong Kong
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Chapter Two: New York
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Chapter Three: Copenhagen
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Chapter Four: Los Angeles
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Chapter Five: Tokyo
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Chapter Six: Scale Test
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Credits
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book has been prepared in various countries: China, Denmark, the United States of America, and Japan, over the course of the last five years. Only in its final stage could I focus on this work full-time. Hence, I have to first thank the Japanese government for subsidizing my first years in Tokyo as an independent researcher by providing me with a fellowship. It is surprising that one of the most unaffordable and supposedly chaotic cities in the world turned out to be the most stable environment for gathering and developing my ideas. Debt is also owed to my former employers; Aaron Tan, Bjarke Ingels, Peter Eisenman, and Frank Gehry, for enabling me to develop my work on the side from different urban locations and diverse dogmatic approaches. Yet, in the serial, crafted, and siteless nature of this study, a greater deal of inspiration comes from the architects Iakov Chernikhov, John Hejduk, and Hermann Finsterlin. A number of individuals have also either encouraged or questioned my work with sharp criticisms, and pushed me to enhance its quality. Among them (in no specific order): Ali Tabatabai, Napoleon Meraña, Yoram Lepair, Michael Sorkin, Aida Mirón, Masashi Nagamori, Leopoldo Sguera, Tom Russotti, Vytautas Baltus, Tynnon Chow, Amadou Tounkara, and Siri Johansen managed to formulate constructive comments. In addition, the insights of Michael Wert and André Moore Guimond have been helpful in the editing of my manuscript. Finally, I must avow that the physical condition of Tokyo—a city that threatens to collapse at any time—is what forced me to publish this rather venturesome oeuvre without further delay.
F. B., Tokyo, January 2007
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We think the more directions that architecture takes at this point, the better. — Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi Learning from Las Vegas, 1972
INTRODUCTION
The body of work that follows aims to fill the expanding gap between a profession that glorifies morphological originality through media exposure and a more secluded field of architectural research which, unlike its scientific counterparts, paradoxically neglects experimentation and the manipulation of form through its sole focus on writing. Proposing a creative alternative to critical academic literature, this study develops a prospective series of forms that focuses on the nucleus of architecture, the building as a unit (whether touched by others or left aside), and on the clarity of expression of its generative idea. As a result, in the coming chapters, text has radically been replaced by form. In order to multiply the range of potentialities in architecture, this study accepts the physical aspect of buildings as its primary component (the periodic denial of which proving vain) and proceeds by trial and error. Rather than striving to identify a singular design method, it searches in as many directions as possible, then isolates a multitude of devices intended to differ from each other and to be open for further development. As a bank of ideas from which articles can be picked to fit particular sites and purposes, it embodies the desire to exceed the sum of concepts that come to mind when confronted with the overwhelming situation of an actual project. The traditional sequence “program plus site equals form” is here intentionally inverted: as in ancient column orders, schemes are conceived prior to site insertion and subsequent relationships or adaptations. Yet beyond archaic dogmas, although a number of these figures constitute mere criticisms of recurrent paradigms in the discipline, most aspire to innovate and envision a more diverse future; to the point that many require construction techniques not available to date, if not different gravitational values. In the absence of any given site, chapters are simply named after the locations from which the ideas they contain were conceived.
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This chaotic sequence of places is employed to reveal a content that resists the primitive reaction of classification and thereby acknowledges the discontinuous nature of the creative process. Within a series that eventually generates its own context, scale—its a priori building material— is left to the imagination of the reader from one item to the next, with a range that can span from megastructure to cabin size. For the sake of versatility, the illustrations of this series have been drawn freehand. What could appear as a deliberate reaction to the quasi-unanimous computerization of both architectural representation and building design process is, in fact, a simple choice of convenience. Not unlike the way physical modeling materials influence form, operating systems turn out to induce software-specific shapes, to the extent that they become barriers to the production of diversity. Making room for various layouts, freehand drawings have been reduced here to their most neutral expression, in order to minimize the input of the gestural and to extract the essence of the concept in its most intelligible formulation. This abatement of representational effects is extended to the adoption of a constant viewing angle, which, in turn, enhances the perception of both peculiarities and kinships. In its layout, the present volume reproduces the graphic framework of a language. Not unlike the way a plurality of syllabaries cross each other in Japanese writing, several levels of character complexity are here juxtaposed with a quasi-absence of punctuation. Each entry is allocated the same amount of paper space (basically a square), whether extremely complicated (like kanji, or Chinese ideograms), simply curvy (like hiragana) or bluntly straight (like katakana). The parallel can be stretched to the reading experience itself, which can be carried out horizontally as well as vertically, and almost invariably from left to right or the reverse. Under each element though, captions, which in many cases preceded the drawings themselves, have been added to support or complete the depiction of their respective meanings. Like a centrifugal escape from the cycle of serial fantasy, the last chapter reconnects with the cultural realities of an existing site in Japan, and becomes a scale test. Literally rescuing this opus from art book shelves, it exploits and shows the ability of this series to morph
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into proper building proportions with the outcome of a project, as the opposite of a conclusion. Selected for its median qualities in terms of size, program hosting capacities, and feasibility rather than for its demiurgical pretensions, a single scheme is released in the dense urban environment of central Tokyo to show the inherent flexibility that this set can offer. In return, this final part intends to reveal the sitelessness of all the other items by contrast.
INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE
HONG KONG
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2
mosaic slab
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3
dissected facade
6
5
blown corners
7
panel globe
kneeling pyramid
8
split column
9
stretched arch
triangle bridge
zoning windows
column jam
swollen triangulation
elbow tower
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
3
13
14
packed slab
sigma building
16
17
pixel circle
19
18
20
22
inflatable floors
21
acoustic slab
23
sleeve towers
optician building
pitched-roof dilemma
alternate cantilever
4
15
pebble square
24
physical sketch
windproof tower
25
26
house arena
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27
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swollen tiling
fan slab
stretched wire frame
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climbing pitched roof
genealogical tower
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blown shafts
pebble tower
pinned-down tower
reduced high-rise
36
window reel
structural parasites
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
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38
hula hoop cone
40
dissected plan
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43
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44
fingerprint windows
46
continuous wire frame
45
cushion landscape
47
minced cantilever
base pleat
columnless arcades
hopping frames
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39
tentacle columns
48
recycled yards
double-Y tower
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50
split building
underground program
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cone lanes
palm block
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lifted halls
skin = circulation
seismic columns
lava slab
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courtyard splash
sphere cross
60
buoy structure
creeping tower
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
7
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hinge slab
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P tower
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grid line
defragmented tower
napkin structure
71
liquid cuts
high-rise plot
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magnetic portholes
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concentric columns
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topo column
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garland tower
volume vs. lines
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vegetal shafts
cross tower
meteor facade
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79
cracked towers
pillar crown
bubbling tower
81
80
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infinite tower
program falls
translation block
burried square
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stretched referential
giraffe tower
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
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tower mime
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tripod house
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ground-floor stretch
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S cuts
94
paw columns
93
double-loop tower
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cardioid arena
sliced floors
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skewered origami
10
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paper slab
96
butterfly block
permanent scaffoldings
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98
hollow tower
100
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101
cubical dome
103
102
moment balconies
104
hollow girder
106
pitched cross
105
crafted corners
pyramid teepee
107
fractal pyramid
foundation free
rounded corners
108
circular cantilever
pumpkin block
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
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sliced balance
112
oblique floors
113
pebble facade
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continuous balconies
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skin vs. volume
119
cubic jaws
translated hall
mosaic lasso
roof column
12
111
slide tower
120
racquet tower
continuous block
121
122
global slabs
124
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flake slab
milled portholes
125
bipolar block
127
126
compressed path
128
stem towers
130
129
fiber program
131
hatched floors
locked tower
pitched floors
132
digital slab
district tower
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
13
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pyramid shield
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sunken erasure
simple top
cone dome
143
program dodge
dried panels
141
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introverted tripod
gill windows
lotus globe
14
135
comet structure
144
atomic towers
fractal heap
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revolving bundle
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lifted diagonal
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balcony pyramid
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chalky cantilever
solid wire frame
