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Intermission










Intermission is a project that attempts to render visible the housing deconstruction processes around Yanesen. It understands the efficiency and velocity of the building, demolition, and recycling industries and presents itself as a modest bypass to them, offering a pause or temporary stop within the relentlessness of the construction industry in Tokyo. As such, the proposed project aims to praise the existing built environment and advocates for a collective performance on maintenance, transformation, and display of otherwise forgotten pieces of scrap.

In section, the building behaves as a largescale shelf, in which the collection of recovered elements of architecture are vertically organized by size using a large bridge crane that sorts very large and miscellaneous objects like a fragment of a shrine on the ground floor, to toilets and windows on the middle floors, and doorknobs, screws and smaller electrical fixtures on the sixth floor. The back of the building contains the necessary workshops (milling routers, 3d scans, woodshop, metal shops,...) to transform and reproduce the diverse objects.

The building produces an admirable messiness and a not-so-choreographed dance of things and stuff during the day. During the evening, however, the building behaves as a performance space, where the immense number of fragments of demolished houses become the best collection of props. The building lights up and performs.


Harvard GSD | 2024 
Supervisor: Mohsen Mostafavi