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Shinichi Ogawa

A house for "existing everywhere at the same time".
A house for oneself, living in a certain place, but also for oneself, existing
simultaneously in various worlds.
To exist in a certain place, in an age when people around the world simultaneously share massive volumes of information, is simply one choice from among unlimited possibilities. Let us create spaces which---even while having a neutrality which enables them to exist anywhere in the world---can exist not anywhere but rather only here, within a special relationship with their place.
The context which architecture must take as its background is no longer simply the surrounding environment and the character of its place.
Let us create architecture which is open to the immense volumes of
information ubiquitous in the world and able to take the world as its context,
even while being in its place.

01 ubiquitous

The convertibility of functions and forms permits the simultaneous development and parallel coexistence of all things and a high degree of choice.

02 real

The city and architectural spaces are an ever changing bundle of incidents-the endless; movements of human beings, things, information, emotion, memories time, energy, lights, and the multiple intersections of those movements.

03 invisible

Architecture is an idea or thought, a concept, an imperceptible creative act, before it is a material object.

04 neutral

By reassembling architecture on an abstract level liberated from architectural concepts of vocabularies, space becomes all things yet nothing, thereby acquiring greater freedom.

05 transscale

Diverse scales - universe, city, architecture, body, cell, etc. - are crossed over the hierarchy of the parts and the whole is trascended and every phenomenon and material are relativized.

06 body

To consider hte relationship of human beings to architecture on an inconscious level is to consider that relationship as a mutual dialogue or rapport that trascends reason, function or rationality.

07 script

All things exist in dynamic relationships and interactions.

08 abstractt

Architecture permits the body to change and envelops that body. As the extension of the body, it itself undergoes transformations. A changing architecture exists inside the changing body.

writings of Shinichi Ogawa from
realscript / ubiquitous house