WTC proposal
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peeled facade
opus tower
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inflated disk
recycled tower
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pitched stair
timber windows
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
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double roof
limp corridors
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checkered arch
stalactite structure
telescopic corner
flat circus
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checkered portholes
hunched cross
hirsute facade
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node hub
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forced grid
floor stretch
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city-block stack
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tower jet
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horseshoe tower
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pyramid tower
double arch
179
wall projections
window stretch
crawling slab
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crumpled regulation
hatch building
180
armor tower
scalped dome
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
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radar tower
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city-block chain
189
dancing column
column boa
191
cavity yard
floor loop
spilled structure
188
190
jiggling grid
shrunk plot
diagonal sphinx
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spool tower
crumpled disk
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194
planted arena
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195
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pitched-roof column
199
198
mineral crop
echo block
square trap
203
centrifugal columns
soundwave corner
201
200
202
evaporative tower
slab splits
eroded program
204
middle settling
facade sheets
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
19
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205
tower node
208
inertial windows
209
forced towers
211
210
212
214
drain tower
213
fiber columns
215
double U block
huddled slab
fractal bridge
lambda floors
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radial hall
216
wood slab
stellar column
218
217
orientation tower
220
219
forensic housing
222
221
3/4 cantilever
223
elastic block
Paris plan windows
jaw slab
224
half-moon tower
buried star
CHAPTER ONE HONG KONG
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CHAPTER TWO
NEW YORK
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226
tuning tower
228
227
ignited slab
229
crunched corners
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walking circuit
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buttress towers
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hanging antenna
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pitched crown
235
roof crack
ripped corridor
musical openings
236
tome stack
tectonic floors
CHAPTER TWO NEW YORK
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globe stretch
reciprocal floors
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243
projected park
disk hops
filled outline
prop block
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shelf building
structural heroism
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sparkling block
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241
Z building
26
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248
lying towers
pitched corner
249
250
cantilevered trunk
252
251
blown pyramids
254
253
expansive windows
255
257
facade surplus
lying totem
checkered pitched roof
wrestling slabs
bark facade
256
258
rotary cantilever
259
split disks
260
corner wedges
outlined windows
CHAPTER TWO NEW YORK
27
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262
extruded ruin
264
program knuckles
267
dotted block
268
mesh building
270
pixel meteor
269
calendar panels
circulation tower
271
globular tower
circumventing towers
266
265
split tower
28
263
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amoeba windows
pennant slab
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274
pinecone flats
276
275
courtyard triangle
277
tamped cone
279
278
expanded block
280
bifurcated balconies
282
chapped column
281
floor hook
slalom structure
283
inverted ruin
quartered globe
284
radial facades
caryatid towers
CHAPTER TWO NEW YORK
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286
lopsided stack
288
program bondage
291
roaring pilotis
rolled circle
can flats
brushstroke building
column jaw
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294
causeway towers
290
289
structural sheet
30
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295
rubber facade
296
packaging top
trimmed heap
297
298
glowing square
corner hubs
300
299
301
dotted-marks tower
303
302
square vs. tower
305
prop cantilever
307
wrung city block
facade drag
dry curtain walls
304
306
dotted frame
flat curve
308
floor trap
barrel square
CHAPTER TWO NEW YORK
31
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310
floor container
312
lifted ground floor
313
315
314
316
program overload
318
projected slab
317
block jam
319
ramp ring
