RE-MANUFACTURING LANDSCAPE
Yuto Shiozaki - Anita Heredia
2011_07_28

PROCESS PROPOSAL
ProgramCommunityDevelopment

Phase

Phase 1Now

Debris Management(local+volunteers)- Education - Collection- Sorting- Processing- Storage

EcologicalAssessment-Debris safety assesment for:-estuarine environment-contact with sea-land removal destination-Construction Methods

Discussion- Site Plan

Landscape Design

Pilgrimage:-use of the existing damaged infrastructure
to provide access to pt C. Pilgrimage asstruggle.
-Deﬁnition of the path network from pt C.
Coastline:-land removal, land ﬁll, port infrastructure

Phase 2
PartialPilgrimage:-new access and connection to C from theShrine. Existing access becomes secondaryor obsolete.
-Transformation of the path network by thecommunity.
Coastline:-residential, commercial use north of Edo

Phase 3Complete

Pilgrimage:-initial access ereased.
-path network keeps transforming,connecting, intersecting. (community)
Coastline:-sealing the mountain but leaving thebypassroad and piers.

Purpose-Sensorial and experiential pilgrimage toenhance people’s interactions with themountain and the rememberance of it’s
past.
-Coastline and lowlands redeﬁnition tobring sea and people together preserving
the existing marine diversity and intensifying portuary activity and market.

Construction(local+volunteers)

Local Economic Revitalization
Debris Removal
Community Gathering=community center-landﬁll safety control

Reduction of Environmental Risk

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Phase

Phase 1

Site

Collection
Local,
Volunteers

UtatsuWhole Area

Site A
Project Site
Site B
Temporary Collection Site
Processing Site
Site C
Temporary Collection Site

Phase 2, 3Site A (Project Site)
Volunteers,
StorageLocal,
Specialist

Education

Temporary Meeting Place
Local

Local,
Volunteers
Sorting
Local,
Volunteers,
Specialist

Other Scheme

Local,Volunteers,
Construction (Landﬁll) Specialist

Processing
Specialist
Storage (Phase 1,2,3)

Temporary Meeting Place (Phase 1)
Construction (Phase 2,3)

Reconstruction of Infrastructure,
Permanent Buildings and so on

Education- Learn how to sort debris
Collection- Collect remaining debris, sort & carry them to temporary collection site (site b,c)
Sorting- Sort debris in temporary collection site which have been collected up to now
Processing- Sort debris further for recycle & reuse- Remove toxic substance from debris
Storage- Carry and store processed debris into storage site
Temporary Meeting Place- Discuss what & how local people want to do in project site before construction.
Construction- Start landﬁll when debris are stored to an extend

Collection
Collection

Sorting C

Meeting Storage
Place
ASorting
Processing
BRE-MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPE
Question: Can we really make it what it was before, can we return it to it’s virgin state?
And if so, is it responsible for us to do so?
Where is its truth, its essence: 10, 50, 100 years ago?
Rice ﬁelds as an example of a manufactured landscape which enhances a natural characteristic of the area
(watershed).
The proposed path is the artiﬁcial which will enhance, add to, or transform the landscape and people’s interactions with it.
It’s nothing else than a path. A minimal intervention that is temporary, mutable and transformable by the people,
by nature and through time.
Look at how Japanese architecture enhances and intensiﬁes people’s experiences of landscape. Installations
scattered along the path. Shoji screens as transparencies, wooden columns as trees. Possibility of using existingdamaged elements. People can move and alter and transform.
Deﬁne the constraints for the people to build on. An informed choice respectful of landscape and heritage.

Existing ramp

Sealing the mountain but leaving the bypass road and piers.
Reading the built landscape as we occupy natural landscape.

Transparency-trees as sculptures that ﬁlter the viewof the sea-ﬁltering light and views-medium density vegetation-50% sea exposure
Design parameters & program

Exposure, emptiness,nothingness-exposed, open to sea-transformations of the experience: beauty
during good weather, fear during storm,terror during a tsunami, even if one is safe
-Not a destination. It is only one of all thepoints on the path. One is free to choose
how to experience or inteterpret the place.
Design parameters & program-descending stairs asaccess-existing rock reaching
into the sea-nothingness, emptiness

Seclusion, privacy
Protection, safety-dense shrubs (human height) that block theview but allow the light from above (nodense canopy)-space that has been used before by someone (chair and table)
Design parameters & program-very dense canopy-protection: rain (shelter for the ﬁrst 5 min,light rain, moisture, wet), wind, sun
Design parameters & program

PHASING AND DESIGN PARAMETERS
PHASE 1: NOW
Path AC: determined by the physicalconstraints of the post-tsunami siteusing the existing damaged infrastructure as the access to the hill.
Pilgrimage as struggle.
A: turning point (one turns away fromjinja)
AB: passage under the bridge, climbing the stairs, and emerging on theroad at the start of the existing ramp.
ROAD: direct exposure to the debris
management process.
BC: existing ramp to ascend the hill.
Path from C is determined by landscape and ecological constraints.
Program.
PHASE 2: PARTIAL
AS: Access follows the original pilgrimage route to the Shrine. No turn away
at point A.
AB: may or not be used as a secondary access.
SD: using an existing path that leads tothe edge of the scar.
ROAD: overlooking the landﬁll processfrom above.
DB: connection DY, DX or DC depending on the progression of the landﬁll.
process and community preferences.
Path from C is evolving according topeople’s needs and the deﬁned landscape and ecological constraints.
PHASE 3: COMPLETE
The access to the hill can stay thesame as in phase 2 (DC) or change.
AB: ereased access
E5: possibility of a new access.
Path from C keeps transforming (addor take away connections, intersections)

REDRAWING THE COASTLINE

Redrawing the coastline to bring sea
and people together preserving theexisting marine diversity and intensifying portuary activity and market.
North of Edo lowland landﬁll creating asafer, higher ground for x use.
Edo Road as a pedestrian coastalboulevard.
Questions:-capacity:
600 boats in Utatsu Bay
nº in Isatomae?
nº in Tomorihama (2nd largest)-original coastline-artiﬁcial land material-where does the removed land
go to? are we creating moredebris?
-safety assesment on debris forestuarine environment