ASIAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT SUMMER WORKSHOP

The2 nd ASIAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

SUMMER WORKSHOP OSAKA(SABAE & MIHARA)

Document of the 2nd Asian Architectural Student Summer Workshop Osaka ( Sabae & Mihara )

Architectural Design Association of Nippon

About the Asian Architecture Student Summer Workshop

left / a leaflet calling for participants

previous top / Sabae Unit,

previous bottom / Mihara Unit

Document ofthe 2nd Asian Architecture Student Summer Workshop Osaka (Sabae and Mihara)

Young future architects studying at different universit ies around Asia came to stay in

Japan, interact with people in local cit ies , and work through the attract ions and problems

of the regions.

This is a document of the 2nd Asian Architectural Student Summer Workshop held in

paral lel in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, and in Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture.

Document of the 2nd Asian Architecture Student Summer Workshop Osaka (Sabae & Mihara)

Architectural Design Associat ion of Nippon (ADAN) has a plan to establish in Osaka a school cal led ‘Architects Academy Asia ’ (3A) , the aim of which is to produce prominent next-generat ion Asian architects and to spread the network of archi-tects and Japanese advanced technologies throughout Asia . As part of this plan, the ‘Asian Architecture Students Summer Workshop’ was conceived. The challenge was to explore architecture that opens up new possibi l i t ies of space while rooted in local ity, through exchanges with internat ional part icipants , craftspeople, and the local community. The workshop was led by Japanese leading architects and cutt ing-edge young architects .

The mission of the workshop was, together with architecture students from Asian countries undergoing a process of rapid urbanizat ion, to share the problems and possibi l i t ies of ‘rural areas’ behind the urbanizat ion and put thinking into prac-t ice. Below are the key points (somewhat revised from the first workshop) .

1. Hyper-diversityThe number of part icipat ing countries is very large, more than 15 countries throughout much of Asia . Almost al l the members of each unit or team are of different nat ionalit ies or from differ-ent l inguist ic areas. Al l the part ici -pants are from non-English speaking countries .2. Short-term intensiveEverything from team building to design (fieldwork) and making is done in a short-term intensive period of 7 to 10 days. 3. Away from homeJapan is a foreign country for the part icipants from abroad. Also, the workshop is held in a local city or

rural area away from urban areas they are famil iar with. They are away in a double sense.4. CollaborationWe place emphasis on teamwork. The division of roles and compet it ion among the members, respect and understanding towards others, and dialogue and interact ion with local people -‒ al l of these are reflected in the project output . Also, through the ent ire l i festyle including staying with host famil ies or staying together under one roof , part icipants understand others and relat ivize themselves.5. Design and makingEmphasizing dialogue with aspects of the local ity such as people, landscape

and materials , part icipants do what can only be done in the place. Ult imately they make not only designs and presentat ions but ful l -scale places that they can physical ly experience and share without language.6. Alternative platformThis workshop is not a part of universi-ty curriculum. It is a place of learning where act ivit ies are done, by taking tr ips into the field, in an actual place, not in a university studio. Students come to seek something with their own wil l .

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A. Taiwan［1］Tzu-Chieh Lin "JAY"Shih Chien University

［2］Po-Yu ChienMing Chuan University

B. China［3］Liuxi Wei "LUCY"Southeast University

［4］Xiaoyu SongNortheast University

C. South Korea［5］Yeong Jun KimHongik University

D. Mongolia［6］Maral Khurelbaatar［7］Munkhjin EnkhtaivanMongolian University of Science and Technology

E. India［8］Sumeet Joshi［9］Tejal ShrotriyaPVP College of Architecture, Pune

F. Myanmar［10］Phyu Sin ThetMandalay Technological University

G. Thailand［11］Nat Wongwaipanich［12］Pranitta Sriwutticharn "MIN"Thammasat University

H. Cambodia［13］Socheata Chum "CHEATA"Royal University of Fine Arts

［14］Kokouy PhouWestern University

I. Singapore［15］Yuqi LiewNational University of Singapore

J. Indonesia［16］Vebriyanti Valentine "FEI"［17］Hani Ramadhani W.University of Indonesia

［18］Julius Saptian GunawanUniversity of Pelita Harapan

K. Bangladesh［19］Maherul Kader PrinceBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

［20］Ishika AlimBrac University

L. Laos［21］Sitthiphon Vongphachan "JOE"［22］Sanguansouk Vongdeuane "YAI"National University of Laos

M. Malaysia［23］Mohd Ridwan Haim Bin Suhaime "DWAN" ［24］Muhammad Naquiddin Bin Johari "NAQUI"University Technology of Mara

N. Hong Kong［25］Ting Hing Vong "WOODY"Chinese University of Hong Kong

O. Vietnam［26］Khanh CaoHa Noi Architecture University

P. Japan［27］Jingyan Wang［28］Weimeng LiKobe University

［29］Hikaru Sugii［30］Kotono Azuma［31］Sayaka Ohno［32］Shohei Noda［33］Kenya Okabe［34］Yuichiro Sugiura［35］Chikaho Yanagita "CHIKA" 　　　　　 Kindai University

Participating students

Sabae City●

●Mihara City

●Osaka City

Participating universities from abroad

We invited two schools from each of last year's participating countries, and other countries that did not participate last year, such as Malaysia, Laos, Bangladesh and Hong Kong. Finally we had 35 students from 22 schools in 16 countries, which is more than last year.

Participation requirement

We invited one or two students from each school. The selection method was left up to each school, if there are too many applicants. Although we did not set a minimum requirement for skills and grades, the majority of the participants were in the 3rd or 4th grade. The partici-pation fee is 300 US dollars. The round-trip airfare from each country to Kansai International Airport is paid by participants.

In addition to Sabae City of Fukui Prefecture, last year's venue, we held a workshop in parallel in Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture. We sorted the 35 participating students into two 'units': 'Sabae = village' (17 students) and 'Mihara = remote island' (18 students), taking into account their preferences and making sure that there was no overlap in nationality.

2 venues (units) in parallel


Sagishima Island, Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture

Sagishima Island

Sukunejima IslandKosagijima Island

Mihara Port

Sagi Port

Sagiura Elementary School

Sagi Seminar Centerof Mihara City

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1_ Onoura beach2_ Wariishi jizo3_ Sagiura Port4_ Orange farm5_ Peripheral road and a tram6_ Orange farm7_ Tree onion farm8_ Mukoda village9_ Sagiura village10_ Preliminary survey (Morita and Horiguchi)11_ Kosagijima Island12_ Kosagijima Island and shipbuilding

13_ Sukenejima Island14_ Poster of ‘The Naked Island’

Mihara City in Hiroshima Prefecture, together with Fukuyama City and Onomichi City, belongs to “Bingo” and forms a cultural area different from that of Hiroshima City. Sagishima Island is called “the nearest remote island to a Shinkansen station” as it is located 25 minutes by ferry from Mihara Port near Mihara Station. In Sagishima Island, there are three villages: “Sagiura” at the north end near Mihara City, “Sunokami” overlooking Oshima, and “Mukoda” at the south end. The former two used to belong to “Bingo Province” and the latter to “Aki Province”.

Currently the population of the entire Sagishima Island is about 700. The entire length of the island is about 12 kilometers. In all parts of the island, there has been a belief since ancient times that sea creatures should not be killed. Therefore the island has no fishing villages. The main industry is agriculture that utilizes rich spring water, which is rare for islands, and especially the flat land on the east part of the island is dotted with tree onion farm houses. Sweet potato cultivation has also been thriving since the war, which was filmed in Kaneto Shindo's movie 'The Naked Island', the subject of which is a family who used to live in Sukunejima Island, a deserted island off the coast of Sagishima Island.

