DESA1002 'Nine Quarter City' - <Jia Ying PENG>

Abstract

This project for the second semester is a greater emphasis on the architectural urban context compare to the first semester. A “generic city” of strict geometry has been fused with 9 actual cities. This project here is related to the Asakusa district in Tokyo, Japan, which is a place combined with both traditional Japanese culture and Modern Japanese culture. The building I designed for this project is called “Fashion Community, Asakusa”. The main function of the building is a department store, which is a fashion symbol of Tokyo in Asakusa. Compare to the traditional Japanese architecture surrounded it, this Fashion Community attracts people to come and enjoy a different public space in such a busy district, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. At first, I wanted to produce a Japanese Fans’ shaped building according to the Japanese culture, but after the process, I changed my design to a Fashion Community. Because in this area, my building is not located at the main Nakamise Dori, which means I need to design something to attract people to come in. Therefore, compare to the traditional Japanese cultures, I produced the Fashion style building. Additionally, behind the building, there is a traditional Japanese Garden. It is basically a Bamboo garden, but it can be changed by matching the fashion show stages. I kept developing the design by adding a huge screen on the heavy wall next to the garden; in this case, people can sit in the Japanese garden or from the streets to watch the fashion exhibition of a live fashion show. I changed the design and improved the drawings and models of this project, in order to produce a better combination of traditional Japanese garden and fashion boutiques. The fashion boutiques around the building, therefore, are the main parts of the building. In terms to the materials, glass and steels would be used to build it.