The project provoked various discussions on public space, including the one related to the treatment of homeless people, who are gathering in and around the park. This opened a new framework of public space, which was donated equally by private enterprises, initiated by the municipality and private companies. They collaborated with Nike Japan and the local municipality with the aim to invite potential users into the park by improving the existing structure through the introduction of new sports facilities such as a skateboard park and a climbing wall. Miyashita Park: Atelier Bow-Wow renovated a 50 years old park situated on the roof of a parking structure in Shibuya, one of the busiest commercial areas in Tokyo. Thirdly and recently, Atelier Bow-Wow has realized three bigger public spaces: Miyashita Park, Kitamoto KAO Project and the BMW Guggenheim Lab. The results were intimate, temporary gathering spaces in the city – locations, which they call Micro Public Space. In these projects, the relationship between people’s behaviors and environmental settings as well as daily devices in each places were investigated and then dissimilated in order to activate the participatory behavior into a shared experience embodied in each individual. Secondly, they developed their interest in public space through several social experiments in the framework of international art Biennales held in different places on the globe. It first started as an urban research project, which resulted in the publication “Made in Tokyo”, the exploration of the hybrid urban environment, and “Pet Architecture Guidebook”, a typological study of extremely tiny buildings, which illustrate the spatial practice in the course of rapid urban transformation.
But besides these, they have been also working on urban and public spaces.
Atelier Bow-Wow is known for their small housing designs within the dense urban areas of Tokyo.