sky seizure
switchboard block
flat column
32
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bicephalous tower
320
floor press
evanescent tower
321
323
322
attached tower I
horizontal stalactites
324
325
O plan N section
326
corner traction
328
327
shutter bulge
attached tower II
spiral trench
329
open plan
circus towers
330
dome vs. cupola
CHAPTER TWO NEW YORK
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CHAPTER THREE
COPENHAGEN
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pentagon tower
334
333
335
oblique twist
337
336
ramified tower
339
star vs. square
341
open city block
foliate facades
finger-frame towers
338
340
cornet slab
fingerprint urbanism
volume simulacrum
342
medallion slab
CHAPTER THREE
XYZ megastructure
COPENHAGEN
37
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344
grid vs. frames
346
column spray
347
girder globe
349
348
350
352
reeled windows
351
frame blend
353
flexible ban
UN building
heaved hall
column floor
38
345
street cupola
354
foliate block
dried floors
355
356
spool disk
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357
bubble arch
359
column vs. column
361
360
autophage city block
362
tendrilled loop
364
wood-stock building
363
penguin tower
365
shucked facades
functional towers
concurring arches
366
leaning city blocks
CHAPTER THREE
globes vs. globe
COPENHAGEN
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368
frame set
tissue hall
370
373
sinus slab
375
sitting arches
audio facades
377
program oozing
circular cubes
ascending floors
374
376
shinto tower
372
371
beam bundle
40
369
378
solid stages
introverted facades
379
380
extruded zoning
floor bud
382
381
383
cement slab
385
384
corner radiation
386
extruded erasure
388
window film
387
paper comet
prop walls
389
fourfold floor
beveled edges
390
radius overlap
CHAPTER THREE
facade tension
COPENHAGEN
41
391
392
underground arch 394
facade towers 395
397
396
398
urban arch 400
magic pilotis 399
dotted sequence
tangential globe 401
score windows
homothetic square
pinned column
corner tower
42
393
402
envelope building
canvas slab
403
404
woven dome
406
405
escalator block
408
407
forced louvers
409
program dragon
bloom section
# building
413
hidden corners
cantilevered link
411
410
412
circulation worms
unravelled corner
414
pitched-roof slab
CHAPTER THREE
decanted tower
COPENHAGEN
43
415
416
concentrate gravity
418
regulation wrap
421
in-and-out column
422
graphic-scale building
424
unraveled slab
423
pitch ceiling
425
shelter tower
cone seal
420
419
circle vs. cone
44
417
finger yards
426
window tape
triangle towers
427
428
roll tower
430
429
captive buildings
431
section windows
433
432
circulation corners
434
dancing balconies
436
vascular balconies
435
ignited strip
437
edge target
trapped dome
tree globe
438
room carving
CHAPTER THREE
functional section
COPENHAGEN
45
439
440
lasso structure
442
strip release
443
confetti towers
445
444
446
448
liquid square
447
outlined cantilever
hatched pyramid
449
domino slabs
plug-in columns
expanded dice
rearview windows
46
441
450
nuclear tower
fold-averse slab
451
452
extensive corners
jacked-up block
454
453
456
455
ocular tower
457
anchored block
458
directive building
460
pitched-roof cube
spiral cyclops
spring floors
459
back-to-back towers
461
cement towers
462
structural strata
CHAPTER THREE
paper architecture
COPENHAGEN
47
463
464
viral tower
466
467
469
468
fission section
471
square tornado
structural obstacles
473
continuous pillar
moving target
prostrate tower
470
472
swollen facades
walking pyramid
room chain
48
465
474
column heap
erupted pyramid
475
476
disk roll
478
477
dotted farandole
479
minced slab
tube pack
480
tower follicles
CHAPTER THREE
balloon building
COPENHAGEN
49
CHAPTER FOUR
LOS ANGELES
481
482
olympic building
484
483
485
limp tripod
487
486
490
489
projected block
extruded camouflage
491
wheel tower
capsule tree
back-pass towers
488
underground towers
linear vs. concentric
erected veil
492
billboard floor
CHAPTER FOUR
vertical zoo
LOS ANGELES
53
493
494
resurrected building
496
parcel crash
497
corner squid
499
498
500
502
Goode projection plan
Lobkowitz tower
shading frames
mummy slab
54
495
room geyser
501
dotted tower
503
corner arch
504
stapled slabs
grid shot
505
506
tripartite globe
508
507
walking circle
509
bottomless tower
511
510
stellar weaving
513
locked slices
515
slab kick
competing towers
spinning rooms
512
514
chute tower
treble-clef tower
516
piercing structure
CHAPTER FOUR
pillar takeoff
LOS ANGELES
55
517
518
519
chalk tower
520
city-block hug
521
vitruvian circulation
523
524
526
structural rendering
525
wired structure
527
oblique pixel
56
522
checkered cantilever
coiled steel
e-building
stretched city block
528
dome stack
ribbon tower
529
530
trenched dome
532
531
ground-bound floors
533
spool steps
535
534
paper floors
536
eye slab
538
ballast dome
537
puddle pyramid
539
tube dome
mold facade
dancing floors
540
pitched-roof belt
CHAPTER FOUR
viral structure
LOS ANGELES
57
541
542
statistic structure
544
thick tape
545
Beuys tower
547
546
548
550
wired shading
549
twofold canyon
551
tower glass
girder cone
extruded path
globe glove
58
543
puzzle facades
552
napkin slab
city-block jam
553
554
ivy screen
556
555
tower arena
558
557
program glass
559
