COMPETITION
Yokohama, Japan
THE FUTURE LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY
2016
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After World War II, the Japanese economy developed remarkably. During that period, the Japanese local government built housing complex buildings to attract workers and their families. Those houses were the ideal places to live for previous generations as they applied modern design within specious area with reasonable price.
However, as the style of the standard family has been changing, those houses face difficulty in attracting the current generation. In fact, the average age of residents is rising.
This competition aims to organise a community centre in the area of housing complex buildings for future generations to expand a new vision of living in those houses with other people.
We set the design concept as attracting young mothers. By organising events and meeting spaces, mothers would find advantages of raising up own children in the housing complex with other families helping each other.
We proposed to rebuild office and storage buildings and create a new entrance to the main open space from the direction of the nearest train station considering that they will be able to have various events around the community centre.
The entrance area is covered by timber-framed structure with the symbolic shape of a house, to softly divide the space. The house shape also implies that "everyone is family in the same house".
Visualisation by Konrad Limanówka