In the center of Sagishima Island, there is a 268 meter high mountain called Mt. Taihei, which is famous for beautiful cherry blossoms in spring. Sandy beaches on the north and west coasts of the island are used for sea bathing, especially “beach therapy” in recent years. Also, a triathlon event using the peripheral road and the sea is held every summer and is now well-established as a representative event of the island. Spread on the hillside of the island are groves of citrus fruits such as orange and lemon, changing the atmosphere of the island with their colors and smells in the fruit season.


“Pod Architecture” across Asia (pre-workshop assignment)

Theme: Hunting “Pod Architecture” in Sagishima Island

Unit master: Kazuya Morita / Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio

A house of Tamang People/Nepal

Making of a Ger/Mongolia"Mirrored Sight" by Lin Hao/China

Yuka (River Floor) in Kifune, Kyoto/Japan

"Shukunegi" a house built by ship-builders in Sadogashima Island/Japan

Chozuya (Washing Gate) in Shimogamo Shrine, Kyoto/japanm

Tai-An (Tea House) in Kyoto, Japan

A house and a storage of Khare Village/Nepal

Diaojiaolou in Fenghuang Ancient Town/China

A fl oating school/Bangladesh

Terra Tree House/Malaysia

A rice paddy hut in Chiang Mai/Thailand

"Haath Gaadi" a mobile market table/India

A small temple/India

Hill Tribe House/Laos

Small dwelling units/Hong Kong Illigal rooftop dwellings/Hong Kong

"Lao Dong Xuan" a fl oating tea house in Luodong, Yilan/Taiwan

A street shoes shop in Hanoi/Vietnam

Indigineous Houses/Taiwan

Geladak Lipat by Yenny Gunawan/Indonesia

"Bale Bale", a portable chatting platform under the tree in Makassar/Indonesia

A "Girl House"/Cambodia

"The Pod" a capsule hotel/SingaporeSmall workspaces/FARM pte ltd./Singapore

A street barber in Ho Chi Minh City/Vietnam

Architecture deeply reflects the weather and the cultural climate in which it is located. In this workshop held on a small island in Seto Inland Sea, we “hunt” architectures as clues to gain greater understanding of the island and make a documentation and an information map of them. Especially what we call “Pod Architecture” - a space larger than furniture and smaller than architecture - often reflects local people's lives. By hunting and documenting such nameless architectures, we aim to share an opportu-nity to think about the future of this island.

Prior to the workshop, participating students collected examples of “Pod Architec-ture” existing in their own countries or regions, as far west as India, as far east as Japan, as far north as Mongolia, and as far south as Indonesia. A new map reflecting the diverse climates, cultures, religions, and geographies of Asia can be illustrated by a variety of examples, such as a stilt house in the wetland, a movable building, a building incorporated into a ship, (illegal?) extensions to street and rooftop, a struc-ture on the border between the usual and the unusual, and soft natural materials woven like a basket.

29-AugTue

Departure

6:00 6:00

7:00 7:00

8:00 Checkout Kosagijima Fieldwork Fieldwork Fieldwork Presentation preparation 8:25Sagiura Port 8:007:30Romance Kanko Bus 8:50Mihara Port

9:00 Returning rental cars, loading 9:009:30Departure by bus

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11:00 Ferry terminal, etc. 11:00

12:00 12:15Uno Port ※290yen 12:0012:35Miyanoura Port 12:45Miyanoura Port

13:00 13:05Uno Port Fieldwork Group work Group work Group work Group work 13:00

14:00 Arrival in Mihara 14:0014:30Shin-Osaka youth Hostel

15:00 15:0015:30　Fukoku Seimei Building

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17:00 Checkin Bath Bath Bath Bath Bath 17:00※510yen

18:00 18:05Sagiura Port 18:00

19:00 Naoshima Bath 19:00

20:00 Checkin Group work Group work Group work Presentation preparation 20:00

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備考備考

Lunch (convenient store) Lunch＠Elementary School (Onigiri)

Lunch＠Seminar Center

Lunch

＠Indian restaurant Lotus

Breakfast＠Youth Hostel

Osaka water cruise9:30@Universal City Port


Breakfast Breakfast＠Seminar Center Breakfast＠Seminar Center Breakfast＠Seminar Center Breakfast＠Seminar Center

Lunch (convenient store)




Sun Mon Tue

9:30Visit to Sagiura ElementarySchool

MonMove

Fri SatWork / Final Review

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Breakfast＠Seminar CenterBreakfast＠Seminar Center


Lunch＠Service area

佐木島ユニット：スケジュール19-Aug 20-Aug 21-Aug 22-Aug 23-Aug 24-Aug 25-Aug 26-Aug 27-Aug 28-Aug18-Aug

FriArrivalOsaka Osaka Osaka

Wed ThuOsaka Tour Move Move Work Work Work Work Work

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Osaka water cruise

Dinner＠Youth Hostel

Dinner＠Shin-Osaka Youth Hostel（meeting, schedule）

Kansai Int'l AirportPick up : Horiguchi, Sugiii

BBQ

Joint review＆ceremony16:00 - 18:00＠Kyoto University of Art&DesignUmeda CampusGuests：Sei Takeyama, Shuhei Endo, Isamu Nakamura,Yusuke Koshima, Shigeki Maeda

Farewell party19:30 - 21:30＠Campagne

Final review14:00 - 16:00＠Sagiura Elementary SchoolGuest : Sei Takeyama

Party （18:00 - 20:00）＠

Dinner＠Seminar Center Dinner＠Seminar Center Dinner＠Seminar Center

Dinner (Sagitei)

Dinner＠Miyanda

Dinner＠Seminar CenterDinner＠Seminar Center

16:30Courtesy visit to Mayor

Presentation preparation

Orientation＆Kick off presentation＠Seminar Center

Movie screening ‘The Naked Island’

Guest lecture : Keisuke MaedaGuest lecture : Shuhei Endo

Lecture : Kazuya Morita

Chichu Art Museum

Art House Project

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Remote island and contemporary architecture

House in Nipponbashi Welcomed by volunteers

Middle of nowhere

Naoshima Pavilion Dinner at Sagitei

Sagi Seminar Center

Art House Project Lecture by Shuhei Endo

Lecture by Keisuke Maeda

Miyanoura Ferry Terminal To Kosagijima

Gallery in Kosagijima

Visit to Mihara City Hall Watermelon splitting

Watermelon splitting

From Mihara to Sagishima Pickup truck

BBQ on the last night

In the 12-day program from 18 to 29 August, the Mihara Unit stayed on Sagi Island for 8 nights and 9 days, from 20 to 28 August. Because the annual triathlon event took place on 20th August and the entry to Sagishima Island was restricted, we spent two days, 19th and 20th August, touring Naoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture. We thought it would be effective to visit Naoshima Island, which achieved regional development through art and is visited by a large number of domestic and international tourists, to gain an understanding of the reality of Japanese remote islands and seeing Sagishima Island from a relative point of view. On Naoshima Island, we visited several “Art House Project” sites and works by some leading Japanese, such as Tadao Ando and SANAA.

