JR Shibuya Station Façade Renovation
JR渋谷駅改修計画
JR Shibuya Station Façade Renovation
JR渋谷駅改修計画
2003.07
Train Station (façade renovation)
Hachi-ko exit: 60.8 m2 South exit: 48.5m2
Shibuya is the district in Tokyo most popular with the younger generation. Here, one finds junior and high school students with colored hair and strange outfits roaming around, squatting on the street and even sleeping at all times of the day and night. This is a town of chaos and boisterous energy: the streets are filled with images and signboards, and the classical segmentation of architecture and advertisements has lost it’s meaning. Boundaries separating architecture from visual images, materials from non-materials, and reality from virtual reality have all but disappeared. Everything is mutually dissolved in liquid form.
A station building that serves as the center of such a district should also have the same liquidity and transparency. I wanted to make architecture disappear as much as possible. The material I chose for the façade, therefore, was glass. On this glass, I transcribed an image of clouds. I first shot clouds in Shibuya using a digital camera, and then printed them on the glass as ceramic prints. The actual clouds that are reflected on the glass overlie the printed “image” of clouds on the glass. The result is a state of ambiguity: one cannot at first glance tell which clouds are more real than the others.
In transcribing the images I initially tried to place a huge cloud over the entire façade. Ultimately I took five parts of a single cloud, shuffled them, and then scattered them randomly over the façade. I felt that this digital, discontinuous approach was more in tune with Shibuya’s culture.
Similarly, with my ceramic prints, I first wanted to make as accurate a reproduction as possible. I created a prototype using small dots. In the end, however, I enlarged the diameter of the dots to 12 mm. With this I was able to capture the sense of coolness characteristic of Shibuya.
I layered three sheets of glass and printed the images in white and gray on two planes leaving a 6 mm space between them. These 6 mm gaps create a type of a moré-like effect: when your perspective changes, so does the cloud’s shape and color. In terms of dimensions, we’re talking about two and a half. In other words, I had wanted to create a façade that was hung in mid-air between the second and the third dimensions; between the real and the virtual; and between materials and non-materials.
2003.07
駅舎 (ファサード改修)
ハチ公口: 60.8 m2 南口: 48.5m2
渋谷は建築、広告、映像が境界なく融合し、流れ続ける町である。
この地域の中心となるターミナルステーションに、流石的な流体性と透明性を与えようと試みた。不透明な外壁を取り払ってガラスに置換し、前面のハチ公広場と駅のプラットホームとを一つに接合した。ガラスには、現地でデジタルカメラを使って撮影した雲の映像をセラミックプリントを用いて転写し、実際の雲のリフレクションか、ガラスに転写された雲の映像かを、判別できないような曖昧な状態を作った。ガラスへのセラミックプリントは、白とグレーの2色のイメージを6mmのディスタンスをあけて2重にプリントし、一種の立体視の効果をねらった。自分の視点が変化すると、雲の形や色も微妙に変化する。二次元と三次元の間に宙吊りになっているファサードをつくることを目指した。それは現実と非現実、または物質と非物質の間の宙吊りでもある。