| Title |
Social Implementation of Process-Centered Architecture in Toyo Ito’s ‘Home-for-All’ Project - Focusing on the Project in Rikuzentakata Area After the Great East Japan Earthquake - |
| Authors |
박상현(Park, Sang-Hyun) ; 박찬일(Park, Chan-Il) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2026.35.2.128 |
| Keywords |
Process-Centered Architecture; Social Implementation; Home-for All; Toyo Ito |
| Abstract |
Modern and contemporary architecture has developed around formal completeness and functional efficiency; however, this result-oriented approach has exposed inherent limitations, including the severance of communal ties, a disconnect from users’ needs, and the absence of architects’ social accountability. This study aims to reinterpret architecture not as a result-oriented act of creation but as a process-centered social practice, examining its meaning through Toyo Ito’s “Home-for-All” project realized after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The study adopts a qualitative case-study approach. The entire process of the project?from planning and design to construction and operation?is analyzed using Ito’s writings, project documents, drawings, interviews, and related literature. The analysis is structured along four axes: the value of architecture, the transformation of agency in architectural practice, the architect’s social role, and the shift in architectural discourse. First, the value of architecture is redefined not by the completed form but as the totality of interactions and collaborative relationships formed throughout the process. Second, as agency expands from professionals to diverse participants, users become co-creators, supporting the recovery of communal identity. Third, the architect’s role shifts from autonomous creator to mediator, facilitator, and co-creator. Fourth, this practice suggests the potential for a discursive shift?from form to process, from originality to collaboration, and from aesthetic completeness to social practice. Despite the limitations of a small-scale, post-disaster project, the study provides a basis for redefining the social role of architecture and reorienting practice toward community recovery. |