TOKYO ‘MANTEL’
Home of Hikikomori
Tianjin University - 2021 Spring
Individual Project
Instructor: Liwei Chen
Site: Tokyo(Shibuya)
A unique phenomenon has appeared in Japan that people tend to spend their time in virtual world rather than communicate with other people. Hikikomori is an extreme example that they afraid of or dislike leaving their room and fulfill their need of comunication on the Internet. However, is this a irreversible process? or is their another way to help them establish contact with people? This project tend to combine the system of hotel and internet cafe and create a new system of communication that benefit both the tourists and hikikomori.
* Mantel=Manboo(Internet cafe) +Hotel