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Honorable Mention

Title:

Living with water to survive

Comcept:

There is a fishermen's village, Tai O, which is located in the western part of Lantao Island, HongKong. Here, you can find a unique concentration of housing structures set up on pillars in water. They can be described as combined houses on water. This community is full of charms, having unusual living spaces and connected decks which is extended to enlarge their available spaces. This village is also presenting you an original condition of HongKong, which is reminiscent of good old days to Asians, ourselves. However, in 2000, most of those houses were burnt down because of various urban problems and a big scale fire which occurred in the center of the town. Even nowadays, those damages are left unrepaired. The disater-hit people are facing difficulties such as economic problems or ambiguous property rights. They cannot return to their normal life yet. If you lose one culture, a process of "people's collaboration" is indispensable in order to create a new one. I do hope that a new brilliant story of people's lives will repeat itself here once again.

Coment:

The idea to set up temporary housing using scrap wood was very appealing. Although recognizable from an urban-development point of view, the possibility of actual application is fairly low. Rather than simply suggesting the module, proposing an idea that pursues a social system in which such temporary housing is created would be more effective.

Profile

Name of Applicant:

Ryu Kojima

Date of Birth:

1983/2/21

Sex:

Male

Nationality:

Japan

Residence:

Japan

Academic History:

Student at Ritsumeikan University, College of Science and Engineering, Urban Space Design Research Department

Occupation:

Student, Ritsumeikan University

Awards:

Architectural Institute of Japan, 2006 Designing Competition, Local branch prize The Second Pink Ribbon Festival, Poster division, Honerable Mention The First "Keikan Kaika(Landscape Flowerage)" Design Competition, Honerable

Exhibitions:

Submission to 2004 Ritsumeikan University, Narrow Housing Exhibition Submission to 2006 Kyoto Six University Graduation Designing Exhibition

Collaborator:

Kensaku Kikuchi

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