On 21st August, we landed on Sagishima Island after making a courtesy visit to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Mihara City at the city hall. The workshop base is Sagi Seminar Center of Mihara City. Various programs other than the workshop activities were held during the stay: lectures by Shuhei Endo, Professor at Kobe University, and by Keisuke Maeda, a Fukuyama City-based architect who is taking an active part in the international architecture scene, a visit to Kosagijima Island whose population is only 9, and a BBQ party hosted by Takeuchi Construction Inc., a leading construction company in Mihara City.

17:40Mihara Port

Seminar Center

Breakfast＠Seminar Center

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Express bus FerryVillage in Naoshima Contemporary architecture Oyaji-no-umiNaoshima Miyanda


11 pupils / 18 Asian architecture students

Three elementary schools that once existed in each village were merged into Sagiura Elementary School. The number of pupils is 11. Its characteristics are a careful educa-tion in an intimate setting and a focus on English teaching. Although this workshop places importance on interaction with local people, the base of the Mihara Unit is a little distant from villages. Therefore, coming into contact with the pupils was a valuable experience in terms of interaction with residents of the island. After a welcoming ceremony in the classroom, we went on a tour around the island by school bus, guided by pupils in English. Pupils, one after another, gave explanations of each spot at which we stopped. In the afternoon, students surrounded a huge model of Sagishima Island made by Horiguchi Laboratory of Kindai University, looking for the spots they visited in the bus tour. It was an opportunity for the Asian students to get an overview of Sagishima Island and to glimpse the actual situation of declining birthrate in Japan.We promised the pupils that we would show them what the Asian architecture students found attractive in Sagishima Island in the final review a week later.


Landscape collecting, not insect collecting

The task given by the studio master, Mr. Morita, was to “collect” strange but subtly charming small buildings and landscapes. 6 teams comprising 3 members each headed in different directions by rental bike, with maps, smartphones, cameras, sketchbooks, pens, and measuring tapes. Students get off thier bikes, go deep into villages and mountain roads, take pictures of landscapes, small buildings, objects, details, shadows, or whatever they find interesting. After returning to the seminar center, students print out the pictures, spread them on the table, share them among the teams, name them and classify them. After narrowing down the “targets” through this process, students move around the island again and do the shooting.The question is, what are the landscapes unique to Sagishima Island? Instead of deciding in advance the objects and methods of which to take pictures, students try to let a certain kind of structure gradually emerge from an aggregate of landscape elements collected through their different viewpoints and sensibilities. Eventually “Books of Hunting” were compiled by each of the 6 teams. Each book has chapters themed around “targets” and the blank space of each picture has the name of the landscape or object, photographer's name, shooting location, date, and time, all written by hand. The pictures are all in black and white.

Drawing closer to the landscape and reconstructing “architectural eyes and hands”

In parallel with shooting pictures which are compiled into “Books of Hunting”, students make drawings of selected objects, which evoke “architecture specimens”. The challenge was how to genuinely face the object, how to suppress Modernist dogma about horizontality and verticality, geometry, and notation, and how to capture the changes of color or deterioration caused by aging and weathering. It was also an exercise to discover new geometries tied to materials and the methods of drawing them, and there-by to reconstruct the means of observing and describing the world.

“Another Sagishima Island” emerging in Sagiura Elementary School

Unit master: Kazuya Morita / Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio

All the pages, a total of 1,300 pictures compiled in 'Books of Hunting' are laid out on

the entire floor of Sagiura Elementary School's gymnasium. At the end of the floor

filled with pictures sits a huge model of Sagishima Island on which locations of shot

and drawn small buildings are plotted with pins. On the walls are hand-drawn archi-

tectural drawings each student made over time.

At the final review, post-it notes are distributed to more than 50 visitors, including

the elementary school pupils who guided the tour on the first day, local residents,

and guests from outside the island, all of whom vote for the pictures they like. Adults

sometimes stop to look carefully at pictures on the floor and talk to others. Children

run through the small gaps between pictures, trying to avoid stepping on them. Their

impressions were like: “The window of my house is in the picture!”, “Wow, this is my

favorite place!”, “The familiar landscape look different”, and so on. Albeit temporarily,

it can be said that “another Sagishima Island” emerged as a “place”.

In this workshop in Mihara, under the theme of “Pod Architecture Hunting in Sagishima Island”, students took pictures of any

space they found attractive on the island, printed them all out, divided them into several categories, and exhibited them in the

gymnasium of an elementary school. Besides, students measured and made drawings of some of the buildings, and made “A Small

Architectural Guidebook to Sagishima Island”. I believe that the experience of deeply exploring the field and architecturally docu-

menting its identities gave the students the opportunity of not only informing the local residents of the attractiveness of the island

seen from outside but also finding the attractiveness of their home countries.

Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture

Old house

Kawada

Sabae Station

Urushi-no-sato KaikanSabae City Hall

Yutaka District

Old house

The workshop in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, was held for the second consecutive year. Since last year, Sabae City has been working on a survey of vacant houses in the city and the promotion of their use with the cooperation of Architectural Design Association of Nippon. In such circumstances, a woman, who was going to start a cafe in a 100-year-old house in Yutaka District, with the help of a subsidy from Sabae City, offered to incorporate the renovation of the garage of the house, which was to be used as a half-outdoor kids space, into the workshop project. A project in which Asian students design and build a new hub of the community, a place which can attract tourists, was launched.

Students stayed in Kawada, a village of craftspeople manufacturing Echizen lacquerwares, as they did the previous year. Students were divided into several groups and stayed with host families who voluntarily offered rooms. It was an experience of staying in a village full of manufacturing traditions and homey warmness.


Theme: Filtering Architecture

Unit master: Kentaro Takeguchi / Alphaville Architects

“Architectural filters” across Asia (pre-workshop assignment)

China Academy of Folk Arts Museum by Kengo Kuma/China

Interior of Ger/Mongolia

A window detail/NepalLiyuan Bookstore in Huairou/China


Leaking Window in Suzhou Traditional Garden/China

Window panel detail of Hanok/South Korea

Tree shadow on shoji-screen/Japan

A circle window and shoji-screen/Japan

Sunny Side Hill Shop by Kengo Kuma/Japan

Fugitive Structure by Vo Trong Nghia Architects/Vietnam


School of Alpha Omega by RAW Architecture in Banten/Indonesia


Brick Jali of Bait urRoufMosque Dhaka by Marina TabassumArchitects/Bangladesh

Mungal Jali Pattern in Taj Mahal/India

Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai/India

Temporary dormitory made with recycled timbers in Bankok by AGORA Architects/Thailand

Bamboo mesh of Thazin Highschool/Myanmar

Steel Cage attached to balcony/Taiwan

St. Mary Church in Pluit-Jakarta by DCM Architect/Indonesia

Wood panel carving of Teratak Sri Mawat/Malaysia

There exists a variety of filters in openings between architecture and the environment. In countries where sunlight is intense, sunshades are attached to architectural openings. For instance, townhouses in Kyoto have lattices as filters which have a range of functions such as security, privacy, aesthetics and the layering of space in addition to shading.

In this workshop in Sabae City, students are asked to design and construct lattices which also act as mosquito screens in an opening of an actual Japanese house.

The samples participating students collected from their own regions in advance of the workshop reflect the diversity in climate, vegetation, population density, and so on across Asia. The climate ranges from the humid subtropical region including Japan and part of China, the humid continental region including Northeast China and Korean Peninsula, the tropical monsoon region including a large part of Southeast Asia (Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, India), the tropical rainforest region including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the desert region (Mongolia), to the alpine region (Nepal). Also, a wide variety of architectural materi-als are used: organic materials such as wood, bamboo and reed, inorganic materials such as stone, earth and brick, leather, and chemical fibers. All of these are organized in a variety of ways with consideration for filtering or blocking of light, wind and humidity, ways of construction, and mobility.

