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 Shohei Matsukawa, Fumio Matsumoto, Akira Wakita Infotube Japan 2000 The Industrial revolution drove people and goods into the cities and gave birth to forms of new cities and architecture. The Information revolution accelerates the flow of people and information into the network, and is creating a new electronic social space (or cyberspace). Buildings and cities in the real space can not move into the information space. But the concept of them can. “Infotube” is the reconstruction of the real townscape (shopping streets in Yokohama, Japan) as a cyberspace architecture in an entirely different form. Visitors to “Infotube” can cruise around a new information space reconfigured into the cylindrical tube. This Tube is covered with lots of rectangular ‘cells’ a minimum unit of information, on which various images and texts are displayed. Visitors can interact with these cells, get detailed information, and upload their own messages to the cells. It is also proposed to place “Live Cells" on the city streets, by which the real space can have close interactions with cyberspace. Information is not distributed hierarchically as in the typical web pages, but simultaneously and randomly on the Tube. So visitors can overlook information at one time without browsing deeper layers of the site. By spatializing and visualizing information, visitors in cyberspace can recognize information more intuitively, just as when they are viewing landscapes. Shohei Matsukawa is an architect and the co-founder of 000 Studio in Tokyo. After obtaining his B. Arch from Science University of Tokyo, he has collaborated with Fumio Matsumoto in most of his competition works. Matsukawa established 000 Studio with his colleague Masayuki Kuramochin in 1999. They acted as creative directors of the Toyo Itoh's "Blurring Architecture" exhibition at Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Germany. They also collaborated with Riken Yamamoto for his installation in Venezia Biennale this year. Fumio Matsumoto is an architect and the principal of Plannet Architectures in Tokyo. After completing M Arch. in Wasada University, Matsumoto worked in Arata Isozaki & Associates for 10 years. There he came through with practical experiences on domestic and international projects. Since he established his own firm in 1997, he participated in various competitions of architecture and urban design, in many of which he won a prize. Since 1999 he set himself to the design of ‘cyber architecture’ in addition to conventional architecture. “Ginga” is the first product of this endeavour. It is a creation realising a visible landscape of normally invisible Internet information. “Infotube”, the following work, is the reconstruction of the real townscape as a cyberspace in an entirely different form and function. Matsumoto also presides over the Cyber Laboratory with professionals in other areas - architects, architectural magazine editors, computer network researchers, 3 dimension software programmers and high dimension space researchers. The Cyber Laboratory makes practical and interdisciplinary study of cyberspace. Matsumoto's current interests lie in the broad definition of architecture being constituted of cyber architecture emerging out into the real space. Akira Wakita is a doctor candidate at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University in Kanagawa, and is also working at Lattice Technology in Tokyo. Holding bachelor’s degree from Faculty of Environmental Information at Keio University, he has studied 3 dimension software technologies such as XVL. |
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