Archasm Tokyo Anti Library Contest, Japan Design Competition, Architect, Project
Archasm Tokyo Anti Library Competition
Architectural Contest in the Japanese Capital City –
30 Apr 2018
Archasm Tokyo Anti Library Architecture Competition
Archasm Tokyo (Anti) Library Architecture Contest
TOKYO (ANTI) LIBRARY
Background
Japan and its people have been at the forefront of a digital revolution since the past four or five decades. The country has long existed between two realms. On the one hand, we have the traditional ?old world? of temples, tea ceremonies and calligraphic cherry blossoms.

On the other hand, there shines a futuristic ?new? world of bullet trains, AI dogs, anime pilgrimages, 2.5-dimension theatres, digital currency like J-coin and receptive gaming consoles. Japan has been a place of fascination throughout the years, particularly to those interested in media and popular culture, business, science and technology, and other related areas such as transport and tourism. Experts are debating the effects of ?obsessive? digitization in the country which is isolating the people from one another. A high percentage of Japanese people are aging while the younger people are staying away from interacting with one another. Contemporary Japan and the whole set of its younger population are immersed in high speed internet and mobile-app culture. With almost everything available to people virtually on the internet and a click away on the mobile applications, people in Japan...