A variety of reflective objects – bicycle reflectors, traffic safety triangles, reflective straps – are wired to a pole on a tricky corner.
Materials: bicycle reflectors, traffic safety triangles, reflective straps, wire
Location: Kamogawa, Chiba
Sponge breeze blocks affixed to concrete breeze blocks with string form a safety bumper for errant parkers.
Materials: Breeze Blocks, Sponge Breeze Blocks, String
Location: Kamogawa, Chiba
Upturned Coke crates signal “No Thoroughfare” between two parking areas.
Materials: Crate
Location: Kamogawa, Chiba
Tree in use as a storage system for outdoor cleaning implements.
Materials: Tree
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Ornamental gardening fence/demarcation constructed from metal rods topped with golf balls (for safety and decoration) and slim bamboo sticks – all threaded with rope and string. A cute judo wrestler surveys the scene.
Materials: Golf Balls, Golf Clubs, Metal Rods, Rope, String, Figurines
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Storing a watering can upside-down on the end of a spade makes it easy to find next time, and keeps the inside clean and dry.
Materials: Spade
Location: Hamura, Tokyo
Potplants secured top their precarious wall-top position with bricks.
Materials: Bricks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
A breeze block acts as simple and effective storage for a single baseball.
Material: Breeze Block
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Outdoor lightbox-type signage is supported and secured by bricks placed under and on top of the structure. One sign to six bricks.
Materials: Bricks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Plastic twine strung from the top an exterior spiral staircase to the fence below creates climbing structure for an asagao (Morning Glory). An interesting take on the classic balcony green curtain.
Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
A small tree outside a local sushi restaurant is trained away from the road with wire twisted around a pole and a larger tree.
Materials: Wire
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Helmets are stored on bushes outside the Okutama fire station/environmental agency. Probably helps dry off the sweat too.
Materials: Bush
Location: Okutama, Tokyo
Another entry in the “security or stabilization?” series..[e.g. 1], [e.g. 2].. This one looks as if it is secured to keep the tree from obstructing the front entrance.
Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Yanaka, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening.org)
A few bricks in the right place create a living and edible space out of dead in a Yanaka lane. Basil is fast growing and pretty hardy – great for an ad hoc spot of tasty green.
Materials: Bricks
Location: Yanaka, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
Constructed out of reclaimed wood this planter shell sits snugly around the oblong brown plastic planter which is ubiquitous in Tokyo and makes the curbside garden almost invisble to the casual glance.
Materials: Wood
Location: Yanaka, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
Unneeded refrigerator covered in plastic sheeting and secured with duct tape acts as potplant stand at the back of a building in Sendagaya, Tokyo.
Materials: Plastic Sheet, Duct Tape
Location: Sendagaya, Tokyo
Rubber gloves hung out to dry on hanging pegs attached to a gate in Sendagaya.
Materials: Pegs
Location: Sendagaya, Tokyo
A particularly aggressive brick wall covered in barbed wire between buildings Sendagaya, Tokyo. When all other adjacent walls are without this sharp alteration, it is hard to imagine what it’s purpose might be… Perhaps it is to deter intruders who intend to escape down the gap between the buildings, perhaps it is to deter stray cats…..
Material: Barbed Wire
Location: Sendagaya, Tokyo
