shin egashira

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.

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…

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.

muxagata building workshop

Muxagata, Vila Nova de Foz C�a, 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 C�a region, known for its…

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…

koshirakura landscape workshop

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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…

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…

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.

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.