ATELIER BOW-WOW. Miyashita Park. みやしたこうえん

We completed the group of three Japanese, which we mentioned in connection with last Thursday's announcement about the new RIBA International Fellowships, which was produced in London. In the list were P. Mangado and C. Ferrater. The new generation of Japanese architects have focused the attention of all eyes and moved the center of the lens from Europe to the Far East. To mark the RIBA appointments today, Atelier Bow-Wow.

Made in Tokyo: Guide Book. © Atelier Bow-Wow.

Best known for its interventions in small houses and places impossible to Tokyo and the publication of "Made in Tokyo: Guide Book", we present the project to reform this area of Tokyo, Miyashita Park, which has not been without controversy . According to his political position, before reform this was an area that served as a refuge for the outcasts of society or a run down area, a breeding ground for future problems.

The project, funded by Nike and designed by Atelier Bow-Wow, built-in mega-district of Shibuya, try creating a new space for the local community with all kinds of equipment, areas of skating, climbing walls, play areas, gardening. Efforts have been made to preserve some of the spirit of its previous occupants before reusing materials in new construction. The proposed project is a new space clean, neat, too clean ... Nice project, however, maybe is perhaps more could have integrated the different layers of the place.

Miyashita Park
Architects: Atelier Bow-Wow + Tokyo Institute of Technology Tsukamoto Lab.
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Site area: 14000sqm
Photo: Atelier Bow-Wow

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ATELIER BOW-WOW

Atelier Bow-Wow was established in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in Tokyo. Best known for its projects in dense urban environments, the firm has developed its practice based on a profound study of existing cultural, economic, and environmental conditions—a study that led it to propose the term “pet architecture” for the multitude of odd, and functional little buildings wedged into tiny sites around Tokyo. Atelier Bow-Wow has also acquired an enthusiastic following through its Micro Public Space projects, as well as innovative projects for exhibitions such as the 2010 Venice Biennale (as an official representative of Japan) and the São Paulo Bienal, and at venues such as the Hayward Gallery in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, The Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Japan Society in New York, and the OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich in Linz, Austria.

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
1965         Born in Kanagawa, Japan
1987         Graduate from Tokyo Institute of Technology
1987-88    Guest Student of L'ecole d'architecture, Paris, Bellville (U.P.8)
1994         Graduate from Post-graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr.Eng.
2000-        Associate Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2003, 2007       Visiting Faculty of Harvard GSD
2007, 2008       Visiting Associate Professor of UCLA

Momoyo Kaijima
1969         Born in Tokyo, Japan
1991         Graduate from Japan Women's University
1994         Graduate from Graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology, M.Eng.
1996-97    Guest student of E.T.H
1999         Graduate from Post-graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2000-        Assistant professor of University of Tsukuba
2003         Visiting Faculty of Harvard GSD
2005-07      ETHZ Guest Professor
2009-         Associate professor of University of Tsukuba