Cities continually tear away what constitute them. Neighbourhood changes by demolishing buildings, throwing away objects with aura of our memories. The 'Displacement' reclaim all the forgotten ones. Inherit them as a new building of the abandoned.
'There are values more than the object is priced of.'
1. City Recollage Industry
Scheme of ‘displacement’ refers to the idea of Arata Isozaki’s city demolition industry in which a company is set up to demolish things in Japan. Here, a company is set up in refute to the rising culture that people keep on abandonning whatever they have. The surrealistic removal of their evidence give rise to this industry who regenerates ‘found abandonned objects/buildings’. Workers hired would live and work on the artificial island, Harumi. the carry out ‘Displacement’, which is the moving of found to-be-demolished and abandonned building to the site for processing and regeneration.
2. Along Tokyo Bay
The framework gives a sense of ephemeral and emptiness, and when displacement start to take place it ‘fills up’ the framework with the reclaimed objects as it became more and more solid. The whole event is not only a revolt of the abandoned, it also gently evoke our nostalgia, which is how do we value things that are not ‘valuable’ but culturally important or important to us personally due to memories of us.
3. Arrival
The materials come in in an unexpected rate, you never know when ‘Displacement’ would take place. When materials are moved back to the site, the demolished buildings which will become the contributor to the framework are recorded into the archive which is for the recordation of demolished buildings or the buildings that the framework inheritted. The materials from ‘Displacement’ would either wait at the dockyard or transported into the factory for processing.
4. Assemblage
Boats and ships perform the salvation by moving the abandoned from their origin to Harumi in Tokyo Bay, an artificial island where the project took place. The displaced are then processed through the factory on-site, granting them a new aura relationship while inheriting their memories as well. The whole architecture is an empty framework sitting on the site. Through the architectural salvation, it will continually be infilled with the reclaimed objects and buildings in phases and in the end it attains saturation. It is an architecture that inherits buildings. Not hiding what we abandoned, but acknowledging their efforts to create our memories.
5. An Unexpected Rate
The ‘displacment’ encloses two open spaces which the one that includes the corner edge is a public space while the inner is working as a dock for ships to dock the materials and transport into the factory. This relates to the idea that it is unexpected to know when materials arrive so it happens randomly. And the inner dock would be abandonned later on when the framework become saturated and it turns into a public space as well.
6. Everywhere it is machine they say
Logics and concepts at different scales, at detailed level, joints are designed in ways that they are assembled together by different length and lamination showing they are originally not able to fit into the ‘job’. The whole framework is not a ‘whole’, it is fragmented as every parts are designed to be created at different stages or places.
7. Register to the Displacement
Housing are incorporated into the framework and as a living device to regulate the ‘Displacement’ it serves as a register that let people to dwells in. When people move in as residence the action that they bring in the ‘flatpack units’ by the hooked lift and assemble their house with structures recycled from construction sites and planes or walls from the ‘Displacement’ become an act of infilling of framework, which re-aura the materials that lost their identity and use and meaning. Now they become re-auraed through this action.
8. The Reclaimed Neighbourhood
Residents are registered in the ‘displacement’. They helped to regenerate the reclaimed units through living and giving them a new attachment.
9. Ephemeral
'There are values more than the object is priced of.'
The 'Displacement'
,or the Revolt of Abandoned Architecture
,or the Revolt of Abandoned Architecture
In this 21st century, the act of cities throwing away architectures and everything that contributed to their present scene is no longer strange to the eyes. everyday there are buildings being torn down, immeasurable amount of objects being abandoned and sent to landfill sites in an overwhelming rate. our neighborhood changed progressively, eventually it became a place we are no longer familiar with.
In Japan, the government created artificial islands within Tokyo Bay as a method to bury the evidence of earthquakes debris and also, indirectly reduce landfills. unwanted objects are then hidden beneath as reclaimed lands. their aura, existence and contribution to the city are obscured.
it is urgent that a revolt is needed to criticize on the erasing actions of human and cities without considering the true values of the removed.
The ‘Displacement’ is to evoke the nostalgic emotion of mankind, through architectural salvage to regenerate the abandoned and hence turnaround their fate to be forgotten. boats and ships perform the salvation by moving the abandoned from their origin to Harumi in Tokyo Bay, an artificial island where the project took place.
The salvaged are then processed through the factory on-site, granting them a new aura relationship while inheriting their memories as well. the whole architecture is an empty framework sitting on the site. through the architectural salvation, it will continually be infilled with the reclaimed objects and buildings in phases and in the end it attains saturation. it is an architecture that inherits buildings. not hiding what we abandoned, but acknowledging their efforts to create our memories.
