OKAIKEN, A CHRONICLE
Okaiken version 4 is the current version of the journal. The fourth journal explores current interactions of people within the environment as well as expanding on ideas of how cities should function.
XXXV - A SANESE AUTUMN, PART II
Tonight, we come back at Okaiken's Street Scene, but at nighttime.
"It's 8pm. Aren't you coming home yet?" Asked a woman on the telephone. "Not yet," said a person on his office. Just a few more documents to do and I'll be home soon. Oyasuminasai. |
XXXIV - A SANESE AUTUMN, PART I
Good Morning, Okaiken, today is Tuesday, November 1. Isn't it beautiful day with all of those fog lingering in the city? It will stay with us until the afternoon when the sun evaporates all of those fog. The forecast for the city will be bleak so enjoy the sun while it lasts. Today, we are going to give you a quick round around the waterfront district, where preparations for the New Years' Eve party are already underway. Check back in the end of this program to see if your favourite artist is going to play this year!
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XXXIII - TOYOZAWA NO MINATO
Today, we are in Toyozawa 豊沢, Okaiken's second largest city. We will explore possible urbanisms within the context of Toyozawa's maritime history as well as explore numerous precedents within the city to understand the dynamism and the differences between different strata of the urban landscape. First, we visit the fishing port at the eastern end of the port. While a larger container terminal had replaced most of the historical dwellings in the area, these still manage to assimilate with the surroundings. Currently there is a movement to preserve some of these houses.
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XXXII - HIGHER GROUND
At some forest southwest of Okami 大紙, lies a river that runs straight to the ocean. Its journey had started in the mountains where high summer temperatures melt the last season's snow... Now you may have seen the city before, but it is not perfect. It is also ridden with crime, extortion, sex, and drugs. The buildings are tagged daily; and a burgeoning rap culture began in the city about 10-15 years ago. Today, it had been quite popular with the younger generation, which sees S-pop as being too old and directed towards adults.
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XXXI - REFLECTION
All the mighty becomes the very weak,
All the giants become the poor midgets, All the living became the putrid dead. It becomes the unforgivable truth... This is where the true life begins the new fire. |
XXX - THE RICE KINGDOM
Ii Naotaka had arrived in Ninohe 二戸, a small town of 3,000 people. It had the most basic of services: Fire station, high school, railway station, supermarkets, you name it. The town was on the centre of the so-called "inaka", offering no glimpse of the urban typologies that had defined Okaiken. In context, farms dominate the landscape; old, worn-down homes are prevalent, and there is no asphalt in sight aside from the yet unopened highway section....
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