Portfolio Anju Kato

PORTFOLIO

Anju Kato

2020-2022

ANJU KATO

Exchange Program, ETH Zürich

HS 2022, Studio by Prof. Klumpler

FS 2023, Studio by Prof. Rossi and Gagliardi

M. Arch., Kyoto University

Researching ”The effect of space on human psychology” through the comparison of Japanese teahouses and Europian Cathedral

B. Arch., Kyoto University

Participated in competitions

Sandwich Inc. (Office by Nawa Kohei)

np45c1002@gmail.com

+41 76 243

Finalized 3 layouts of the exhibition in the new museum.

Collaborated on an artists’ team to realize an exhibition

Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office

Generated 10 drawings for construction documents for challenging designed housing. Proposed and selected as a new design for the terrace of the housing.

Kawai Architecture Office

Designed 3models and presented them at the client’s meeting

The Watanabe Foundation

1,500,000 JPY

Heyning-Roelli Foundation

4,000 CHF

Prof. Thomas Daniell

Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering Kyoto

VERTICAL CEMETERY

Kyoto University

Bachelor Diploma / 2021

Professor Tomas Daniell

Tokyo, Japan

Individual work

Visiting my grandfather’s cemetery for the first time was an unforgettable memory. He was interred in a vertical cemetery in the urban cemetery close to the city centre.

I take the lift and scan the card to the sensor, then his tombstone appeared automatically. This is a new form of cemetery becoming popular in Japan, due to the shortage of land and ease of maintenance. A cemetery is the place for people who have lesft this world and it can be said to be an extraordinary space to communicate with loved ones. The cemetery in which I went to visit my grandfather was not a suitable place for such a communion.

For my bachelor diploma project, I propose a new form of cemetery which fulfils the needs of citizens which allows for a special moment to visit with those we have loved.

A-A’, B-B’ mixed section

Once you get off the subway and wander into the station, you encounter the entrance toof the cemetery. As you walk along the long tunnel, you suddenly enterget into athe huge, underground, extraordinary space. Looking up, you can see the sky which makes you feel somehow connected to the one you loved.

Plan B1, B2, B3 S=1:1000

Going up along the slope, there are many holes in the wall. Each of them is someone’s gravecemetery. On the top floor, you can see the contrast between life and death gazing out overthrough the cemetery towardand the busy city. At night, the light from within the inner side of the cemetery comes out of the park.

PUBLIC KITCHEN ETHZ HS Studio / 2022

Professor Hubert Klumpner

Kigali, Rwanda

Individual work

The sanitation issues causes many diseases because of the water contamination in the unplanned settlements in of Kigali, Rwanda. This project aims to find one of the solutions to this by using biogas.

Collected bio- waste is put in the biogas reactors beside the health care centre and biogas which can be used for cooking and producing electricity for lighting is produced. The huge fabric tent which creates a public space also servesplays the role of a gas tank to store biogas, and this allows allowing people to use the gas anytime they want.

In the healthcare centre, people can learn how to cook nutritious dishes and they can also bringtake the bio- waste from their houses. This can also can be the place for social interaction betweenfor people, making it much and this is more than just a health care centre.

Issue

When you overlay two maps that show water contamination and population density, we can clearly see the correlation between themthese two. The intensely yellow part shows unplanned settlements; it is particularly and especially these parts that have serious water contamination, which causes many diseases among thefor people living there. One of the reasons for this relationship is the conditions of poor sanitation conditions within the unplanned settlements, particularly the issue of toilets and bodily wastethe toilette issue.

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1 Sanitation of Unplanned Settlements

Solution

Sanitation of Unplanned Settlements

Using a pit latrine for each house in unplanned settlements to collect bodily wastehumus later. Keeping the toilet clean allows for theit to prevention of water contamination.

Way to Collect Bio-wastes

Using vacuum trucks to collect biowaste from toilets in unplanned settlements. Construction of the infrastructure for trucks in unplanned settlements is necessary.

Biogas Generation for Cooking

The biogas reactor in the health care centre contributes torealises the reduction of waste, provides solutions for sanitation issues, and generates biogas for cooking. This will is going to be the place for social interaction through cooking and eating.

Making bricks using sludge from biogas reactors as the materialfuels. This enables the building of new Skat Houses for people living in unplanned settlements.

2 Way to Collect Bio-wastes

Flame retardant fabric

Iron pipe structure

Wooden platform

Bio gas Generator

Skat Houses from Bricks

4 Biogas Generation for Cooking

3 Skat Houses from Bricks

Cooking and Socail Interaction

Collected bio- waste is put in the biogas reactors beside the health care centre and biogas which can be used for cooking and lighting is produced. The huge fabric tent which creates public space also plays the role of a gas tank to store biogas whichand this allows people to use gas anytime they want. The pipe structure supporting the tent also works as the meansway for the gas to passgo through the space simultaneously. In the healthcare centre, people can learn how to cook nutritious dishes and they can also take the bio- waste from their houses. This also can be the place for social interaction for people and this is more than a mere health care centre.

Kyoto University 100th anniversary competition

‘Genes of the future city’ 2021

Miyazaki, Japan

Group work with Fuyu Saito, Takuto Tamura

The decline of local cities is obvious. Commercial buildings with no tenants, deserted arcades, eerily sprawling entertainment districts — some cities are dying in these hard times. This is a project to consider new forms of architecture that can lead to the revival of regional cities.

In one regional city, a bizarre scene is spreading. Prostitution, pachinko parlours, love hotels and other things that should have been located away from the town centre have appeared at the heart of the city, fed on desire and begun their spread. Instead, cultural facilities, shopping streets and department stores have disappeared. In our project, the spaces that appeared in the town centre that should not have been there are defined as ‘cancers’, and we have sought a mechanism to remove them from within the city centre.

そこに、街の免疫を高めるための 文化機能を備えた新たな建築を挿入

Local cities will be further hollowed out in the future. At that time, instead of completely demolishing buildings and clearing the land, could we consider existing buildings as fertile soil for which the next architecture can grow by partially reducing the existing infrastructure? This is our answer to the theme of the competition, ‘Genes of the future city’.

We made vacant stores into outdoorr spaces and removed some floors. Then, we put in new architecture which serves cultural functions, such as a museum, theatre, botanical garden, and so on. This is the intervention that is considered to “immunise” the city against such “cancers”.

RIVERSIDE AGRICULTURAL HOUSING

Kyoto University

Bachelor Studio / 2020

Professor Tomas Daniell

Kyoto, Japan

Individual work

When we think about new ways of living, living along the river is bold but with potential ideas. The awareness of sustainability is becoming popular, but what if you could eat the vegetables which you grow on your own plot of land just nearby? The riverside is a good place for farming as it provides easy drainage. On the other hand, in this modern society, interaction with neighbours is decreasing, especially in collective housing. This project tries to solve this problem by introducing urban farming.

With the organic shape which envelopes people, interaction occurs on the winding pathway, in the common space, on the farmland, and by the river. While walking back home, seeing the view of the river from the pathway and participating in agriculture, people casually talk and naturally help each other.

Plan 1F,3F S=1:100