Three Cubes in the Forest 2015
Designers: Kotoaki Asano and Toyohito Shibamura, Kotoaki Asano Architect & Associates, Shibamura Structural Engineers, Ota-ku Tokyo, Japan
Manufacturer: Kotoaki Asano Architect & Associates, Nishizawa Co., Ltd., Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Playground equipment for children, public furniture, art objects, meditation rooms, arbors, small rest spaces, waiting rooms, chairs with roofs. Three cubes are the device with the various properties and functions. Three cubes can be transported by a truck easily and can be installed, because of the size and the shape, and each place is given the new public extensity. Urban space is activated, by three cubes with the rich spatial implication.
Three cubes are referenced to Japanese traditional spaces like tea ceremony rooms. Its characteristics can be explained from the viewpoint of richness, variability, mobility of minimum spaces. Three cubes can bring people new playful spatiality and heuristic spactial experiences in each place.
The inside is filled with various devices in comparison with the concise appearance. More specifically, a part of the cube whose side is 1,800 mm to 2,000 mm is cut off. It is placed so that the cut surface of each cube is on the ground. Therefore, each cube contains space with the richer complexity than imagined. And, in terms of the degree of leaning, material, a seat surface, a size of window and the placement, each cube is designed characteristically and is distinctively differentiated from each other. It is possible for children and families to rest for a long time, and children can meet scenery and people here. Therefore, the dimensional relationships are strictly considered.