This competition sought a wide range of ideas for a “new Tsurukawa station” in 2018 under the theme “Everyone’s hopes and dreams will create a new Tsurukawa station.”
It became a groundbreaking ideas competition, as it involved not only the design of the station building, but a design of the community created by the station together with the station building, including ways to use the station and concepts on communities stemming from the station.
In this Station Utilization Ideas Division, the challenge was coming up with “events that you’d like to hold, or have held at Tsurukawa station and its surrounding areas (the station plaza, or open spaces in commercial facilities)” and “ideas that would make you feel happier about Tsurukawa station”.
Why Tsurukawa station will become fun in 2030
While it is predicted that the population of Tokyo’s suburban cities will decline toward 2030, and cities will shrink, there will be more diversity in lifestyles including working environments due to the popularization of new technologies such as self-driving cars and lower barriers to participating in society for a wide range of ages.
Tsurukawa station is conveniently near to central Tokyo, but has been long been loved by literary greats, and is a culturally refined location with a rich natural environment. What Tsurukawa station needs going forward is to support the diversity of the “people living near Tsurukawa station,” and create places where they feel they belong as individuals within the town and the station -- for those who will still be attracted to Tsurukawa station in 2030 when lifestyles become diversified, and belong to multiple communities that are appropriately close and not bound by local relations. For this, we believe that giving the station, the symbol of the town, part of the functions of “the ideal lifestyle that they wish they had at home,” and adding the value of real-world encounters between people, can be one solution.
TEXT by Masako Maeshiro
15 Ideas for Tsurukawa Station as a Hub in the Sharing Economy
MY GUEST ROOM
MY CAFÉ TERRACE
MY LIVING
My LOCKER
Share accommodation space at the station for honored guests.
Share accommodation space at the station for honored guests.
Share a space at the station where you can read, write, and converse with friends.
Share a space at the station where you can read, write, and converse with friends.
Share a place at the station where everyone can drop by, whether or not they have a purpose.
Share a place at the station where everyone can drop by, whether or not they have a purpose.
Use the shared space at the station on a regular basis by having your storage space at the station.
Use the shared space at the station on a regular basis by having your storage space at the station.
MY OFFICE
MY NURSERY SCHOOL & CHILDREN CARECENTER
MY CARSHARING
MY KITCHEN
Share a work space at the station that you can use freely at any time and exchange information.
Share a work space at the station that you can use freely at any time and exchange information.
Share the location and services needed for raising children at the station.
Share the location and services needed for raising children at the station.
Share cars at the station, since the station is the hub for transportation.
Share cars at the station, since the station is the hub for transportation.
Share the tools and the space for cooking, as well as mealtime, with everyone at the station.
Share the tools and the space for cooking, as well as mealtime, with everyone at the station.
MY GARDEN
MY LIBRARY & STUDY
MY MEETING ROOM & PARLOR
MY STAGE
Share a place at the station where everyone can gather and commune with nature.
Share a place at the station where everyone can gather and commune with nature.
Share the new worlds that books open up with everyone at the station.
Share the new worlds that books open up with everyone at the station.
Share a space at the station where you can invite guests or have important conversations.
Share a space at the station where you can invite guests or have important conversations.
Share a place at the station where you can express yourself and have everyone see.
Share a place at the station where you can express yourself and have everyone see.
My FARM & REFRIGERATOR
MY ATELIER
My STUDIO & MUSIC ROOM
Share a place to grow food and the harvest with everyone.
Share a place to grow food and the harvest with everyone.
Share the large space and tools needed for creative work at the station.
Share the large space and tools needed for creative work at the station.
Share a music studio at the station where you can produce sound without constraint.
Share a music studio at the station where you can produce sound without constraint.
