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Type: Competition//Project: Pavilion//Site: Tokyo, Japan
Prize: First Prize
Sports were a product of necessity. Ancient civilizations used sports as a preparation for events such as hunting or warfare. It challenges the typical human body and pushes the human’s limit by making people go through discomfort. However, in modern civilization, sports have become an auxiliary aspect of life. Most people do not want challenges for the body. Every product or item follows an ergonomic function to make us comfortable.
We try to challenge this ultra-comfortability of the human lifestyle by the introduction of non-ergonomic elements into existing infrastructures by making the human body uncomfortable in certain areas. These non-ergonomic interventions are all voluntary. When people start doing it, they will experience a change in their body behavior. With time, this behavior will influence other people to join and it will become a culture in itself and then more and more people will join in. Thus, a culture where both the human population and the human body will go through a change in behavior, “a body culture”, will form.