Shin Egashira is an artist, architect and educator based in London.
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flat elephant
In this installation, we wished to make an elephant walk around the Space R. It is a surface representation of our city. Its elusive, and expansive body is described by different kinds of technologies. Communication gadgets deliberately left incomplete are combined with float glass, timber beams, pebbles and steel angles that give the elephant its weight. Computers, microcontrollers, industrial motors, speakers and sensors reconstitute its nervous system creating a new set of relationships in the name of City elephant.
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slow box after image
The project was created for the first Tsumari International Art Triennial in 2000 intended to make linkage between 7 towns of Tsumari District. It required the construction of an over-sized camera vehicle (Slow Box) and an archive space…
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beauty of our pain
“Beauty of Our Pain” is the installation composed of reconstructed fitness machines which would not have looked out of place in the Middle Ages. They represent fitness and the act of confession; the extraction of beauty through pain.
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muxagata building workshop
Muxagata, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, is a small village situated along the Coa River, near the Portuguese/Spanish border at the eastern end of the Douro River 120km from the city of Port, Foz Côa region, known for its…
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twisting concrete workshop
The workshop looks at experimenting with materials and design techniques. The work had two stages: first research on the potentials of the technique of casting double curvature surfaces in concrete. Second stage was to design and produce a piece using the…
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koshirakura landscape workshop
In 1996 I held the first architectural summer workshop in Koshirakura village, Japan. This soon became an annual event in the local calendar and coincided with Koshirakura’s traditional Maple Cutting Festival. Participants were drawn from the AA
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urban toys for AAFAB
Urban Toys are furniture pieces made out of fibrocement. The form and function of each piece is customized in response to specific situations. They can exist as single units or combined together. Every individual piece is unique and they all…
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playground
This Playground is part of the Playgrounds and Toys project by Art for the World, an NGO that invites artists to contribute their art around the world. This playground was proposed for the community affected by the…
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impossible vehicle
Constructing solid and tangible that speaks about something transparent and fragile is the nature of these machines from them, the relationships between the body, material things and landscapes flow altering into a poetic enclosure.
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bed machine
Bed Machine (aka sex machine) was constructed over the period of 14 months between 1991 and 1992 by piecing together debris of the city collected from the streets of London.
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fish cabinet
Fish Cabinet belongs to a family of Objects Viewed from the Erased City.
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suitcase camera slow box #2
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aso aguricultural park
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kahoku cho water bridge
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throw away stone
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yamagata farm conversion
The Yamagata Farming Estate in the Tochigi prefecture was established 100 years ago and now lies in neglected ruins. The aim of this project is to rearrange the existing texture of the landscape by cultivating artworks to form new ground…
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kawanishi urban phasing
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twisting concrete (furniture) #2
A family of furniture was created at Hooke Park over two sessions in spring/summer 2009, exploring various forms of furniture with the applied notion of minimal surface. Design research includes alternative uses fiberglass -reinforced concrete (GRC), plaster-fabric open cast formworks using steel tubing to be integrated to the product.