Design No. 292 : Tokyo National Stadium Independent Design Bid
atelier ying, nyc.
With New York City on the verge of dominating the world with a real estate tycoon US Presidential candidate, there's no reason not to continue in this over-the-top mode and send a nice redesign bid for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
The main consideration was a pleasing nod to Japanese characteristics, which this design tries in a humble of way to implement. The Japan of modern times as well as of traditional aesthetics are both referenced indirectly through an application of American pop culture. This multi-layered approach is endemic to our design philosophy and our belief is that this sleight-of-hand design might penetrate further to make a wow-factor to the public.
The popular idea of a periodic (the Olympics occur every few years in some city on this globe) crash landing of an alien spaceship, in this instance a friendly American one, references the USS Starship Enterprise whose main saucer and nacelles can be seen from the outskirts of the Japanese capital, as well as from within.
We love the designs of architects Kengo Kuma, Zaha Hadid and Toyo Ito, but can we just be honest for a moment and see that these types of designs are really all about flying saucers making a large crater in the middle of the city with circulation routes.
The iconic starship has been in our consciousness for decades now and is something that will be with us going forward no matter what we do so instead of fighting this desire we might as well feel empowered and fully enjoy being inside it. The port and starboard side nacelles could even be medium-sized airport terminals for sports people and after the Olympics perhaps casino people if such zoning was possible.
The Enterprise saucer shape is excavated deeper into the ground (as if it really crashed) than the other three designs, creating the symbol of a Japanese tea bowl.
Greenery inside rather than outside the stadium would fill the air with the natural smell of tea leaves.
The views from inside the stadium will be truer deep space experiences, and the excavated backfill will simply remain onsite saving greatly in construction costs. This "splash" of landfill will be covered by a top layer of sand, like a Japanese Zen garden, yet it will look from a distance like a massive and gorgeous golf bunker of the quality of the Bethpage Black Championship course of Long Island NY, once home to the U.S. Open. Of course, the only person who could create such a masterpiece spectacle of golf is Donald Trump, who could probably get the construction phases streamlined better than any other team could, and most importantly he can have it all ready and on schedule for the Olympics.
The actual bridge of the starship would be a small set of prime real estate spaces (atelier ying can be gifted the smallest of them, practically a closet) reached by a tiny sky bridge, the kind from where you could get vast views of incoming Klingon Battle Cruisers.
The opening ceremonies could truly now take place in a very modernistic Star Trek Federation arena. Space ship displays of Olympic fires as the raising of starship shields, phasers and other lightworks firing into the sky, etc., one's imagination can see no limits because this is all taking place within the iconic vehicle that spawned much of today's futuristic architectural designs to begin with. I'm sure vast amounts of investment capital from baby boomer Star Trek fans would pose no problem at all. Maybe I can win a free trip to Tokyo for general design research and to finally find for myself a website designer.
This design is dedicated to George Takei, maybe he'll like my 100% software-free drawings.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2015 by David Lo.
Design No. 292 : Tokyo National Stadium Independent Design Bid
atelier ying, nyc.
With New York City on the verge of dominating the world with a real estate tycoon US Presidential candidate, there's no reason not to continue in this over-the-top mode and send a nice redesign bid for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
The main consideration was a pleasing nod to Japanese characteristics, which this design tries in a humble of way to implement. The Japan of modern times as well as of traditional aesthetics are both referenced indirectly through an application of American pop culture. This multi-layered approach is endemic to our design philosophy and our belief is that this sleight-of-hand design might penetrate further to make a wow-factor to the public.
The popular idea of a periodic (the Olympics occur every few years in some city on this globe) crash landing of an alien spaceship, in this instance a friendly American one, references the USS Starship Enterprise whose main saucer and nacelles can be seen from the outskirts of the Japanese capital, as well as from within.
We love the designs of architects Kengo Kuma, Zaha Hadid and Toyo Ito, but can we just be honest for a moment and see that these types of designs are really all about flying saucers making a large crater in the middle of the city with circulation routes.
The iconic starship has been in our consciousness for decades now and is something that will be with us going forward no matter what we do so instead of fighting this desire we might as well feel empowered and fully enjoy being inside it. The port and starboard side nacelles could even be medium-sized airport terminals for sports people and after the Olympics perhaps casino people if such zoning was possible.
The Enterprise saucer shape is excavated deeper into the ground (as if it really crashed) than the other three designs, creating the symbol of a Japanese tea bowl.
Greenery inside rather than outside the stadium would fill the air with the natural smell of tea leaves.
The views from inside the stadium will be truer deep space experiences, and the excavated backfill will simply remain onsite saving greatly in construction costs. This "splash" of landfill will be covered by a top layer of sand, like a Japanese Zen garden, yet it will look from a distance like a massive and gorgeous golf bunker of the quality of the Bethpage Black Championship course of Long Island NY, once home to the U.S. Open. Of course, the only person who could create such a masterpiece spectacle of golf is Donald Trump, who could probably get the construction phases streamlined better than any other team could, and most importantly he can have it all ready and on schedule for the Olympics.
The actual bridge of the starship would be a small set of prime real estate spaces (atelier ying can be gifted the smallest of them, practically a closet) reached by a tiny sky bridge, the kind from where you could get vast views of incoming Klingon Battle Cruisers.
The opening ceremonies could truly now take place in a very modernistic Star Trek Federation arena. Space ship displays of Olympic fires as the raising of starship shields, phasers and other lightworks firing into the sky, etc., one's imagination can see no limits because this is all taking place within the iconic vehicle that spawned much of today's futuristic architectural designs to begin with. I'm sure vast amounts of investment capital from baby boomer Star Trek fans would pose no problem at all. Maybe I can win a free trip to Tokyo for general design research and to finally find for myself a website designer.
This design is dedicated to George Takei, maybe he'll like my 100% software-free drawings.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2015 by David Lo.