Clouds Over Osaka
The Nishinari ward in Osaka is home to a large population of day laborer though an influx of backpackers looking for cheap lodgings and engagement with the historic facades are slowly overtaking local housing as a result of gentrification.
To address this dichotomy, a secondary layer of the city is proposed to be a light and antiinvasive cloud that allows travelers to inhabit and experience the neighborhood without directly displacing locals.
The result, is a system which services public programs at its intersection to the city while providing private lodging that hides along the roofscape and behind local facades. A light mesh exterior offers an open experience while the programs withing jostle and meander along the shifting roofscapes, developing programmatically and formally depending on its context.
To address this dichotomy, a secondary layer of the city is proposed to be a light and antiinvasive cloud that allows travelers to inhabit and experience the neighborhood without directly displacing locals.
The result, is a system which services public programs at its intersection to the city while providing private lodging that hides along the roofscape and behind local facades. A light mesh exterior offers an open experience while the programs withing jostle and meander along the shifting roofscapes, developing programmatically and formally depending on its context.
Typology: Hostel/Mixed Use
Timeline: Summer 2020
Location: Osaka, Japan
Professor: Aleksander Mergold
Collaborators: Tony Gao & Aybuke Atlug
Timeline: Summer 2020
Location: Osaka, Japan
Professor: Aleksander Mergold
Collaborators: Tony Gao & Aybuke Atlug