convergent towers
561
cube screw
dome plus
563
log-joint building
free Plan Voisin
pyramid pennant
560
562
pillar stock
564
cube hug
CHAPTER FOUR
garland floors
LOS ANGELES
59
565
566
program pie
568
edentate block
569
chimney column
571
570
572
574
animal caryatids
573
scribble glazing
575
solar grid
drying antennas
magnet square
building melee
60
567
obstructed periscope
forsaking cantilever
576
linear globe
577
578
walking node
580
579
skyline jar
581
ferris elevator
583
582
solid glass
584
sequence towers
586
rotative arena
585
UC block
587
dripping skylight
diagonal release
hoop columns
588
cantilevered pennant
CHAPTER FOUR
flat hinges
LOS ANGELES
61
589
590
tower globe
592
dog-eared pyramid
593
calendar cone
595
594
596
598
housing slabs
597
bondage columns
599
forced facades
belt structure
S frame
walking slab
62
591
half-S section
600
braid tower
roof cap
601
602
curtain slab
604
603
U-turn tower
606
605
shriveled square
607
creeper columns
ostrich arch
bundle block
611
drilled rock
chain tower
609
608
610
grid dome
pyramid crunch
612
D tower
fractal whale
CHAPTER FOUR
LOS ANGELES
63
613
614
leprous block
616
618
617
619
unstuck windows
620
diameter axis
622
telepathic towers
621
peeled ceiling
623
hoist tower
hinged flats
spit towers
meshed slab
64
615
lattice slab
624
city-block dome
curly plus
625
626
coral portholes
628
627
630
629
digital section
631
eye slab
633
progressive grid
635
amplified facade
optional corners
city-block spool
632
634
globe vs. dome
vertical Atomium
funnel wire frame
636
U-turn building
CHAPTER FOUR
interface facades
LOS ANGELES
65
637
638
global cross
640
642
641
643
amoeba slab
exponential balconies
program texture
finger-frame lock
647
horned corners
pigtail towers
645
644
646
internal battle
collision crop
topo facades
66
639
648
ticket tower
crown jaws
649
650
frame slab
652
651
654
653
block hug
655
spiral bowl
topo stairs
oblique wave
659
climbing balconies
cubical ivy
657
656
658
program potato
wire-frame column
striped bowl
660
corner columns
CHAPTER FOUR
column jaws
LOS ANGELES
67
661
662
665
668
670
669
671
floored facade
needle column
digressive columns
circular stairs
double hinge
68
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mixed floors
beam trap
667
structural scales
square stretch
globe stack
664
663
672
skittle block
unit evaporation
673
674
comb house
676
675
vacuum towers
677
dog-eared slab
679
678
inverted pitch
680
oblique table
682
substracted columns
solid lighting
rotary city block
681
outline overlaps
683
map tower
684
globe corner
CHAPTER FOUR
tripod hug
LOS ANGELES
69
685
686
girder arch
688
corner lift
691
glazing snare
692
lifted towers
694
erectile shutters
693
block wave
695
corner locks
global plan
690
689
oblique slices
70
687
acoustic rooms
696
frequency block
double cone
697
698
rotary Plan Voisin
700
699
square mapping
702
701
seizing courtyard
703
structural antenna
flattened hemisphere
excursive corner
707
turbine block
hollow star
705
704
706
half structure
refused skyscraper
708
vanishing sequence
CHAPTER FOUR
A4 building
LOS ANGELES
71
709
710
corrugated corners
712
tower dissection
715
line pack
housing towers
triple fold
719
mac tower
insulation facades
717
716
718
sleeve tower
714
713
ribbed slab
72
711
coefficient walls
720
paper balconies
slab steps
721
722
chamfer tower
724
723
structural scene
725
audio corner
727
726
crossed pitched roof
728
barbed-wire structure
730
solid fishnet
729
dimension block
731
ionic cantilever
grid bulges
squeeze-box facade
732
stapled floors
CHAPTER FOUR
split column
LOS ANGELES
73
733
734
suburban tower
736
735
simulated sphere
738
737
congested corner
739
stellar towers
sticker panels
74
bobbin facade
743
frayed square
crushed arena
741
740
742
quadruped slab
fern columns
744
hurricane facade
corner impact
745
746
corner steps
748
747
749
stretched pyramid
751
750
pillow structure
752
cantilevered satellite
754
sea-horse column
753
peeled sphere
755
flattened block
facade wrinkles
revolving stripes
sawtooth edges
756
pyramid cube
CHAPTER FOUR
crown tower
LOS ANGELES
75
757
758
crown square
shaft locks
760
763
facade suction
flint pitched roof
imbricated slits
767
peeled roll
cloud carousel
765
764
766
tortile wire frame
762
761
diamond tower
76
759
snooker urbanism
768
corner substitutes
sunken windows
769
770
dried grid
772
771
stamen block
773
telescopic city block
XXX floors
774
landed Sputnik
corner cloud
775
crisscross sections
CHAPTER FOUR
LOS ANGELES
77
CHAPTER FIVE
TOKYO
776
777
pixel magnets
779
778
clover tower
780
ball-bearing floors
782
781
radial dome
783
incremental program
785
dog-eared chessboard
784
street-pattern tower
786
tube tower
radar slab
erectile cantilever
787
flattened globe
crater portholes
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
81
788
corset tower
791
793
792
794
grid chunk
hesitant cantilever
eight tower
798
menhir jam
deflatable tower
796
795
797
hollow pyramid
dipped city block
tangential beams
82
790
789
flag building
799
maelstrom plan
beam building
800
801
twig square
803
802
flaccid edges
805
804
bundletower
806
structural hub
807
pyramid blimp
809
akimbo tower
808
global tower
810
modern buttresses
stealth circle
splash towers
811
columnless floors
bumped geode
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
