Void - Volume
2020 Speculative Design
HMW re-think sustainable urbanism through the dynamism of waste?
The empty trash bin in your house - who knows where it goes?
The beautiful Tokyo which everyone admires for its cleanliness - where has all the waste been?
All the urban waste has been used for landfilling in Tokyo Bay for more than 100 years to gain extra area. However, most of us have never been aware of its existence since all lands are covered by massive concrete and filled with a bunch of gigantic buildings.
The Truth is that Tokyo Bay has no more capacity for managing waste any more than 50 years, and what is worse, we do not have any solution for this serious problem.
The primary objective of this project is to get people aware of this serious issue in Tokyo. Instead of making a flat plane, we stack up all the urban waste to design a mountain. We visualise the dynamism of waste to create a new landscape of Tokyo metropolis.
