Olympics are the quintessential of every amateur athlete who loves the sports they train for. It is an achievement few have the honor to be a part of. And with that we come to the law of inertia. Sir Isaac Newton was most famous of the his law of gravitation. Deriving from his findings the focus here was on Newton first law; an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by and unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by and unbalanced force.

In response to Tokyo winning the bid and be the host for the 2020 Olympic Games, it was fundamental to look back to Newton and reference to the law of inertia. Because, the games usually last for such a short time (roughly around 2 weeks) around the month of August. The new Olympic Park needed to refer to the short amount of time this area would be in used.

Throughout the design process, a close of detail went to focus on the landscape itself to fit the needs for what is to happen after the games are over. This gave way for artificial landscape that replaced conventional typology of arenas and stadiums and used the newly design land to show the way as to what areas were private and public. By using a grid pattern of pillars, and the pillars shaping and converging together to form programmatic areas. The entire field became one with pockets that could be recognize as place for sport.

Project Type

Sport Facility

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Awards

Publication in Pratt Institute - Graduate InProcess 23 (Cover Page)

Status

Conceptual

Designer

José Gutierrez

photography

José Gutierrez