83
812
813
continuous Cerdà
815
room studs
816
can wave
818
817
819
821
window spray
820
insulation block
822
triple E
sag bridge
column jaw
vying arches
84
814
glove slab
823
yard tape
pillar facades
824
825
column spray
827
826
structural orbits
829
828
underground Atomium
830
program shake
831
coaxial floors
833
iconic building
832
spiral straitjacket
834
swollen streets
tile floors
circulation ivy
835
wrung floors
kanji tower
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
85
836
837
tower belt
839
cone rebound
842
extra corner
jaw circle
crane towers
846
kanji plan
discharge structure
844
843
845
chain-link towers
841
840
plunger facades
86
838
globe menhir
847
perspiring program
plastic atrium
848
849
bondage floors
851
850
852
lateral twist
854
853
rotary center
855
katakana tower
857
turbine sphere
856
curtain-wall can
homothetic slabs
858
facade spray
wrung block
girder building
859
warhead facades
bridge block
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
87
860
861
plunger facets
polar columns
863
864
brick flats
866
865
867
869
ornamental plan
868
whirling tiles
870
concentric towers
spring block
symmetric tower
triangle trunk
88
862
suburban city block
iteration escape
871
organic arkhitekton
872
873
spherical arkhitekton
875
874
moment towers
876
end bundle
878
877
square tostada
879
slab crawl
881
spiral sets
880
drip cantilever
882
slope piercing
USB tower
roof projection
883
shield walls
column star
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
89
884
885
shriveled pennant
887
convex floors
888
hatched block
890
889
891
893
capsule slab
892
hive cube
894
lattice globe
slough tower
corner mitosis
solar tower
90
886
concave floors
895
hinged slab
radar arch
896
897
leapfrog circle
899
898
cantilevered outline
901
900
crawling frames
902
tripod tower
903
post-and-beam tower
905
crumpled globe
904
claw towers
906
globe chain
skewer antenna
iteration leap
907
radial disk
omega block
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
91
908
909
JU tower
911
corner locks
912
tower eruption
914
913
915
917
column slalom
916
pixel flag
918
soft origami
girder tower
acanthus panels
bouncing tower
92
910
global strata
919
dried girder
ramp balconies
920
921
siamese floors
923
922
deep billboard
924
centrifugal balconies
926
925
score building
927
extension icicles
929
canopy slide
928
eye beam
fungal balconies
930
glass meiosis
cuff circle
931
slab lock
radial column
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
93
932
933
corner extensions
935
panel geyser
938
grid bulge
939
panel locks
941
fillet tower
940
whirling pillars
942
bridge tower
excavated cantilever
937
936
slab trail
94
934
continuous facade
943
marble block
street settling
944
945
joint corner
947
946
column heap
949
948
grid sleeve
950
vertical skyline
thick portholes
peeled cone
954
pixel pitch
introverted frame
952
951
953
histogram circle
alternate facades
955
locked circle
hatched tower
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
95
956
957
hatched curve
959
dancing grid
962
half house
wrinkled corners
milled program
966
circular wave
stepped cantilever
964
963
965
homothetic tower
961
960
tripartite column
96
958
housing stack
967
UV slab
ricochet tower
968
969
solid firework
971
970
clamped city block
972
armed slab
974
973
rake pilotis
975
pitched tube
977
tile building
976
double-C tower
978
square mill
modernist pitched roof
column drip
979
trimmed facade
floor round
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
97
980
981
drape slab
983
exponential tower
986
rebound structure
987
dome squares
989
knitting circulation
988
tension sheet
990
woven column
envelope slab
985
984
centerfold building
98
982
shriveled circle
991
Malevich tower
grotto tower
992
993
forced pitched roof
995
994
dissected hall
996
circulation limbs
997
legged loop
stepped rhombus
addition slab
999
998
program rolls
1000
fluffed antennas
frequency strip
1001
nuclear cones
CHAPTER FIVE TOKYO
99
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
Tokyo as testbed
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
103
A tangential leap from the fantastical into reality, this final chapter explores the possibility of implementing a single scheme from the previous series (figure 638) as a building. Formerly inspired by Tokyo’s rigid regulation system, the selected concept reconnects with the actual constraints of a site in that very city, landing on a plot adjacent to Yoyogi Park. The building—a usual combination of commercial, residential, and office spaces—is the result of the collision of twenty-three spheres (coincidentally equaling the number of Tokyo wards) of identical radius, which fuse inward to differentiate various spaces by vaults rather than walls. The seemingly random stacking of these elements allows groupings to create larger rooms when appropriate or divisions into smaller ones when cut by inner floors. The remaining outer membrane of the structure is cropped as it meets the boundary defined by city building rules, thus providing diverse diameters of openings to match the respective functions and locations of the rooms. Facades become sections, leaving the appearance of the whole as a mere by-product of a compelled site-specificity.
