Storage for Umbrella
Secondary storage. Storing your umbrella on your bicycle means you are always weather-prepared.
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Secondary Storage in Bicycle Basket
Secondary storage. Shopping bags stored in bicycle basket.
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Secondary Storage: Bicycle Cover
Secondary storage. Bicycle cover is stored wrapped around parking port post when not in use.
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Coat Hanger Storage
Coat hanger on balcony fitting holds laundry net for storage.
Materials: Coat Hanger, Laundry Net
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Rubbish or Storage?
Plastic bags stuffed in gap in bicycle parking structure – rubbish or storage?
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Secondary Storage
Opaque balcony plates, rather than the usual metal grill create the (almost) perfect hiding/storage space for all that rubbish that you can’t be bothered throwing out. Secondary storage.
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Rubbish Center Library & Storage
Repurposed tv unit houses library of rescued reading material, and acts as storage space for cleaning tools and items that rubbish center workers want to keep for themselves.
Materials: Storage Items
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Storage and Fire Saftey
Fire extinguisher stored right in the most flammable area. Salvaged bath/shower stool put to use as stand.
Materials: Bath Stool
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Cardboard Box Recycling Tower
Cardboard box recycling tower constructed from salvaged metal rack and wood block for stabilization. Stool for reaching upper levels.
Materials: Metal Rack, Wood Block
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Disposing of Cardboard & Paper
Series of instructions regarding the disposal of paper and cardboard. Green laminated sign reads ‘paper’, hand written sign instructs residents to secure bundles of cardboard with string, typed sign notes instructions from the city.
Materials: Laminated Paper
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Recycling Station
Overview of can, glass bottle and plastic bottle recycling station. Full crates form structure and support for empty.
Cheerful handmade sign providing instruction on the correct way to recycle plastic bottles.
Materials: Plastic Crates, Coat Hanger
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Drying System for Rags
Clothes rack repaired with tape and repurposed as a drying + storage system for rags used by rubbish center staff.
Materials: Clothes Rack, Coat Hanger, Duct Tape, Bags
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Delicate Decoration/Cobbled Storage
Delicate decoration and cobbled together storage.
Materials: Wind Chime, Soap Holder
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Hose Storage
Functional adaption of park tree for maintenance equipment storage in a run-down apartment complex just off the high-fashion avenue of Omotesando.
Materials: Tree
Location: Off Omotesando, Shibuya, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening.org)
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
Sloping Bicycle Storage
“Which came first?” lovely bicycle storage under house on a slope (courtesy of Tokyo-based designer Edith Prakoso)
Location: Nogizaka, Tokyo
Umbrella Drying
Umbrella drying on a stairway railing (courtesy of Tokyo-based designer Edith Prakoso)
Materials: Stair Railing
Location: Itabashi-honcho, Tokyo