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SUMMARY:Beyond Scrap and Build: New Approaches towards Working with Existi
 ng Building Stock in Japan / EPFL Architecture\, Archizoom\, S AM
DTSTART:20221115T183000
DTEND:20221115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260510T075551Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Norihisa Kawashima\, Yutaro Muraji\, Mio Tsuneyama\, Sarah N
 ichols\nPanel Discussion with Norihisa Kawashima\, Yūtarō Muraji\, Mio T
 suneyama and Sarah Nichols (respondent)\n\nBuilding culture in Japan has 
 long been characterized by a “scrap-and-build” model\, tearing down ol
 d buildings and erecting new ones in cycles of approximately thirty years 
 to accommodate new needs. In recent years\, however\, financial constraint
 s\, declining demand for housing as the population shrinks\, and an increa
 sed awareness of the environmental burden of this model have forced a shif
 t from a consumption-centered "flow" paradigm to a "stock" paradigm whose 
 emphasis lies on reusing existing building stock and building for the long
 er term. As rates of vacant houses in Japan reach new highs every year\, t
 he reactivation and transformation of the building stock inherited from pr
 evious generations is becoming an important – and urgent – new frontie
 r in Japanese architectural practice.\n\nIn this event\, three architects 
 who are developing innovative approaches towards building beyond the scrap
 -and-build model will present on their research and practice.\n\n> Yūtar
 ō Muraji of CHAr focuses on the development of open-source “recipes
 ” for DIY renovations of wooden rental apartment buildings\, a mass hous
 ing typology that became prevalent in urban Japan during the post-war boom
  but is now often a cause of urban decay. Rather than focus on tailored so
 lutions for individual buildings\, his interest is in creating decentraliz
 ed systems through which building transformations can be implemented in a 
 mass scale. \n\n> Norihisa Kawashima of Nori Architects conducts resear
 ch on mid-rise office buildings\, a very common typology of building stock
  dating from the 1980s and 1990s\, as an untapped resource in Japan. The r
 ecent project Good Cycle Building in Nagoya is a pilot project using sal
 vaged\, recycled\, and upcycled materials for how such a renovation might 
 look like. \n\n> On the scale of the individual building\, Mio Tsuneyama 
 (together with Fuminori Nousaku) is engaged in an ongoing experiment in 
 „rewilding“ an unspectacular house from the 1980s through small and 
 self-directed interventions in order to reconnect the building to the mate
 rial\, social\, and thermal flows of the city.\n\nShort presentations by t
 he architects will be followed by a response and discussion moderated by S
 arah Nichols\, assistant professor of architecture at EPFL.\n\nThis event 
 is organized on the occasion of the exhibition “Make Do With Now: New Di
 rections in Japanese Architecture” (12 November 2022 – 12 March 2023) 
 at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel.\n\nNorihisa Kawashima (bo
 rn 1982) is an architect and founder of Nori Architects. He obtained his 
 master’s degree from the University of Tokyo Graduate School in 2007\, a
 fter which he was hired by Nikken Sekkei. In 2012\, he became a visiting s
 cholar at University of California\, Berkeley and then\, in 2014\, became 
 an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture of Tokyo Institut
 e of Technology. Kawashima earned a PhD from the University of Tokyo Grad
 uate School in 2016\, before establishing Nori Architects in 2017. In 2020
 \, Kawashima became a senior assistant professor at Meiji University\, whe
 re he is now the principal of the Regional Design Laboratory.\n\nYūtarō 
 Muraji (born 1987) is the founder of CHAr\, a non-profit design firm ba
 sed in Tokyo dedicated to the creation of next-generation urban habitats a
 nd the realization of social innovation through architectural approaches.
  He is also one of the founding partners of @KAMATA\, a creative collecti
 ve focusing on revitalization projects in the southern part of Tokyo that 
  local spatial properties as incubation space\, galleries and SOHOs. Yū
 tarō studied architecture at Keio University and received his masters in 
 2012. He is currently a senior assistant professor at Meiji University and
  has taught and lectured at numerous academic institutions.\n\nMio Tsuneya
 ma (born 1983) is a Japanese architect and founder of Studio mnm. She bega
 n her architectural studies at Tokyo University of Science (TUS) and gradu
 ated from the EPFL in 2008 as Swiss Government International Scholarships 
 student. She served as an intern at Bonhôte Zapata Architectes Genève\, 
 from 2005 to 2006 and worked as an architect at HHF Architects in Basel fr
 om 2008 to 2012. Following her return to Japan\, she has taught at TUS as 
 assistant professor and lecturer since 2013. In 2022\, she was invited to 
 teach as guest professor at EPFL in 2022. Her work has been presented at t
 he Japanese Pavilion in the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale\, among othe
 rs.\n\nSarah Nichols is an assistant professor of architecture at EPFL an
 d director of the lab THEMA (Theory of Environment and Materials in Archit
 ecture). Her scholarly work examines the environmental and political entan
 glements of construction\, particularly through building materials. Her ma
 terial retrospective Béton was recently shown at the Swiss Architecture
  Museum in Basel. She is currently working on a book manuscript Opératio
 n Béton: Constructing Concrete in Switzerland based on her dissertation 
 for which she was awarded the ETH Medal. \n 
LOCATION:Forum\, Rolex Learning Center https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E
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