12 days stay in Japan / 7 days camp in Sabae

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Pick-up Pick-up Pick-up 8:00

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Departure

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16:00 bus, truck 16:00

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18:00 Arrival in Osaka 18:00

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23:00 23:00

Lunch＠Yutaka Community Center



Work＠Old house in Kaminoda






Final Review14:00 - 16:00＠City HallGuest : Sei Takeyama,Shuhei Endo, Satoru Umehara,Tohru Horiguchi

Homestay

Lunch＠Wanwan

Lunch＠Wanwan



Midterm Review＠City HallGuest : Eisuke Mitsuda

Guest lecture: Eisuke Mitsuda

Party＠Dining hall of the City HallBath (La Pose Kawada)Dinner

＠host familyDinner＠host family

Dinner＠host family

After-party@Maruyama residenceDinner & Lecture

＠Maruyama residenceGuest lecture : Asako Yamamoto

Lunch＠MITHILA

Fukui tour・Eiheiji Temple

Osaka tour・Umeda Sky Building

FreeDesign work＠Urushi-no-sato

Design work＠Urushi-no-sato

Lunch＠Dining hall of the City Hall

Lunch＠Eiheiji（Buddhist cuisine）

Lunch＠Umeda

Fukui tour・Echizen Washi (Living National Treasure)

Design work＠Urushi-no-sato

Arrival

Breakfast＠host family


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OrientationKick off presentation

Welcome dinner＠Dining hall of the City HallMeeting with host families

Site visit＠Old house in Kaminoda

Kyoto tour TIMES Gion Sannenzaka

Lunch＠Okabeya

The Sabae Unit left Osaka earlier than the Mihara Unit and arrived at Sabae by way of Kyoto the day after their arrival to Japan. In Kyoto, students visited historical areas such as Gion and Sannenzaka in order to see examples of filters and interventions in traditional houses. This year's workshop incorporated homestays in different homes. Divided into several groups, students basically stayed in Kawada village but in the middle of the workshop they had a chance to stay in volunteer people's houses in

different parts of Sabae City. Staying in different locations entails difficulties in terms of time management and team building, but participating students could feel Sabae City as a more intimate place through the interaction with warm host families. Further-more, students had a chance to contact the timeless culture imbued with the spirit of Fukui by visiting the factory of a Living National Treasure of Echizen Washi paper and having Buddhist cuisine at Eiheiji Temple on the last day.

Sabae Unit : Schedule

29-Aug19-Aug 20-Aug 21-Aug 22-Aug 23-Aug 24-Aug 25-Aug 26-Aug 27-Aug 28-Aug18-Aug

TueSun Mon Tue MonFri Sat SunFri Wed ThuSat

Kyoto Tour / Move to Sabae Presentation / Design Design Mid-term review / Work Work Work Work / Final Review Fukui Tour / Move Osaka Tour Osaka Tour / Joint Review DepartureOsaka Sabae Sabae Sabae Sabae Sabae Sabae Sabae Osaka Osaka Osaka

Kansai Int'l AirportPick up : Horiguchi, Sugiii

Dinner＠Shin-Osaka Youth Hostel（meeting, schedule）


Move (Kyoto - Sabae)Thnderbird

Arrival in Sabae Move (Sabae - Osaka)Thnderbird

Osaka water cruise9:30@Universal City Port

Joint review＆ceremony16:00 - 18:00＠Kyoto University of Art&DesignUmeda CampusGuests：Sei Takeyama, Shuhei Endo, Isamu Nakamura,Yusuke Koshima, Shigeki Maeda

Farewell party19:30 - 21:30＠Campagne

Kyoto Station, a node

betweenKansai and Fukui, and

between tradition and present

Welcome dinner at City Hall

and meeting with host families

Courtesy visit to the Mayor, Mr.

Makino at City Hall

First japanese house, tatami,

and Japanese-style bedding

Students had every breakfast

and dinner with host families.

Some students got Japanese

sisters or brothers.

Students gathered at ‘

Maruyama Residence’ to have

meetings at night.

Under the clear sky Watermelon splitting before the

final push

Farewell to ‘families’ Visit to the factory of Living

National Treasure, Ichibei Iwano

Visit to Eiheiji Temple


Simulation and investigation of construction efficiency

Students could spend only 5 days on design and making during the 8 days and 7 nights stay in Sabae City. Due to the unit master's policy, 17 unit members were divided into 3 groups, each of which consisted of 5 or 6 members, based on a draft system in which 3 leaders chosen by the unit master picked up members in rotation. Each team was assigned one-third of the opening, roughly 6 meters wide and 2.4 meters high, and each part would be combined to constitute a whole facade. Following presentations on the pre-workshop assignment about “filters” across Asia, all the members of each group developed their own ideas for about 30

minutes, showed and discussed about their ideas within each team, and then narrowed the ideas down to a few. Quickly produc-ing output by making digital and physical models, each team gave a presentation to everyone before the mid-term review and tried to share ideas with other teams at an early stage. Although members who had good skills in 3D modeling software played a central role in design, each team simultaneously made a physical model to investigate ways of letting in light, structure, and constructability. This process allowed the students to produce the final products in only 5 days.

Team AHani Ramadhani W.Pranitta SriwutticharnMunkhjin EnkhtaivanSanguansouk VongdeuaneKenya OkabeLi Weimeng

Team BMaherul Kader PrinceKokouy PhouKim Young JunXiaoyu SongKotono Azuma

Team CChien Po YuHikaru SugiiJulius Saptian GunawanMuhammad Naquidding JohariPhyu Sin ThetTejal Shrotriya

The work of Team A is located near the entrance of the house (the main entrance to the cafe) and its central axis. An iconic figure that might evoke the shape of an eye or a mouth attracts the attention of visitors. The angles of the members, the thickness made by overlapping, and the partial voids together generate ambigu-ous shapes of light and shadow inside.

The work of Team B is not only sandwiched between two other works but also serves to reconcile various elements as the existing architectural members act as “noise”. Linear members, the height of which is similar to that of an existing column that supporting a beam in the garage, are arranged at equal intervals and swing in relation to adjacent members, incorporating the figures and the concavity and convexity of the neighboring works, and a diagonal member that supports the existing eaves in a continuous whole.

Shadows falling from the zigzag gaps along oblique members create “folding lines of shadow” crossing the border between the floor and the wall. Rotated 90 degrees from the original plan, vertical members overlap differently from one place to another and respond to the undulating filters made by other teams. The 90-degree rotation of the zigzag gaps results in the height differ-ence of the opening, corresponding to different viewpoints of adults and children.

Unit master: Kentaro Takeguchi / Alphaville Architects

Final Review

The final review was successfully held on 25th August, though it was in danger of being cancelled due to a typhoon hitting the Hokuriku Area. It was a two-part program consisting of a site visit to the partially renovated house and a slide presentation in the auditorium of Sabae City Hall. During the site visit, just after finishing the production over several days, students shared the hardships and highlights of the production with each other and guests in front of the built filters. After returning to the city hall, each team made a graphical presentation of their idea and the processes of design and making. It is really appreciated that this project was supported by Sabae City as a whole, including a few local media covering the workshop. We hope that many people visit this site and share the memories of the workshop.

