Shin Egashira is an artist, architect and educator based in London.
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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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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.