Vertical Yoyogi park

Yoyogi Park is one of largest public parks in Tokyo, opened in 1967 after serving as the Olympic Village in 1964, and before that, as a residential area for US military personnel. Today Yoyogi Park features wide lawns, ponds and forested areas. It is a place for many types of outdoor activities, such as jogging, performance, blossom-viewing, picnic, instrument rehersal, role-playing games, walking dogs and it even shelters some groups of orderly homeless people.

 

Yoyogi Park is roughly divided into two faces; the Meiji-jingu Shrine, located in the deep forest, where you are restricted to walk on the forest path, and the open park where you can wander freely and do leisure activities. 

 

I wish to investigate in further detail how this park works and what types of people and activities there are here, so that I can trace the essence of what people values from such a large and open public space in Tokyo. Maybe the essence or the concept of Yoyogi Park can happen somewhere else, but take a different form?

 

Some of the main spots in Yoyogi Koen

What happens if a vertical Yoyogi Park appears? Is there a need for such a vertical space? What can it look like?