Thanks to some good fortune, we could see impressive final products in this work-shop. The subject of the workshop was not a temporary structure, which had to be demolished after completion, but a part of a building that would be actually used. Therefore, without being affected by the climate, we were able to finish the construc-tion in 3 days. And, above all, there were few reversals and students realized their ideas and actually experienced the finished product, which I believe was a great experience for them.As a unit master, that was a pleasure, but as an architect, I felt it would be also import-ant to make students experience and overcome unforeseeable accidents, which is an exciting aspect of architectural practice. Maybe this is the challenge for subsequent workshops.


Imagination beyond the landscape

The “filter”, made by 17 students in 3 teams from 13 different countries and regions, consists of 3 parts, each of which reflects the character of each team, but seems to be divided into 2 parts by the existing column. A closer look at details proves that the angles and thickness of the members are different according to their locations and, viewed as a whole, they seem to constitute a 'topogra-phy' that has both continuity and discontinuity. It is a strange field where similarities are found not among adjacent ones but among slightly separated ones. As if reflecting the essence of the multinational workshop, it allows the coexistence of diversity and conti-nuity and, without converging onto one interpretation, it asks some questions of viewers. What happened here? How was this made? Is this single or plural? What emerges is a landscape that evokes imagination beyond what is visible.

梅田合同発表会＆修了式、打上げ

ゲスト：竹山聖、遠藤秀平、前田茂樹、満田衛資、光嶋裕介、中村勇大

来日翌朝からそれぞれのユニットに分かれ、別々の土地でワークショップに取り組んでいた参加者全員がようやく一堂に会す。それぞれのユニットの報告と、ゲストクリティークからの質疑を経て、修了式では、ディレクターの堀口徹（近畿大学准教授）から参加者全員に修了証書が授与された。修了証書は、昨年に引き続き、人間国宝・岩野市兵衛氏がこのワークショップのために一枚一枚自らの手で特別に漉いた越前和紙が使われている。日本の伝統技術が文字通り凝縮された、世界に一枚だけの修了証書である。

Joint review and completion ceremony @Osaka Satellite Campus, Kyoto University of Art and DesignOn 28th August, a joint review and completion ceremony of the Asian Architectural Student Summer Workshop were held in Umeda, Osaka City. As the Mihara Unit and Sabae Unit had different programs, it was the first time since the day after their arrival that all the members gathered together. In the joint review, each unit made a presen-tation of their activities from viewpoints of “making” and “living”. The “making” part was not only an opportunity to report the results but also a time for intense discus-sion. Yusuke Koshima and Shigeki Maeda, guest critics and international polemicists, asked sharp and essential questions regarding the theme setting of each unit, discus-sions during the making process and gave their feedbacks on the final products, drawing the students and the unit masters into a hot debate. The accomplishments should be appreciated but, beyond that, it was great to end the workshop with essen-tial questions, which will be useful in future.The joint review ended with concluding remarks by Professor Takeyama, the Presi-dent of Architectural Design Association of Nippon, and subsequently the completion ceremony took place. All the 35 participants were awarded certificates of completion by Tohru Horiguchi, the director who supervised the entire workshop (washi papers made by Ichibei Iwano, a Living National Treasure of Echizen Washi papers, were used for the certificates of completion just as last year).


Feedback from participating students

TOPIC-1: About the theme and the studioTOPIC-2: About the collaboration with the other studentsTOPIC-3: About the siteTOPIC-4: About this workshop (overall)TOPIC-5: Free

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First is about the fieldwork. Every architecture student knows that construction is almost as important as design work but to tell the truth, in China few students have had the chance to get in touch with construction before graduation. So taking part in a whole set of architecture project which contains both design and construction is really helpful for me. I think it is just like studying abroad--you'll never truly understand until you try it by yourself. Then about the collaboration. I shall say that all of them are nice guys! It feels wonderful to communicate with people from different cultural as well as educational background because there are all kinds of things we can share with each other--buildings, climate, foods, lifestyles and so on. Through these kind of communication I broaden my horizon which I think could be one of the most important things for an architect. What's more, it's really a pity for one to keep himself from such rich and colorful world, isn't it?

Finally thanks again for holding such a brilliant workshop! It really works! Looking forward to your next plan!

Li

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I am very glad to meet and collaborate with architecture students from other countries. I may know how they learn & understand architecture. Commonly, the main problem is language. At some moment, we need a person who is trilingual, because not many people can speak English fl uently. I did really have a good time in Sagishima island. This island made me realize that sometimes we don't need to build 'new' architecture. It is already around us, we just need to see new opportunities and perspectives within it and it is our choice to use it properly and/or creatively.

Fei

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Attending this workshop was one of the greatest experiences of my life and I really enjoy working with amazing students from all around Asia. It also helps me to learn about different cultures, new ideas, meet new people and to create a strong diverse community.

Phyu Sin

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It was great experience for me to think about architecture with friend who has diff erent backgrounds. I have wanted to work in English so it was when my dream came true,at the same time,it was diffi cult to explain details,and rethought that my vocabulary was poor! I have to study English harder! “Act globally think locally”I think this is overall theme of this workshop. I’m Japanese and we stayed in Japan(my country), but I had felt as if I were NOT in Japan during workshop.It means that it doesn’t matter the place we work. Even if we were in isolated island(it was the opposite to international), we could talk globally and chat in open-minded. This is the biggest awareness in this workshop.

Yuichiro

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I knew Asian countries and their culture, but I’ve not talked with foreigners. This workshop was the fi rst time to share their real culture and lives. Their ways to think or design were based on their culture(that means historical design). And I was also surprised at their skills of computer design. They use CAD, Sketchup, photoshop and many softwares to make animation. I think graphic design skills help us share ideas without talking a lot. Through this workshop, I leaned how to communicate with person who has completely diff erent values(not onlytechnology of design and buildings). And I have to interpret between other students and host family. I thought about language during workshop.

Kenya Okabe

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First I feel a little boring cause I think that we will build something like Sabae unit but when the workshop going on, I find that so fun to do the hunting! I haven't do anything like this before and I like it. Hunting give me a lot of things, I need to be very observant and withstand the summer weather. I like the way Morita-San taught us, he doesn't answer away but let us fi nd the answer ourselves. The other students were so nice, it's quite hard in the beginning of the workshop to communicate with other cause my English doesn't good, but after that it's better. It's nice to collaborating with who has diff erent background, we share a lot of culture to each other. And I think its good that we have students with a variety of ages, older can share their experiences to younger.

Nat

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I think the sharing of experience or to cooperate in group was an amazing thing how try to share perspective on things architecture in a group. At fi rst we were diff erent from the background, because of every we are diff erent way teaching.But actually we have an the same language which is the architecture.Various character we meet, but we as a group got into a whole.In the clusters of this we can unite our way of thinking into a the idea of various views. Where there is a compromise among members a group in completing administrative a theme architecture. At the beginning fi rst the formation of this group there is not really the election as selection but we brought together because we have been talking each other so meetings on these are to be formed by each character. Many things i get in this event.The truth difficult to expressed in words. Meeting a friend new, meet to a master new make something previously no there. Even more i learned culture, knowledge, character and all that is in the this

is not only thing architecture just but there is something else that i could get. How live in a house home stay with family there studies city there if we just a tourist not necessarily we can visit to the city(Sabae). Maybe this event not only meet in once a chance, is it possible made between a batch of the year brought together back in a activities. Overall, this workshop is special to me. I hope we can meet again in another opportunity.

