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“Lost Homes - Scale Model and Requiem for 3.11” in “1.17/3.11 Architecture for Tomorrow” Exhibition

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14 models are displayed in an exhibition “1.17/3.11 Architecture for Tomorrow”, Hankyu Umeda Office Tower (24F), Osaka (February 18 ~ March 12, 2012).
Supervision: Shin Takamatsu
Project Design: Osamu Tsukihashi, Katsu Umebayashi, Toshiaki Kawai

[HP] http://tomorrow-archi.jp


1.17/3.11 Architecture for Tomorrow

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" Lost Homes - Requiem Scale Model for 3.11"
Completion: 2011

The Great East Japan Earthquake destroyed many towns and villages in seconds at the coastal area of ​​the Pacific Ocean in Tōhoku area, Japan in the afternoon on March 11, 2011. Over 3 hundred thousand building and houses collapsed, semi-collapsed or flooded. Quite a few towns in these areas disappeared completely.

As architects and urban designers, we feel keenly the need of expressing our mourning. We decide to commemorate lost towns by restoring them by scale models. Architects participating in Archi+Aid activities all over Japan and many architecture students support the project.

In an exhibition “311 Lost Homes”, organized at TOTO Gallery (November 2-December 24, 2011), we show 1:500 white scale models which represent 14 seriously damaged districts in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. 13 university laboratories and more than 250 volunteer architecture students built models which represent accurately more than 5,000 houses and sceneries. Evoking memories of daily lives lost in the tragic events, we hope, the models would be the first step for people toward recovering from the disaster.
Scale Model Project for Restoring Lost Homes