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This is a study group that aims to invent and discover new architecture with Erika Nakagawa.
We would thoroughly conduct the practice of considering the model as the most important tool.

I believe that architecture is something that has a relationship with both scales, larger and smaller than that of the building, and that it is something that continues uninterruptedly and continuously with the people who cross inside and outside the building. Even though architecture is always built within the lines of convenience of site boundaries, it is never complete on its own as a "three-dimensional object human experience”.
For me, architecture is the study of perceiving the world three-dimensionally, moving back and forth between various scales, and I believe that a continuous architecture that traverses everything will surely bring a richer experience.

There are two main things I would like to explore by reconsidering architecture as "a three-dimensional object for human experience.
One is how architecture can be continuous with the surrounding environment or urban space, which is on a larger scale than buildings. The other is how architecture can be continuous with the surroundings or the body, which is on a smaller scale than the building. The former is "an attempt to design and transform a unique sense of place as architecture," while the latter is "an attempt to recapture the world from the scale of one's surroundings”.
At first glance, it may seem like a perfectly natural attempt, but the truth is that there are very few architects in the world today who are simultaneously practicing both of these approaches. This is because, in the modern era, architecture has a history of being disconnected from place, of regarding human beings as anonymous groups rather than as concrete physical objects, and therefore methods of architectural exploration as mentioned above are unknown. In other words, the problematic consciousness underlying the practice of the Nakagawa Lab is the very question that contemporary architecture faces as it attempts to overcome modern architecture.

Rather than attempting to prove a hypothesis toward an obvious conclusion, the Nakagawa Lab aims to formulate a question that would open up the next era, which is still unknown, and to verify that hypothesis from multiple angles and across scales using a three-dimensional model, making course corrections as we go along. Through this path, we would work to invent and discover new architecture.

By returning to the premise that architecture is something inclusive and continuous with everything else, it is possible that our conception of architectural beauty and our attitude toward time may change. It is not, for example, the beauty that an individual architect assumes in advance, but the beauty that can only be achieved through the accumulation of time and the depth of various human interpretations.
Aiming for a physical realization of such beauty, the Nakagawa Lab also plans to conduct fieldwork on unique practices in regional cities in Japan and remote towns around the world, and to make them models, including the scale of the immediate surroundings, in order to recapture the larger environment.

I believe that architecture is something that has a relationship with both scales, larger and smaller than that of the building, and that it is something that continues uninterruptedly and continuously with the people who cross inside and outside the building. Even though architecture is always built within the lines of convenience of site boundaries, it is never complete on its own as a "three-dimensional object human experience”.
For me, architecture is the study of perceiving the world three-dimensionally, moving back and forth between various scales, and I believe that a continuous architecture that traverses everything will surely bring a richer experience.

There are two main things I would like to explore by reconsidering architecture as "a three-dimensional object for human experience.
One is how architecture can be continuous with the surrounding environment or urban space, which is on a larger scale than buildings. The other is how architecture can be continuous with the surroundings or the body, which is on a smaller scale than the building. The former is "an attempt to design and transform a unique sense of place as architecture," while the latter is "an attempt to recapture the world from the scale of one's surroundings”.
At first glance, it may seem like a perfectly natural attempt, but the truth is that there are very few architects in the world today who are simultaneously practicing both of these approaches. This is because, in the modern era, architecture has a history of being disconnected from place, of regarding human beings as anonymous groups rather than as concrete physical objects, and therefore methods of architectural exploration as mentioned above are unknown. In other words, the problematic consciousness underlying the practice of the Nakagawa Lab is the very question that contemporary architecture faces as it attempts to overcome modern architecture.

Rather than attempting to prove a hypothesis toward an obvious conclusion, the Nakagawa Lab aims to formulate a question that would open up the next era, which is still unknown, and to verify that hypothesis from multiple angles and across scales using a three-dimensional model, making course corrections as we go along. Through this path, we would work to invent and discover new architecture.

By returning to the premise that architecture is something inclusive and continuous with everything else, it is possible that our conception of architectural beauty and our attitude toward time may change. It is not, for example, the beauty that an individual architect assumes in advance, but the beauty that can only be achieved through the accumulation of time and the depth of various human interpretations.
Aiming for a physical realization of such beauty, the Nakagawa Lab also plans to conduct fieldwork on unique practices in regional cities in Japan and remote towns around the world, and to make them models, including the scale of the immediate surroundings, in order to recapture the larger environment.

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