Julius

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The time spent in Japan working and studying with new friends in different countries in Asia is one of the best memories of my time. The stories shared about the design, architecture, culture of each country bring themselves more understanding, accumulated experience. That is the premise for international cooperation later.

Khanh

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I did not know the beginning how the pod architect which I collected was gathered up, but was impressed when I was able to edit building group of the island by power and the advice of the teacher to read it, and to untie of student and others. I was able to come across a lifetime friend. I love all. I thought that it was a matter of course scenery, but, in the commonplace, it has good old scenery to feel in some heart. The splendor of making a place with a building and the impression of that I was able to make friends for the overseas students and life were packed before two weeks of the workshop and experience were remain strong.

Shohei

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I want to share one most impressive thing I have learned from my studio master Kentaro Takeguchi. On the afternoon of the beginning of the design at Traditional Laquer Museum, The fi rst thing we do with Kentaro Takeguchi was to discuss how to put tables and chairs for three groups to use. We were talking about how to dividing the space. Kentaro Takeguchi tought us that architechture design learning comes from life.

Xiaoyu

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As a student from different background, I found that the teaching method of the studio master is very diff erent compared to my lecturers and I found that it is a very good thing that I can explore on other method of learning. The most memorable thing I learned from the studio master is how he handle diff erent students from diff erent country on his own way that works. This is my fi rst time abroad and I found that the diversities of student all around Asia does have any boundaries. As we can work as a cohesive team even though came from diff erent countries, background, religion, ethnics and culture. The most memorable thing I remember is how we manage to communicate to each other very well despite the language barrier. As I was placed in Sabae, I found that there are many differences between village in Japan and villages in Malaysia. As a future architect, the site makes me think about the environment, how to treat them and applied them in my future design. Besides that, from the site also I experienced new atmosphere. I could say that this is the best workshop I ever been to. This workshop had shown me how different people react to new things, how they interact with different people, how they adapt to new thing and how to work together as a team even though we do not know each other. From this workshop also, I gained new friends and now I can proudly say that I have friends all over Asia.

Naqui

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It was so great for me to stay in the Sabae village that I never know before. Am stayed there and tried to work on my project feel like I already graduated and am doing my work on the real fi eld as an architect. The environment is very good for work event a bit hot sometimes but it okay because in the future no one will work only in the offi ce. This workshop taught me a lesson of the real practice on fi eld. In conclusion I hope this workshop will continues for the next generation to have a chance to participates in the real feeling of being an architect. In Sabae each participated have to switch to one other family for one night. For me is a best feeling it like “you are going far from your home but feel like you living with your family” but it a bit short for me because only one night to switch. If it possible it can be 2 or 3 nights for each family so all the participated will have there memories more with those families and also can looking forward to visit each other on the future.

Kokouy

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I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to participate in ADAN Summer Workshop, especially in Sabae unit! Living in an old traditional Japanese wooden house with a huge backyard garden and doing daily routine just as Sabae people done made me feel as a Japanese. Kindness and humbleness of Sabae people made me feel fully accepted and keep me motivated during the process. The most challenging part of this workshop is to complete the project in short time along with new friends coming from diff erent background and culture. It seemed impossible at fi rst but we succeed! And I had no idea that I would met supportive and fun people from this event (we are still keep in touch until now!). This workshop taught me that collaboration in work is important and diversity can produce beautiful things! It's great to be given the chance to join and be part of this multicultural community! I will always remember this precious experience and of course I am excited to share it with other friends!"

Hani

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I appreciated the openness which allowed us to discover Sagishima and develop the studio brief through our progress. It was a good amount of fl exibility and clarity of scope. The tutors were able to guide us adequately and had very interesting perspectives. The success of the workshop was also owed to the nature of the brief, that it was non-competitive, that it required collective input and collaboration. There was no need to be better, there was a need to all be good.

We asked all the participating students to choose any of the following topics and freely write comments on the workshop.


That made all the diff erence in how we interacted and communicated. The workshop proves that communication lies beyond just words. Working with students from different nations and language abilities was a humbling and inspiring experience. Through the medium of photography and taking photos around the island, we could have conversations and built relationships through it. Furthermore sharing common spaces with them through the week was helpful in building stronger ties. Whenever one does site analysis, one comes as an outsider. However, if that person is able to as much as possible immerse themselves in the environment over an extended period of time, a more accurate experience of the local can be attained. It helped me recognise that traditions are living. They pay homage to the past but remain adaptable to future needs. Hence, whatever we suggest of intervene can only respond to a short instance in an entire lifetime of a tradition. Hence, there is greater attention needed to site analysis and understanding the context. Also having both local and international perspectives offer different dimensions and readings into the site. Rituals so commonly understood and overlooked as the mundane/everyday to locals can be given new life through an intrigued foreign lens. Through something so unfamiliar to an outsider can be better understood by the sharing of local knowledge. This workshop was to really get out there. An amazing fieldwork experience. To immerse, disconnect to the world and connect to the site. You not only gain new insight and learn signifi cantly, you also change as people ‒ humbled and inspired. Getting to meet, understand and befriend individuals from all over, bringing your own local expertise but also benefi tting from everyone else’s. It truly sets me hungry for more workshops like this in future.

Yuqi

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This was probably the most fascinating part of the entire workshop and the reason why I particularly choose this site over Kyoto. I really wanted to put myself beyond my comfort zone because I believe that is how we grow. Staying in a remote island with an imploding population is the extreme opposite to the place where I live and practice as an architect. I think preferences over sites like these should be emphasized in future since it presents an opportunity to work with a variety of methods and analysis tool which form spontaneously on site when we are challenged. The methods can be unconventional, raw, formed on site and that is one fascinating way to exercise new skills and methods. I have always been interested in community based design approach where local solution is given importance, solutions that come from the site and the community, methods that are organic and spontaneous. Working in Mihara has been a great infl uence in that aspect of learning and it made me think whether there can be a later attempt of connecting/comparing remote areas in Bangladesh with a parallel context, Mihara. I believe there is substantial number of potential work scope to conduct this research and I hope to work with it further. In this era of globalization, I strongly believe in the multidisciplinary nature of architecture profession and I advocate for being involved in the world trend toward internationalization through international exchange and communication. This workshop opened a window to communicate beyond boundaries and presented potential scope to initiate cross border practice. One of the sides of the workshop which adds to the diversity is the scale that it off ers the participant to work in. The nature of the workshop is diverse in a sense that, this time we got to work both in regional scale incorporating the analysis, research and mapping in contrast with the one in Kyoto which was more into detail based design built architectural workshop. So the diversity in the workshop is what made it unique this time. I think, if continued, the workshop can turn into a global platform for conducting research and design projects followed by archiving the gained knowledge and materials. Thus, I would defi nitely encourage the students to participate to recognize their potential and push forward to know more in an international scale.

Ishika

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The Sagi Island just likes an epitome of Japan, small but warm.But as a result of aging population it's becoming too quite. Glad to see those local

people who are not give this island up,and always try their best to attract society's attention."

