I am now focusing on the Yotsuya area in Shinjuku ward, along the Shinjuku Dori. It shows typical urban patterns in Tokyo, such as the wide main street accompanied with tall, narrow buildings. Then there is the "urban village", small, low-rise residential buildings, narrow, quiet streets that naturally follows the curves of the existing topography.
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| Shinjuku Street, an eight lane road, separating the city blocks/"urban villages" |
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| By adding a new floor, about two stories high, the experience of the urban landscape transforms. Relative to the new floor, the roof of two-story buildings becomes the new ground floor, while the higher ones, penetrating the floor, defines new boundaries and spaces. |
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| How does a potenial new floor filter people from the busy main street to the small, quiet side streets? |
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