Dog Enclosure in Wire Rack and Breeze Block
The dog has the run of the yard – kept in check with wire racks on the gate and a breeze block for stability.
Materials: Wire Rack, Breeze Block
Location: Nagoya
No Parking/Private Parking in Cones and Junk
Keeping a section of the curb car free (or permanently reserving a parking spot for the local ‘boss’) is carried out with the use of concrete junk, traffic cones and barriers.
Material: Concrete, Traffic Cone, Traffic Barrier
Location: Nagoya
Storage/Security in Wood Planks
Storage/Barrier constructed from wood planks on sloping street (courtesy of Tokyo-based designer Edith Prakoso)
Materials: Wood
Location: Nogizaka, Tokyo
Support and Barrier
A construction of traffic cones and barriers held together with wire and plastic twine supports an old awning and cordons off the unused shop front.
Materials: Plastic Twine, Wire, Traffic Cones, Traffic Barriers,
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
No Parking in Cones, String
Traffic cones and barriers prevent parking in Shibuya side street. Flexibility (length, getting around power poles) provided by using string in place of rigid barrier poles.
Materials: Traffic Cones, String
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Display/Signalling Chair
Chair used to signal location of store, and display products…as well as possibly discouraging parking.
Materials: Chair
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
No Parking Chair
Chair + Sign = ‘Official’ No Parking Zone in Shibuya side street.
Materials: Chair, Stock Sign
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Barrier Secured with LAN Cable
A roadside barrier is held together with a LAN cable. I’m still not clear on the purpose of this barrier, however. I think it is to discourage bicycle parking, as seems to be the function of most ‘official’ barriers in the area.
Materials: LAN Cable
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Lunchtime Signage Over Railing
Signs advertising local restaurants lined up and stabilized over pedestrial railing. A system which also keeps them off the thoroughfare. Stabilized with tape and string.
Materials: Railing, String, Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Trained Creeping Fence
Using many metres of plastic twine, a local coffee shop owner has trained a flowering creeper up and down both sides of the paved lane outside their shop.
Even though seemingly random, the complex web of twine takes a non-trivial amount of time, thought and effort to construct.
The web has been prepared to guide an independent creeper along the fence line of a vacant lot, creating a lush green waist high curtain.
I especially like the way the corners have been densely woven (images 8,9,10), enabling thick growth and thus a cool and shady habitat for insects, cats and other animals.
Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
Keeping it together in rope
Residential fence held together with a length of rope. In a neighbourhood bordering a new subdivision.
Materials: Rope
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Potplant Boundary Setting
Pot plants outside a suburban residential office demarcate parking space, prevent cyclist curb-cutting (safety), set the limits of the official office zone of use, and beautify.
Materials: Pots
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
Gate in Wire and Rope
Rope barrier/gate reinforced, strengthened and given weight (helps stop it swinging in the breeze) with wire wrapped around its length.
Materials: Wire, Rope
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
No Thoroughfare
Upturned Coke crates signal “No Thoroughfare” between two parking areas.
Materials: Crate
Location: Kamogawa, Chiba
Poor Shot Protection in Netting
Plastic bamboo poles and netting are used to add height to a playground/creche fence to help prevent loose soccer shots from straying onto the road.
Materials: Netting, Plastic Pole
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Saftey Reflector at Intersection
At an Aoyama Dori intersection in Shibuya this reflector appears to act as a (not very effective from the amount of bashing it has taken) indicator of where the pedestrian saftey railing begins.
Materials: Reflector
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Parking Signage in Cone, Chain, Perspex etc….
Parking Full signage in constructed on a cone base. Handle in duct tape and shoelace. Sign in perspex frame, attached with bulldog clips and chain. Magnificent!
Materials: Cone, Chain, Shoelace, Clip, Perspex, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Don’t Come Through
PET bottles filled with water, a pot, a brick and a post all convey the message of the local residents to cars – “No Thoroughfare!”
Materials: PET Bottle, Pot, Brick, Post
Location: Nakano, Tokyo
Chain Storage in Hook and Tie
Entranceway chain storage performed by plastic hook and plastic twine.
Materials: Plastic Twine, Hook
Location: Harajuku, Tokyo
Fence Collage
Boundary fence constructed from a collage of sticks, poles, twine and bamboo.
Materials: Sticks, Poles, Twine, Bamboo
Location: Nakano-ku, Tokyo
Gate with Plastic Ties
Gateposts held together with plastic ties.
Materials: Plastic Ties
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Fence in Wire and Plastic Grill
Fence constructed from plastic grill affixed to concrete block reinforcing spikes and metal poles.
Materials: Wire, Plastic Grill
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Fence in Wire and Corrugated Iron
Corrugated iron sheets form a fence when affixed to metal reinforcing spikes. Plastic stakes fixed to the back provide extra stabilization.
Materials: Wire, Metal Spike, Plastic Stake
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Barrier in Rope and Wire
Rope barrier to workshop parking/storage area. Constructed from rope and wire. Wire is used in two ways: (1) To fashion a hook at one end to facilitate opening/closing of the barrier (2) To bind excess rope to the main barrier.
Materials: Wire, Rope
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