Wang

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This summer, I took part in the 2017 Asian Architecture Srudents Summer Workshop in sagijima island , Japan. It was a very unique experience for me. This island was very small and remote with less than 700 (not remember clearly) people live on. However, it enjoyed long coastline and crystal-clear sea. What’s more, the island was peaceful as a paradise where we could forget the time and forget our troubles, just listen to the sound of the waves… No matter which country you came from, the islanders who met you would greet you cordially. But what made me miss most was our unit members, however we all came from diff erent countries, had diff erent native languages, we hunted together, we ate together, we played together like family …I can't forget the scenes of chatting together after the workshop every night, I can't forget the scenes we danced hand in hand, and I also can’t forget the scenes that we tried our best to draw and work just for a same goal. This workshop gave me a lot. It was a great experience for me.

Lucy

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My chairman lead my project in fourth grade that makes her knowing about my personality and ability in design.So she thought the chance of worshop is suit for me and I realized the chance was very rare so I took it.I think the how to train the creative and design process are very similar between Taiwan and Japan so that makes me comfortable.The most impressive is the atmosphere of presentation,workshop took it very seriously that is rare situation for me,I believe it showing up the Japaness attitude in everthing. Beacause of this workshop had a lot of countries member and all of them are full of pation that made the discuss diversely and had a lot of fun,the site of project also amazing that can make me know more how the Japaness life is.So of course I will recommend my friends to seize the chance join the workshop not only make a lot of friends but also experience the traditional life in Japan.

Po-Yu Chien

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There are many thing , more knowledges , more experiences I received from this workshop. For example, I got informations and details including atmosphere about Japanese style's house when we surveying at Kyoto, went to good case study architecture “TIME Building” that designed by Tadao

Ando or many case from lecture’s time that help me a lot when I came back in my eabaS ta lufecaeP , ecaps dna yrosnes tuoba tcejorp ym ni tpada nac I ytisrevinu

,During workshop we can design thing that not only imagination but it for real use. Studio masters is good adviser , "Kentaro Takeguchi Sensei ” He tell us about our problems is very clear. He think our project has some mistake and he off er many solve ways support how to develop to the best answer. That is similar in my university BUT Not all of them , This workshop is better because there is freedom for thinking ,when I have ideas I can suggest suddenly. My impressive is we can make thing on scale 1:1 That is the biggest model I ever done! ,When we present in front of many people when fi nal present’s day at Sabae ,I’m so excited but it very nice memory . I learned about technical of wood craft from master. I got new knowledges, We share our knowledges and brain storm what is the best way to solve a problem or during we have problem on the site . I got new words of Architecture's process like tectonic . when we working we will be free to suggest ideas and accept other friends's comments, work process Priority what is the most important not only aesthetic but also contents. Basic of Personality is diff erence way ,we use other languages but we good at other thing too, some friend good at computer ,some friend like to suggest Idea ,Planning, Wood craft but we share and help each other and we can complete this project together :) Sometime we can’t communicate or we misunderstood because our pronounce in English is diff erence but we will draw a picture , diagrams or sketch or write , and friends try to listen my opinions this is my impressive too. This workshop give me a lot not just knowledges and experiences but I learned from famous Japanese architects who instructive me for improve my ability that include thinking process, design , practice process , etc. This workshop contribute to make new experiences in teamwork that broader society with the students who come from several countries we have new friends and good memory ever and I want you to organize good workshop like this again for everyone who interested :)

Pranitta

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I found the teaching method of the studio is very interesting. Because the studio allows us to visit the old village in japan. According the observation, I can clean to understand more about the Japanese architecture and diff erent types of the Japanese living condition. The difference between with the architect in Hong Kong is the Hong Kog architect always base on the cost and less attention on the living quality. The most impressive I learned is how to convey the architecture idea to the people who don’t understand what is architecture, which is architect must to how to do this. During the sharing time with other students from diff erent cultural and educational background, each student has different types of architecture approach and idea. The impressive thing is the Japanese architecture idea is so diff erent to other people, because Japanese architect always concern the living quality, then to respond the users. Most of student would like to think about the idea to attract people to use the architecture. How was your experience or impression of staying and working in the island/the village? Did it make you think of your field of practice as an architect in the future, for example, global, local, community-based, development-based, domestic, international, etc… Staying and working in the island can see more about the real Japanese’s life, because living the big city, it doesn’t show the real Japanese’s life. During the research on the island, we can understand how local people to building architecture and they have their idea and sense of architecture. All building on the island are happening in accident, which can see architecture isn’t always starting on the drawing., I would like the workshop can use the local material provide by the local people to building facility for them, we can start learning how they use the local material building the pod architecture on the island, then we can follow their methods. This is method will be unusual to the architecture students.

Woody

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Collaborating with other students made a great impact for me.

They inspire me .i think they must do their best in school,working and so on,to enjoy their life.so I can also do my best. About this work shop,if I explain to other student in architecture,I’ll say that”you can know how other country students consider architecture and what they do to archive their dreams .same time ,you can fi nd your new japan through their eyes.” Sugishima is very diff erent from where I go every day . The city in island is maybe one of old cities in japan. However,it was new to me.

Chika

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Normally, if i work in a school, i will focus more on the designs, and i don't really think about the actual structure and the how creat of it. However, this workshop learned ' how ' and remain the most memorable. ' how to realize this design' is the most important thing in this workshop and it was the biggest question. hofully our teachers eff ectively helped us with it. Our team have all Different countries, different language and culture, but we have only one goal, so I think that can transcend everything. I think language is not a barrier. we were able to successfully carry out this project because it was diff erent from one another, and diff erent languages were diff erent and diff erent from each other. Usually, most people expected a workshop is takes place in a city, but this workshop place it a small town. that was the most i liked it. I think global city has already became more equal than ever. high rise building and lots of peoples.The village we went was able to directly can experience true Japanese culture and history, and it seemed to be the biggest asset to me. I would do this if I asked my friend to explain this workshop. You may not be able to participate once, but if you participate, you may want to continue.I strongly recommend to the others While studying architecture, there are a lot of design, but there are not many practical experiences. In addition, it would be very rare for Asian students to make it together. and The best way to get to know and understand a person is to make something together. The workshop is a workshop with everything you learn, experience, and know each other. I think that the work we made was so satisfying and successful.First of all, I would like to thank my teachers for living and staying together. I lived with my teachers. As a matter of fact, it is like a pension so i felt more comfortable than a homestay. Also, it was good that we could communicate directly with teachers. However, I felt that I was too far away from other houses. and I wonder about Japanese culture and wonder about Japanese traditional houses. It was sad that I did not experience with actually living. I felt that there was too little interaction between the village team and the islnad team. On the fi rst day and the last day, only a few hours had ended, and i felt that it looks like actually two separate workshops. Of course, physically


far away is the most big reason i think, but I thought it would be better if we had been touring with Osaka and Kyoto.

Yeoug Jun

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I was interested in how diff erence of lattice their imaging by each country. And when deciding the lattice design, we made model and checking the shadow made by our model by light. That is really creative working. At the fi rst night in Shin-osaka, our roommates showed some works eachother and my motivation was going up to see their great works. First, we had a little distance but by showing works, we were closer.When i want to tell my opinion about design, i couldn't tell all with my English. I needed to use some images. Everyone could understand to see that so I got big achieve. Sabae people and all Asian students could make good relation in spite of diff erence of culture. so why we could spend great time in Sabae. I had to translate English and Japanese so that was a little hard work to me but it is my pleasure. After the workshop my motivation is going up so I want to recommend to all students. In this workshop, every students have some special abilities and weak things each other. But we could make up for each other’s weak things. I learned it is the most important thing regardless of contry. This workshop is really excited. Talking English and designing and making. I was surprised myself I could done this hard work in almost 2 weeks. And also I am pleasure I could get new great friends together in this workshop!