1 0.6
真北方向 (north direction)
1 1.25 20m
10m
Zone 3 height regulation system from Shibuya City Office
104
Process model
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
105
N 0 10
Urban situation
106
50
100m
Aerial view
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
107
Street-level view
108
X4
X3
X1
X2
1
D012
RFL=GL+2224
1
4685
D013
1 D151
7FL=GL+1755
モ ル タル t = 2 5 断熱材 t=100
5 D155 ウレタン樹脂系吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対 応 地下調整フカシ t=10 鉄 筋 コンクリート t = 3 5 0
2265
ベッドルーム
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t = 2 0 システム床 t = 6 8 コンクリートスラブ t = 2 5 0
6FL=GL+1530
コンクリート打 放 シ 補修仕上げ モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100
2360
コンクリート打放シ 補修ノ上
ベッドルーム
浴室
5FL=GL+1295
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t=20 システム床 t=118 コンクリートスラブ t=250
モザイクタイル t = 2 5
2685
22245
コンクリート打放シ 補修ノ上
1
1 D102
D105
キッチン
ホール
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t=20 システム床 t=118 コンクリートスラブ t=250
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100
4FL=GL+1025 ウレタン樹脂系吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対 応 地下調整フカシ t=10 鉄 筋 コンクリート t = 3 5 0
天井: プラスターボード t=9.5+9.5
3250
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100
オフィス
オフィス
3 D153
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t=20 システム床 t=118 コンクリートスラブ t=250
3FL=GL+700
コンクリート打 放 シ 補修仕上げ
2 D152
3200
天井: プラスターボード t=9.5+9.5
ショップ
ショップ モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t=20 システム床 t=118 コンクリートスラブ t=250
2FL=GL+380
天井: プラスターボード t=9.5+9.5
3500
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100
ショップ
ショップ
D154
300
1FL=GL+30
4
コンクリート打 放 シ 補修仕上げ
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t=20 システム床 t=118 コンクリートスラブ t=250
GL=+-0.00 天井: プラスターボード t=9.5+9.5
2900
2 ストレージ
ショップ
5000
プラスターボード t=25 断熱材 t=100 湧水処理型枠 t=32 鉄筋コンクリート t=450
バーチ合板 t=12 パーティクルボード t=20 システム床 t=118 コンクリートスラブ t=250
2100
B1FL=GL-290
D153
ピット
3275
1650
3275
8200
X4
X3
X1
X2
0
1
2
5m
Transversal section
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
109
1
1
D012
D014
2
1
1
D012
D014
D213
Y3
Y3
2 D210
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
小売 16m2
エントランスホール 19m2
床:バーチ合板 t=12
1
1
D013
+0.30
D013
+3.80 6350
6350
小売 19m2
床:バーチ合板 t=12 モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
10175
10175
小売 13m2 モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
手すり:スチール パイプ O＝20
手すり:スチール パイプ O＝20
1
Y2
D011
小売 15.5m2
小売 15.5m2
Y2
1 D011
小売 7.5m2
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム
3826
3826
小売 15.5m2
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
2 D211
2 D212
Y1
Y1
3275
1650
3275
3275
1650
8200
X2
X1
3275
8200
X4
X3
X2
X1
X4
X3
N
Level 1 floor plan
0
Level 2 floor plan
1
1
D012
D014
1
5m
2
1
1
D012
D014
強化ガラス t=5+A6+ 耐熱強化ガラス t=6.5
Y3
Y3
2 D215
2 D214
ミーティング 16.5m2
オフィス 10.5m2
ダイニング 20m2
1
1
D013
6350
6350
D013
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
+10.25
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
リビング 17m2
10175
10175
+7.00
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
手すり:スチール パイプ O＝20
床:バーチ合板 t=12
1
Y2
D011
床:バーチ合板 t=12
オフィス 10m2
1
Y2
D011
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
非常用進入口 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム貼り
キッチン 11m2
3826
オフィス 14m2
3826
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
