The room of the tunnel
Instinctive weirdness
The suggestion that there may be in the temporary stay place in the tunnel which was not used.
The depth of the tunnel is darkness. Light and the sound leave the few as advance to the depths and disappear. It is only had light and sound and sense of hands and feet that one's nerve is possible in a support in this limited world.
Therefore I become afraid that stay in, when I look back toward the entrance shining in the distance, the existence of the circumference is big, and my existence is felt small. It is the scary world that resembled the bottom of a deep well. However, at the same time there is the "As it is to be" comfort which cannot fight against a big thing. I think that there was such a place in many places in old days.
There are crowds wrapping up life and information to overflow to a screen. For us live by going out with such a thing, the fear that nothing has it, and understand nothing will be more than an old person.
The suggestion in here is the world that gave a little light and sounds to the darkness of the tunnel. There is a space such as the boundary line of fear and the beauty, and the place that I look hard, and listen carefully. The chilly air of the tunnel becomes the natural air conditioner if I come in the afternoon of the midsummer, and the voice of the far-off cicada or the coldness of a stone handed down to my body whet my sense.
Only with fluorescent paint and few lights of the luminous moss, the boom of footsteps to step on gravel, become the tool knowing the sense of distance of the sojourner. The only rule of the sojourner is ”not must talk".
The uneasiness and the fear that darkness includes, the comfort that the uneasiness includes, I made an image while thinking that want you feel them.
Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi
Design : 2007.07 - 2007.09
トンネルの部屋
本能的な不気味さ
使われなくなったトンネルを一時の滞在場所にできないかという提案.
トンネルの先は闇．奥へ奥へと進むにつれ光と音はわずかを残して消える．この限定された世界で自分の神経がよりどころにできるのは，残された光や音や手足の感覚だけだ．
だから，トンネルの奥に滞在しているとなんともいえない不安に襲われてくる．遠くに光る入口を振り返るとき，自分の存在が小さく，廻りの存在が大きく感じられる．それは深い井戸の底にも似た怖い世界だが，同時に，大きなものに抗えない「されるがままの」心地よさもある．昔はそんな場所がそこかしこに存在していたと思う．
生活を包み込む雑踏や画面に溢れる情報，そういうものと付き合って暮らす我々にとって，何にも無い，分からない怖さは，昔の人以上だろう．
ここで提案しているのは，トンネルの闇に，ほんの少しの光と音をプラスした世界だ．怖さと美しさのギリギリの境界線のような空間．自然と目を凝らし耳を澄ましてしまう場所．真夏の午後に訪れれば，トンネルのヒンヤリとした空気が天然の冷房となり，遠くの蝉の声や体に伝わる石の冷たさが感覚を研ぎ澄ましていく．
蛍光塗料とヒカリゴケのわずかな明かりと，玉砂利を踏む「ザクッザクッ」という足音の反響音だけが滞在者の距離感を計る道具となる．滞在の唯一つのルールは「しゃべってはいけない」こと．
闇の持つ不安や怖さ，さらにはその不安の中に存在すると思われる心地よさを，ここで感じ取ってもらえたらと考えながらイメージを作った．
担当 : 藤野高志
設計期間 : 2007.07 - 2007.09