Kotono

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It was a very unforgettable experience in my life for being an architectural student that could have a chance to explore the culture of sagi-island. I am in love with all the nature, especially the kindness and friendliness of the people. This could be a window to open my eyes view to work as a community-based with my future fi eld of practice as an architect.

Cheata

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The Studio theme was very interesting since its results were based on a larger scale, for a large group of people and community and for the city fabric. The most interesting point of the studio theme was that it was very uncertain at the fi rst and then it developed into outputs as the studio moved ahead.　The teaching method was very unique and it was a good Hands On experience. It was conveyable and very idiomatic which helped to develop a informal learning bond between a student and the studio master.　The approaches were similar and detailed like the ones we have in our country.　The most impressive thing that I learnt from the Studio Masters is the way decisions were made during the workshop. The way the decision was taken to exhibit the work on the floor in front of the community. And the most memorable thing that I have learnt from the studio masters is to be kind. The experience of sharing time and interacting with students from different cultural background was actually a gratuity of knowing how people from diff erent background have a perspective on Architecture. From sharing the dormitories to the Public Bath, we have made many friends who have grown into family. Especially the students from Japan, have cared and supported us making everything familiar and easy. The informal exchange of massive knowledge wouldn't have been possible without the workshop.　The most impressive thing for me was to learn to eat by chopsticks.　All the students were very kind, helpful, and generous. Everyone had their own way of working and unique set of skills. And more importantly, everyone was ready to share the knowledge they had. The location for the workshop was very beautiful. Japan being the country of islands, I was very much expecting the workshop to happen around

the sea. The most captivating thing about the accommodation was to live within the Japanese culture and to learn to do all the cultural activities throughout the day including eating the variety of food everyday.　Yes, it did make me think of Japan being my fi eld of practise as an architect in the future, where I would like resolve the issues of community through architecture, just the way we did it in the workshop. I was very excited for the workshop, since I knew that there was nothing to loose but only to gain knowledge. And the excitement was even more to know what we were actually going to do in the workshop. The time when Mihara troop landed in the Sagishima island, the hunting was begun. And everyone was were waiting to explore the island. On the fi rst day, things were kept open and free by the Studio Master and we were provided with the bikes to explore the island and the fi rst thing we all did was to take loop run around the island. Now this is where the workshop took a turn, when the students were allowed to explore and the outputs produced by the students decided the next step for the workshop. Even if the workshop had a day wise itinerary, the workshop developed upon the critical decisions taken everyday. The involvement of students was more since it was an Hands on (on site) exercise. The Mihara team were equipped with all the necessary facilities including printing and drinks. The entire itinerary of the workshop was well planned. Along with the workshop we also explored many places nearby and also the city Osaka. We explored and learned about the cutting edge architecture of Japan. Visiting the Nipponbashi house designed by the architect you admire, Tadao Ando was breath taking.　Within the beauty of Japan and its kind architecture, we learned many things which we could only imagine of.　So between the two contrast locations of a village and a island, I am sure Japan has many such diff erent places where the workshop could be explored.　Yes, I will recommend this workshop to my friends and to all the people I will come across who share the same fi eld. I would like to specially thank all the Studio Masters and all the people involved in this workshop, for giving me an opportunity which I couldn't miss.　I look forward to visit Japan for my further studies in Architecture and would not miss a chance to meet all the people involved in the workshop.　The delicious food of Japan is one of the factor which will always bring me back to Japan.　I am very impressed very the kind nature of the people in Japan. Always ready to help and guide.

Sumeet

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I think both Tohru sensei and studio master Morita-san gave us alot of freedom to work but at the same time kept an eye on us and gave us directions. Lectures at night is another amazing part of this workshop we were able to get close to some great Japanese architects and to see their work. I think we blended in really quick, because initially there is architecture for us to talk about and its always interesting to know about other culture that we had an amazing two weeks together and created amazing memories no matter from architecture works or things we do together everyday. Sagishima is like nowhere I have been to, be able to not only do architecture works but also live and experience daily life there is amazing. This workshop allow us to experience life and to draw very close to the culture in Japan. Apart from the lecture and work of architecture we have, we are so lucky to have the chance to visit places like Osaka, Naoshima, and even house designed by Ando. I think this is the best part of the workshop, and I will highly recommend this workshop to anyone. Two weeks are too short, hope everyone is doing well and hope to see everyone in the future, and maybe go back to Sagi-island together someday.

Jay

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About the site,it realy gave me inspiring moments,i learned to treasure every little detail not only in architecture but in everything.I found there peace and lot of new ideas.When i visited the small island i understood that architecture is past,present and future.We design in the present thinking about the future. And it becomes a memory of the past. I t was real ly interest ing for me to meet many different

characters,many diff erent minds and thoughts.For architecture student exploring and finding someting new,meeting with new people is everything,i am very thankfull to everyone for this architecture workshop.

Maral

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Credits

Director Tohru Horiguchi /Faculty of Architecture, Kindai University

Unit Masters Kazuya Morita / Kazuya Morita Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio (Mihara Unit) Kentaro Takeguchi / Alphaville Architects (Sabae Unit)

Coordinators Yoichiro Hayashi / NAAD (Sabae Unit) Sei Yoshikawa / Architectural Design Association on Nippon (Mihara Unit)

Executive Producer Shuhei Endo / Kobe University

Producers Yuhei Maruyama / Architects Studio Japan Kinji Takeuchi / Takeuchi Construction

Guests (Sabae & Mihara) Sei Takeyama / Kyoto University Shuhei Endo / Kobe University Guests (Mihara) Hideyuki Ohnishi / Deputy Mayor of Mihara City Kinji Niiyama / Principal of Sagiura Elementary School Keisuke Maeda / UID Nao Kono / tsumiki LLC. Momoko Kono / tsumiki LLC.Guests (Sabae) Hyakuo Makino / Mayor of Sabae City Katsuhisa Sasaki / Chairman of Sabae City Council Satoru Umehara / UME Architects Asako Yamamoto / Akphaville Architects Eisuke Mitsuda / Mitsuda Structural Consultants Guests (Osaka) Shigeki Maeda / Osaka Institute of Technology Yusuke Koshima / Yusuke Koshima Architecture Studio

Supporters Building Maintenance Department / Sabae City Government Tatsushi Hongo / Mihara City Government Naoki Kakee / Architects Studio Japan Hidetsugu Matsushita / Architectural Design Association on Nippon Keigo Nishio / Architectural Design Association on Nippon

Cooperators Teachers and 11 pupils of Sagiura Elementary School Sagishima volunteer guide group Sagitei (Kayoko Tanaka & Katsuko Sirasu) Eri Minobe (RAćKU) Host families in Sabae People in Kawada (Maruyama family, Daimon family, Yamada family, Komazen, Aiko Kimura) Ichibei Iwano (Living National Treasure of Echizen Washi Paper) Aqua Metropolis Osaka Consortium Kyoto University of Art and Design (Isamu Nakamura) The Rookies Award for Architectural Students Executive Committee Sato Laboratory, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Fukuyama University Kindai University Faculty of Architecture

Sponsors Architects Studio Japan Takeuchi Construction

Grant Hiroshima Satoyama Future Expo 2017

Cooperation Mihara City

Joint Organizer / Subsidy Sabae City

Organizer Architectural Design Association of Nippon

Documents

ASIAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT SUMMER WORKSHOP