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Shelter; International Architectural Design Competition for Students 2018 // Tokyo, Japan
To design something for those people we had to experience what they did and so then we could just feel like them, could find their needs.
After some research we did, we could feel that losing your own home, your dear ones, and even watching everything collapsing in front of your eyes feels so painful and shocking, somehow a feeling of emptiness and losing the will to live.
To show those people that their lives are gifts from God, we presented 3 words that came deeply from their feeling; “calmness, sympathy, and Hope”
For showing them those words we had to first construe the meaning of those words. in our idea hope is the process and what we see in the end is just the result of hope just like a grown plant through a stone.
By walking through the corridors, by seeing those colorful lights coming through and the nature besides, so the client can feel the hope in the right ways and the colors give them the feeling like “SOMEONE CARES”.
Feeling the warmth of the woods, seeing the people from the void of the first floor and the nature, and even the orange color itself and the colorful glasses; give them the meaning that their life is a gift from the god.
The ordering of the rooms in a U form that gathered together enhances the connection between the clients and the feeling of sympathy.
The use of solar panels saves energy and obtains each room’s energy; suitable for the days of disaster and the lack of electricity.
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