The Tokyo IO_dencies project combines physical, local urban dynamics of the selected city quarter of Shimbashi with virtual network flows (the activities of the participants in the net). The movements towards 'an other city' will be generated by manipulating, operating and modifying the urban flows. SHIMBASHI- local urban profiles In Tokyo, the central Shimbashi area was analysed in collaboration with local architects (Sota Ichikawa a.o.). Shimbashi, a huge empty area in the center of Tokyo which has, for the moment, been turned into an archaeological site (the remains of the Shidome Station) and which lies in the neighbourhood of the Ginza shopping area, different motor highways, and the Shinkansen train line. Several 'zones of intensities' (these are zones where different urban flows come together, meet, collapse, break, enlarge, diffuse, etc., and where energies from different flows are exchanged) were selected: Ginza-Shopping Area, Imperial Hotel, Fish Market, Highway Entrance, Hamarikyu garden + Homeless Area, Shimbashi Station, Hinode Passenger Terminal, JR-Appartment House, World Trade Center.



tokyo city

1997



selected parts of tokyo
city aspects (Shimbashi)
city aspects (Hinode)
city collaborators
urban analyses 1
urban analyses 2


around shimbashi area
(archaeological field in 1997). The existence of such empty field in Tokyo is very unusual. It build the projection field for the conceptual Urban Profile which was created after analysing the peripherie round the historic Shimbashi station.