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Toyo Ito + Kumiko Inui + Sou Fujimoto + Akihisa Hirata
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- Following the earthquake, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima, Hiroshi Naito, and Rikien Yamamoto formed the volunteer group "Kishin no Kai. They advocated the need for "a base for people who have lost their homes and jobs in the disaster area to get back on their feet and recover their new lives," and together with young architects, they constructed "Minna no Ie" in various locations. In Rikuzentakata, Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sousuke Fujimoto, and Akihisa Hirata collaborated to build a meeting place with various heights of raised floors, using cedar logs that had died in the tsunami as pillars. The construction process was exhibited at the Japan Pavilion of the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture, where it won the Golden Lion for best pavilion since 1996. In the meantime, as an architectural network for reconstruction assistance, "ArchiAid" was established by architects based in Sendai, in addition to Hitoshi Abe, to share the situation, provide appropriate human resources, and implement projects in areas that are beyond the reach of the government. This was an opportunity for the project to be seen as a real problem, and for architecture to be able to do what it can do.
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