Playing Camp in Beer Crate and Rocks
Children play camp – an upturned beer crate rocks, concrete and plants form a roaring campfire.
Materials: Beer Crate, Rocks, Concrete, Plants
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Step Up in Concrete Blocks
Over 1/2 a meter ‘step up’ to the front door eased with concrete slabs.
Influence of the ‘flat plot at all costs’ ethic in full effect.
Materials: Concrete
Location: Nagoya
Step-up in Breeze Blocks
Easier access step created with breeze block and concrete.
Materials: Breeze Block, Concrete
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
Curbside Garden Space in Concrete and Rocks
Garden space is created on the curb in front of a residential wall on a narrow street. The owner of the property did not want to encroach on the already scarce road space so she constructed a planter from rocks and concrete right on top of the curb. The limited volume of the created space necessitated hardy succulents (the owner noted that she had tried to grow other flowers but they didn’t work out). She was so confident of their hardiness that she picked a few off and offered them to me to take home. Fantastic!
When quizzed about the origins of the design, she confessed that she hadn’t seen the idea anywhere else – it just ‘popped’ into her head as a suitable solution.
Materials: Concrete, Rocks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Structure Support in Wire
The supporting post of the front door overhang braced up by wire secured to the ground by a nail in the concrete slab. Poured concrete addition to stabilze.
Materials: Wire, Nail, Concrete
Location: Ome, Tokyo
