#220430 Metabolism

Some roads end to allow us to create new ones.

I am glad to be offered the opportunity to participate in master planning, which I started by recollecting thoughts and memories. First thing I remembered was that I was hopeless in school, especially at this scale. Secondly, I loved Metabolism truly, madly and deeply. It was unfortunate that these two coming together meant naïve proposals met with ridicule, like re-using abandoned port infrastructure for a new moving hotel (pun intended).

I still feel that I can design that hotel someday, and it will be a beautiful experience for users.

15 years after leaving school, I only start to understand architecture and now, master planning. At the same time, I know I probably do not understand it yet. (5 years ago, I first thought I have finally started to understand it but in retrospect that naivety is amusing.)

At this age, I come to terms with my lack of aptitude in this field. At the same time, I marvel at how my peers grasped these disciplines so early in school. Yet now, I am still struggling. Somehow, that feels like the spirit of Metabolism at work.