Hakotsukuri is a new village planned in the void left from transporting a mountain of earth to create the island of Renzo Piano's Kansai Airport. Within the surreal landscape of unfinished streets, only a post-modern townhall and a distant neighbourhood of single family homes provided context for the competition programme for a community center. This proposal atomized the site into various seeds scattered across Hakotsukuri becoming parasites within future constructions. The autonomous pods were intended to be temples of the individual, an information infrastructure to pervert the prevailing notion of Japanese community sustained by submissive conformity and cultural homogeneity.

Competition Proposals for a Community Center in Hakotsukuri.
Studio lectures and workshops at the Osaka College of Technology, Japan. Exhibition at Takenaka Corporation Osaka.

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Proposal Hakotsukuri Community Center for the Individual

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