Silvia Angeli, Sophie Angrilli
Italy

The project is located in the southern part of Tokyo, Japan. The area is adjacent to Hamarikyu Gardens where the Skyscraper wants to stand out against the adjoining buildings. The project’s goal is to show and help the huge problem of high suicide’s rate among young people (6-24) in the city of Tokyo. This problem is affecting Japanese’s population for many decades; the origin of this vast problematic, according to our analysis, lies in the society itself. Individualistic culture, lack of people’s care and strong competition inside the educational system are driving young people to develop strong feelings of anxiety and pressure to stand out in order to gain a position in the world of work. The fear of failure is not challenged with the support of family and friends but, on the contrary, is repressed until becoming fatal. Indeed the day with the highest number of suicides is the first day of school. Moreover, Japanese’s culture has not a concept of soul as is known in occidental culture, so that suicide is seen as a solution and preferred to failure. That’s why the location of the building has also been chosen according to the distance with the main schools.

該項目位于日本東京的南部。該地區毗鄰Hamarikyu花園，摩天大樓希望在毗鄰的建筑物中脫穎而出。該項目的目標是展示和幫助東京市年輕人（6-24歲）的高自殺率問題。這個問題數十年來一直影響著日本人的生活。根據我們的分析，這個巨大問題的根源在于社會本身。個人主義文化，教育系統內部缺乏人們的關懷和激烈的競爭，正在推動年輕人形成強烈的焦慮感和壓力，以站在勞動世界的位置上脫穎而出。在家人和朋友的支持下，對失敗的恐懼不會受到挑戰，相反，它會受到壓制直到變得致命。事實上，自殺率最高的一天是上學的第一天。而且，日本的文化沒有西方文化中所知的靈魂概念，所以自殺被認為是解決問題的辦法，更傾向于失敗。這就是為什么建筑的位置也是根據與主要學校的距離來選擇的。

A PLACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 一個適合年輕人的地方
Our project wants to help this situation offering young people a place where they can freely develop their personal skills, even in the field of art, which is nearly not considered in the scholar system. The building has the function of community center; growing from the base through the length of the building, the different activities are distributed in opaque-glass-boxes. The center will give children the opportunity to meet new people and share their passions. This will eventually decrease the suicide’s rate.

我們的項目希望幫助這種情況，為年輕人提供一個可以自由發展個人技能的地方，即使在藝術領域，這在學者體系中幾乎沒有考慮到。該大樓具有社區中心功能; 從基地一直延伸到建筑物的整個長度，不同的活動分布在不透明的玻璃箱中。該中心將讓孩子們有機會結識新朋友并分享他們的激情。這最終會降低自殺率。

WOODEN MODULES 木制模塊
The second way we intend to help the problem is using the facade of our skyscraper to show the real suicide’s rate. Our intention is to assemble wooden-cube-module outside of the glass boxes, according to a fixed number calculated every year with the average of monthly suicides. These modules are mechanically assembled with an automate technology programmed with the live information of suicides’ rate. The modules have different sizes from the outside to the inside: they are outside related to the urban scale, and inside to the human one. The project will not give people just a hope for the future, it will give people a future.

我們打算幫助解決問題的第二種方式是使用摩天大樓的外墻展示真正的自殺率。我們的目標是按照每年計算的固定數量和每月自殺的平均值在玻璃盒外組裝木制立方體模塊。這些模塊采用自動化技術進行機械組裝，自動化技術以自殺率的實時信息進行編程。這些模塊從外部到內部都有不同的大?。核鼈兣c城市規模以外相關，內部與人類規模相關。該項目不會給人們未來的希望，它會給人們一個未來。