2024.12.23
Yudai Enomoto, a fourth-year student in the Faculty of Policy Management and a member of Professor Hiroto Kobayashi's Laboratory at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, has won the Grand Prize at the 3rd Student Project Design Competition.
The Student Project Design Competition is an award sponsored by the Japan Management Association and the HEAD Research Institute. It calls for proposals that aim to solve social issues through design, requiring participants to define everything from the problem statement to the site, use, and operating body. Held as an official award within the "Japan Home & Building Show 2024," a housing and architecture exhibition, this third competition invited entries under the theme "A Community Hub for Everyone."
After a public presentation by the top six finalists selected from 51 entries and a review by a panel of five architects, Mr. Enomoto's work, "Kenchiku Yatai" (Architectural Stall), was chosen for the Grand Prize.
"Kenchiku Yatai" is a proposal for a street-based architectural workshop. It focuses on the communities that emerge from user- and resident-participatory architecture and space creation (from design to construction). The project involves creating a stall as a tool to allow more people to experience participatory architecture and building a system to expand the act of "creating" at the citizen level. The project was praised for its novel approach to architectural workshops and the potential for its future development.
Comment from Yudai Enomoto
In the future, I hope to see the autonomous act of "creating space" emerge within the community and aim to implement this project as an infrastructure to support it.
Updates on the stall are available here: https://x.com/kenchiku_yatai. I plan to post demonstration experiments and reports there, and I also hope to exhibit it on campus at SFC, such as on the endores student bookshelf. I would be grateful to receive frank impressions and opinions from students, faculty, and staff, including those outside of architecture.
I would also like to thank the faculty members involved, including those in my lab, the manager of DFF-W, and my peers who joined me for discussions at the lab's dinner table and late at night at Gulliver Pond (Kamoike) while I was staying on campus. Thank you for your continued support.
This project has been supported by a grant for undergraduate students at Keio SFC (Spring 2024 semester call, Educational Encouragement Fund "Study and Research Grant") and an incubation subsidy from the ASIBA General Incorporated Association.
Photo: Ryoya Namigata
Issued by: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office