Dissolved Boundary
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Otsu has a long and narrow city area along Lake Biwa. Therefore, the lake, the city center, and the mountains are close to each other.
The lakeshore space, she says, is like a row of fabrics arranged in a disjointed manner.In contrast to the conventional way of creating cities, in which space is divided according to ownership, management, and function, such as parks up to here and roads from here, she presents a new way of creating cities by reorganizing water, banks, parks, streets, city blocks, and mountains as a single seamless fabric based on the method of unraveling threads and joining fabrics together.
The matrix (above), which shows the design of connecting separated spaces with concrete "things" and "operations" (loosen, untied, come apart, get twisted, cut, stretch, and tie) based on the behavior and operations of loosing boundaries, is worthy of attention. Furthermore, the plan of the future Niohama and the surrounding area, which was drawn by applying each element of the matrix to each section according to the local situation, is very detailed and advocative (below ).
drawn by Mika Sasaki
Sasaki's work suggests that the land is essentially a seamless link.
drawn by Mika Sasaki
