Di - Generic Cities: Tokyo

Challenge: Breaking generic cities

Tokyo, Japan

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners Discussion Entries (7)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Kutlu and 2 others

SPHERE

The sphere is like the sacred and divine form of space. It is the final stage in the transformation of energy that follows a divine purpose. The sphere is the most efficient form to store and spread the energy. All planets and stars follow the same, as if they have a shared code of consciousness. This transformation is a manifestation of a common destiny.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Yoshie

Spiritual Journey to Oneness

The building is a sacred place for people of all faiths, religion or background to connect with the Divine and their higher self (the real self, awakened aspects of oneself, assessing deeper truths and knowledge). It is designed beyond experience with a series of spaces that allows visitors to experience the process of spirituality.

Editor's Choice

2 Entries

Ahd

Transcendence

Transcendence.. Is an attempt to capture the city from an alternative perspective, or a set of perspectives. following the narrative of three characters, moving from the perception of the city, to the transformative experience of the building reaching for the final conclusion of each of the three characters in their search for transcendence.

Boon and 3 others

Ctrl+Scroll

The project challenges the concepts of generic and iconic but imagining one in the realm of the other. It understands how external factors such as culture, nature, etc. helps in creating iconic architecture out generic forms. We delve into the process of 'Japanization' here, and position it where its inherent definition changes in the face of immigration.

Shortlisted

3 Entries

Simeon

Tokyo Meta Tower

Hyper-dense, always moving, always changing- it is impossible to grasp Tokyo in its entirety. This project seeks to investigate the very nature of Tokyo, to understand its evolution and untangle its urban fabric.

Austin

MATRIX 007

MATRIX 007 defines shifts back to faith in a world of uniformity. In this society of uniformity each user is still a unique entity which prescribes to an individual faith. Matrix 007 redefines the center of faith and activity.

Manivannan and ARUN

SO WHAT?...IF SO!...

The design ideology didn't intend to break generic but inturn provides an initiative to the process where the realization of people can come up with more innovative ideas about breaking generic or creating hybrids of culture. This also acts as a testing ground to express various ideologies of architects, artists, designers, etc... and an efficient canvas.