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Ito Project

Ito Project

Retreat / Ito Shizuoka / 2022 / Design developed

How to design an open field, where nobody has decided how to play.

A stay-and-experience facility where children with disabilities and their families can spend time together as a family. An existing building is reorganised as a place for therapy and leisure built around food education. What we were after was somewhere like an open field: not an amusement park where the way to play is decided in advance, and not a bare meadow with nothing to go on, but a space with plenty of openings for play, where you decide for yourself how to use it. For this we built a simulation that extracts every convex space contained in the building – every extent within which people can see one another. Places where many convex spaces overlap were read as places to play in numbers; places holding only small convex spaces as places to be alone. Trees, level changes and outdoor furniture were positioned from that reading. Inside, movable fittings let the room take four forms: lecture, open floor, workshop and gallery.

SPACE

COMPUTATION

What a convex space is. In one continuous space people can see one another; divide it, and the extents they can see split apart
What a convex space is. In one continuous space people can see one another; divide it, and the extents they can see split apart
Every convex space that fits inside the existing plan, extracted
Every convex space that fits inside the existing plan, extracted
Scanning the rooms and the garden exhaustively, with the overlap of convex spaces shown in colour. The more they overlap, the redder
Scanning the rooms and the garden exhaustively, with the overlap of convex spaces shown in colour. The more they overlap, the redder
The same scan run under different conditions
The same scan run under different conditions
Convex spaces large and small scattered through the garden, following the scan
Convex spaces large and small scattered through the garden, following the scan
Hours of direct sun reaching the garden at the summer solstice (21 June) with no net overhead. One full day, calculated every five minutes
Hours of direct sun reaching the garden at the summer solstice (21 June) with no net overhead. One full day, calculated every five minutes
The same day with the net in place. The garden is in direct sun for less of the day
The same day with the net in place. The garden is in direct sun for less of the day
No net, at the winter solstice (21 December)
No net, at the winter solstice (21 December)
The same day with the net in place
The same day with the net in place

DATA

LocationIto Shizuoka
ProgrammeRetreat
Year2022
Structural engineeringGraph Studio LLC (Yoshihiro Fukushima)
MEP engineeringComodo Setsubi Keikaku
Other servicesBusiness Restructuring Subsidy

Approaches: Sightlines / Form and arrangement
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