Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2017.
Theme: House of dimensions
Judge: Go Hasegawa
First prize
A house is on the border.
Situated on the collision of cultures.
A house is a reflection of contemporary events.
An echo of current world migrant crises.
A house is a concept.
A house is a collage.
It is composed of randomly distributed walls, beams, columns, volumes, and gardens.
A house is a mixture of fragmented layers of different cultures.
They change its shape and size.
A house, therefore, becomes small and big.
A house has tension.
By changing its dimension, each element gains a new function.
A house is complex and contradictory.
So, for instance, a column, depending on its size can become a chair, a chapel, a well, a shower...
A house becomes a sensory artifact.
A house does not solve problems.
It is useful and useless.
A house has light and darkness.
It accepts the Real and acknowledges the Unknown.
A house becomes the starting point and the destination.