The Man Who Can't Be Moved
The Man Who Can't Be Moved explores the hidden lives of Japan’s ‘evaporated people,’ or johatsu, through a speculative intervention in Tokyo’s Sanya district. Employing cinematic strategies as a design methodology, it constructs spatial units that embody the psychological and social tensions between johatsu individuals and the dominant narratives of urban development. Each unit serves as both shelter and story—resisting the city’s homogenising forces while giving architectural voice to those who have chosen to disappear.
