Urban Intervention Seattle Center Competition Proposal / Hoshino Architects: c Hoshino ArchitectsWith a challenge to make a series of random ephemeral public spaces using a simple structure in the Seattle Center, the intervention by Hoshino Architects proposes areas of such spaces to be transformed to voids and purely leave the circulation spaces on the ground level. In contrast, the public contents circles are randomly scattered on the field level. As normal urban spaces, the circulation spaces sometimes change to unexpected functions, such as a viewing gallery for the event staged at the field level. This dual layer structure intertwines and creates the complex Porous-scape. More images and architects description after the break.c Hoshino ArchitectsIn the 20th century, public space had a symbolic order. The development of social networking services in the 21st century allowed people to create public spaces on the Internet. One of significant movements of recent years is the political movement of SNS and people that occupied the 20th Century type public spaces. People are not wandering around, but meeting with purpose. Such spaces do not need form and large open spaces to function as gathering spaces.c Hoshino ArchitectsWhat is a meaningful public space for the coming century? There are hints in the virtual public spaces on the Internet. The virtual public spaces are sometimes voids and can suddenly change to occupy large circles of people with variety of contents. The random ephemeral spaces repeating, emerging and disappearing without having certain form attracts people. The public space in the real city needs to change along with the virtual spaces.c Hoshino ArchitectsThe first step is to separate the ground level to circulation and field level containing the contents. The ground level circle spaces are transformed to voids and circles with public contents are randomly scattered on the field level. This dual layer structure makes the Porous-scape. The voids and circles intertwine and create complexity of random ephemeral spaces repeating, emerging and disappearing. The Porous-scape provides the ephemeral public spaces and attracts people.c Hoshino ArchitectsSiteIn the Seattle Center, the buildings are located following the urban grid of the typical 20th Century order. The contents of the buildings have rich variety from culture to sports and education. The intervention site is located at the heart of the Seattle Center and linking the Central House Zone with the monorail station to the Theater District Zone. The intervention of the 21st century type random public spaces at the heart of the Seattle Center shuffle the visitors and accelerate the interaction of the existing rich contents. This creates the attractive urban spaces.c Hoshino ArchitectsConnectivityIf you have a question, you only need to click several times to find the answer on the Internet. At the same time, you will meet items relating to the question. Sometimes people meet each other sharing the same question. Suddenly a public space emerges on the Internet. People are attracted by such accidental encounters. This intervention has a complex circulation linking people. It has a different character from the simple routing circulation with short cuts. The visitors can choose any available route.