強化ガラス フロストフィルム貼り
ホール 5m2
2 D216
Y1
Y1
3275
1650
3275
3275
1650
X2
Level 3 floor plan
110
3275
8200
8200
X1
X3
X4
X1
X2
Level 4 floor plan
X3
X4
1
1
1
1
D012
D014
D012
D014
Y3
Y3
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
2
手すり:スチール パイプ O＝20
D217
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
1
1
D013
D013
6350
6350
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
2 D218
2
非常用進入口 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム貼り
ラウンジ 19.5m2
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
1
Y2
D011
D220
10175
10175
+12.95
1
Y2
D011
+15.30
浴室 6m2
ベッドルーム 11m2
ベッドルーム 11m2
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
3826
3826
床:バーチ合板 t=12
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
非常用進入口 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム貼り
床:バーチ合板 t=12 床:モザイク タイル t=25
2 D221
Y1
Y1 2 D219
3275
1650
3275
3275
1650
8200
X2
X1
3275
8200
X4
X3
X2
X1
Level 5 floor plan
X4
X3
Level 6 floor plan
1
1
D012
D014
1
1
D012
D014
Y3
Y3
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
1 D013
6350
6350
1 D013
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
10175
10175
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
2 D218
1
Y2
D011
1
Y2
D011
手すり:スチール パイプ O＝20
2 D218
3826
3826
+17.55 ペントハウス 14.5m2
モルタル t=25 断熱材 t=100 鉄筋コンクリート t=350
床:バーチ合板 t=12
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
Y1
Y1
3275
1650
3275
3275
1650
Level 7 floor plan
X2
3275
8200
8200
X1
X3
X4
X1
X2
X3
X4
Roof plan
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
111
1
1
D011
D013
RFL=GL+2224
1 1.25
非常用進入口 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム貼り
W6
7FL=GL+1755
1
6FL=GL+1530
5FL=GL+1295
4FL=GL+1025
D105
W5
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
非常用進入口 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム貼り
非常用進入口 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム貼り
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
1 D103
W4
3FL=GL+700
1
W3
2FL=GL+380
D104
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
W1
2 D225
W2 1FL=GL+30 GL=+-0.00
East elevation
0
1
1
D012
D014
RFL=GL+2224
7FL=GL+1755 ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
6FL=GL+1530
5FL=GL+1295
1
1
D106
D102
4FL=GL+1025
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
3FL=GL+700
2FL=GL+380
1FL=GL+30 GL=+-0.00
South elevation
112
1
2
5m
1
1
D014
D012
2
RFL=GL+2224
D226
W16
W15 7FL=GL+1755
6FL=GL+1530
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
W14 W13
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
5FL=GL+1295
W12
1
1
D102
D105
4FL=GL+1025
W11
2 D227
W10 3FL=GL+700 ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
W9
2FL=GL+380 強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
W8 W7 1FL=GL+30 GL=+-0.00
North elevation
RFL=GL+2224
1
1
D011
D013
ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
1 1.25
7FL=GL+1755
1
6FL=GL+1530
D105
W22 ウレタン樹脂系 吹付塗膜防水 t=3 ノンスリップ対応 地下調整フカ シ t=10
5FL=GL+1295
強化ガラスt=12 飛散防止フィリム 貼り
W20
W21
4FL=GL+1025
1 D103
3FL=GL+700
1
W19
D104
2FL=GL+380
2 D228
W18 W17 1FL=GL+30 GL=+-0.00
West elevation
CHAPTER SIX
SCALE TEST
113
View from Odakyu Line
114
CREDITS
Book design François Blanciak Hans Park Project contributors Wan-Ling Ko Dick Olango Omoi Toyonaga Illustrations NASA: 103 Shibuya City Office: 104 All other illustrations © François Blanciak
