City Study

City Study
– Nature and humans –

Just as every city has its own history, it has its own shape. As people gather, start to live, and expand the scope of their activities, towns gradually change their appearance.

While for the “hecomi studies” my height determines the way I work, in my city studies the viewpoint is set far up high in the sky. When I look at the city from a bird’s eye view, I see the breadth of human activities, which can be said to have formed a hecomi in the middle of nature. The work documents the constant struggle between green (nature) and the city, but at times also organic forms of kindness to each other as well as the dynamism of the rivers running through the city, the shapes that reflect the geography – history of the city itself.

Japanese Text ↓

街のかたちから考える– 自然と人間 –

　すべての街に独自の歴史があるように、そこには独自の形があります。人が集まり、住みはじめ、その活動範囲を拡げていく過程で、街は徐々にその姿を変えていきます。
　身長の高さで形を捉えていた凹みスタディに続いて、シティスタディでは視点をはるか上空に設定します。都市を俯瞰して見ると、そこには自然の中にできた「凹み」ともいえる、人間の豊かな営みの形が息づいていました。緑（自然）と市街地のせめぎあう、しかし時には互いへのやさしさを含んだ有機的な形、街をつらぬく河川のダイナミズム、その街の地理や歴史を反映した形などを作品に取り入れています。