ARTBAY TOKYO

This is an urban development project based in the waterfront subcenter area. It aims to connect five areas and a vast city of over 440 hectares through art, and to enhance its appeal. For the first project, architect Motosuke Bandai was invited to design a pavilion called ARTBAYHOUSE. The pavilion was created with the concept of "architecture that embraces the 'nature' that is unique to this place," and the architecture itself is an experiential work of art that changes as it is enveloped in the ever-changing natural world of light, wind, rain, and plants, and at the same time, it is a space that serves as a base for various art and urban development projects. There is also a cafe inside, and pets are allowed inside.
This space allows people, plants, animals, insects and other elements of "nature" to all live comfortably, and is a place where you can experience unprecedented innovation that questions the future of cities and spaces.


[Social issues/customer issues/requests]
Although the waterfront subcenter area has all the basic urban functions, each building and road is large in scale, and there was a lack of comfortable outdoor spaces for people to spend time in. Also, although there are many natural attractions not found in the city center, such as ocean views and wide skies, these attractions were not being fully utilized.


[Solution]
1. To create a human-scale place where people can gather and feel comfortable as a starting point for urban development.
2. Content that has the power to attract and convey information that makes people want to visit
3. Carry out experimental programs that are unique to the waterfront subcenter area
With these three themes as the core of the project, we aimed to realize an art project unique to this area that would respond to the challenges facing the town while presenting new value.


<Our project members>
[Sales/Project Management] Etsuro Ito, Reiko Ibe
[Research and planning] Taku Sugimoto, Tomoko Yokota, Mina Mochizuki