Landscape City
The Landscape city is a series of illustration, the
new form of city structure constructed on the landscape of city of Atsugi, Japan
which is counterpointing idea attempting to exclude the constitution of modern
development toward the nature and transcending attitude of 1960’s utopian
architectural model by the idea of developing a city which is behaving within a
geographical entity of given nature.
The tactic for the Landscape City is based on
perception toward the human artifact and nature. Like a photo of Galway Bay by
Tomas Emerson, when the human behavior imprinted on to the nature, due to the Cartesian
geometry marked on the surface, the figure contrast itself from the natural
form, but at the same time because of the material, it is recognizable as the
same entity of environment in a whole picture. This perception have a
possibility to be applied in a different scale like “Double Negative” by Michael
Heizer, a giant long line of trench excavated on the vast area in desert. Then
it even gives a phenomenological value corresponding to the surrounding nature.
The bunker is also an applicable idea for landscape city. Because of its
original function, the bunker is camouflaging into ecological shape or
sometimes it looks like the landscape morphing into the building. So the bunker
is in the state of captured process that the building is evolving into nature and
vice versa. And as the time goes by, these canonical forms of building
gradually have a quality that is beginning to be perceived as a part of surrounding
landscape.
The strategies for the landscape city are, therefore,
constituted with as followings; stratum, leveling, slicing, chasm, boring, embedding,
inserting, wrapping, and covering. These strategies are for synthesizing the
urban form and the nature in other to reissue the meaning of “Genre de vie” in
a traditional manner coinciding with contemporary architecture and urbanism.
