By working in contact with the students of the lab, I had the occasion to know and speak with other professors interested in the same case I was studying. In particular I got in contact with professor Hidenobu Jinnai, a professor of History, at the Hosei University, who, from that moment on, I regularly met to show him the work in progress analysis.

The workshop was an occasion to be introduced inside the university environment, what I did not expect was to discover another face of the Tokyo city that I was used to know. This was not my first time in Tokyo, and in Japan in general, I had already been there during the 1 “edition of the TTT workshop and when I was younger, I was used to follow my father in his working travels to Tokyo and Osaka. During the field excursion around in the historical districts that the workshop treated, I found myself discovering a completely different city from the one I was used to know. This was not made of the super-crowded roads of Shibuya, there were no neon-light advertisings on the skyscrapers of Shinjuku, which were all so different in details, but looked so similar. Here, just some blocks away from the major street, I could find a human-scale city, a smaller Tokyo, where a slower urban and social environment was apparently still alive. This became a turning point of my experience and from that moment on I decided to shift there the studies of my thesis, to focus my efforts on understanding this little fragment of the city, how they have survived on the redevelopments of the city, and how they could be a further alternative to the big scale Tokyo.

The Roji community

CHAPTER 3 - INFORMAL MEETING PLACES

Roji

Sento

CHAPTER 4 - NAGAYA

Nagaya

Relation between house and roji

CHAPTER 5 - THROUGH TIME

How the housing typologies have changed

New regulation and their effects

The social consequences

CHAPTER 7 - ROJI AS AN URBAN SOLUTION

Roji, an element to rediscover Edo-Tokyo

Roji and greenery | Bottom-up improvement of the city

CHAPTER 8-DESIGN

Site

Masterplan

CHAPTHER 9 - SMALLNESS, Remodelling the nagaya typologies

Catalog

Design

CHAPTER 10 - SHARING, New way of living in roji

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

Design

CHAPTER 11- PUBLIC SPACE, on the built frame / as open space

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