STEPPING STONE

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project title: Stepping Stone
project subtitle: an outdoor platform for a disused elementary school for locals, visitors and cyclists
project description: Summer School Workshop in Architecture
author: Anouk Ahlborn, Fumiyo Yada, Daria Gavilova, Theclalin Cheung, Reishin Watabe
course: AA Visiting School 2014: Koshirakura Landscape Workshop + Tokyo
collaboration: Maeda Architects
brief: Landscape Project and The City After-Image, Thomassons
programme head: Shin Egashira
place/year: Japan, Niigata: Koshirakura Village, 2014.
format: phyisical model, 1 to 1 installation, on-site construction
material: Japanese red cedar, in situ concrete formwork, local stone and pebbles, Japanese Persimmon dyed wood , water
content: site measurement, landscape study, site and architecture model, furniture study,
content: working drawings, platform formwork design, ground leveling, on-site construction
process: assembly, engawa platform, excavation, reinforcement, memory capsule
acknowledgement: with special thanks to Shin and Carolina and the team members!



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