Japanese architect Kumiko Inui sheds light on her redevelopment of Nobeoka Station in Japan during the final Models Talk film published in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Named Recipe for Mixed Rice, the 10-minute video guides viewers through the station complex in Nobeoka, which Inui designed as an open public space to challenge the "withdrawn" nature of the city.
The film features shots of a detailed scale model interspersed with footage of the newly finished station, accompanied by a voiceover by Inui.
Recipe for Mixed Rice is a film about the Nobeoka Station redevelopment
Recipe for Mixed Rice is the final video of Models Talk, ??a three-part video series published this week by the research institution and museum Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in partnership with Dezeen. The series also includes videos about projects by Japanese architects Erika Nakagawa and Kazuko Akamatsu of Coelacanth and Associates, which each address different urban issues.
The videos are available to watch in Japanese with English subtitles.
Japanese architect Kumiko Inui guides viewers through the project with a scaled model
Recipe for Mixed Rice begins with video footage of a train passing through Nobeoka, before arriving at the station.
Inui begins by explaining the origins of the station's redevelopment, which she began in 2011 with her eponymous studio Inui Architects as part of a wider regeneration project for the area. The project was completed i...