Urbain DRC

Urbain DRC is a design/research collaborative focused on the future of the city and its environment.

Founded by Jack Cochran and Carl Koepcke, Urbain DRC is a design/research collaborative. We lead a question driven firm - that is, we pursue problems and seek innovative solutions through a variety of means and disciplines, navigating business development, architecture, policy, planning, product design, and many others in pursuit of more thoughtfully designed experiences.

30/01/2019

A sneak peak at our new site for the Wikitopia project in the heart of Ginza in Tokyo, a plaza and multi-story underground complex that links to the subway. More details to come soon. @ Ginza Sony Park（銀座ソニーパーク）

10/12/2018

Jack Cochran, Urbain co-founder, is in Charlottesville for final reviews at U.Va. An intense snowstorm has set the starting point back a few hours, but we couldn’t imagine a more beautiful setting for what’s sure to be an exciting day of conversation and fantastic student work.

06/12/2018

We’re excited to announce the second phase of the Wikitopia International Competition! Building on the incredible ideas we received from the first phase, we ask that participants focus on a specific site in Tokyo and build off of prior ideas, akin to updating software. More details on Phase 2.0 are available at wikitopia.jp/competition/index_en.html. We’ll be posting images from our Phase 1.0 winners soon, as well as pictures of our exhibit in Tokyo last week that featured competition entries and research into the long history of tactical and participatory urbanism.

11/07/2018

We’re excited to announce the Wikitopia International Competition is now open! A collaboration with Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Wikitopia seeks tech-enabled tactical urbanist designs and ideas, to help citizens quickly and effectively change their environment for the better. Please go to wikitopia.jp/competition for details and share if you know anyone who might be interested.

10/07/2018

We’ve got an exciting Wikitopia announcement tomorrow, an ongoing project with our Japanese partners at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Check back tomorrow for the latest on this Tokyo-US collaboration.

11/04/2018

We’re excited to announce a research project we’ve had underway since January, a collaboration with Sony and Japanese architects on tactical urbanism. Titled Wikitopia, we’re investigating historic and contemporary examples of DIY improvements to cities. Bouquinistes, above, are Parisian magazine and bookstands, rapidly deployable from wood crates bolted to low walls, bringing reading material and conversation to the sidewalks and minimizing hauling by owners. More updates to come on our yearlong endeavor. Photo credit: Benh Lieu Song.

09/04/2018

Our custom ceiling for the first level at Konko Hostel mixed yellow, white, and metal mesh inserts with varying opacities, creating an eye-catching element to draw visitors to the second-level reception. @ Jakarta, Indonesia

06/04/2018

Facade detail at night at our newly opened hostel.

08/02/2018

Our 2014 installation at the Knockdown Center, a reading room made of receipt paper. Titled Obsolescence/Birth, the installation was a part of a one-day event featuring artists, chefs, and designers responding to a visual (non-haptic) Braille manual. Influenced by the beauty of the code and also its obsolescence, as Braille is being quickly supplanted by text-to-audio technologies, we asked how another soon-to-be replaced technology, the physical receipt, might be reimagined.

01/02/2018

From the archives: Carl Koepcke conducts an early test of the MIMMI lights, hung in his garage a few months before installation, working with Yuichiro Takeuchi in Japan. We individually assigned each WiFi-enabled LED to show the mood of a local Tweet, all of which worked together to evoke the real-time feelings of a city.

25/01/2018

Demo has begun on our Medford St. apartment! We’re converting a former acupuncturist clinic to a four bedroom home. By tearing down two small rooms, we’ve turned a tight space into what will become an open kitchen and living room - targeted minimal costs for great impact.

03/01/2018

A hallway to bunks and private rooms at Konko Hostel nearly finished.

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銀座5-3-1
Chuo-ku, Tokyo
104-0061

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http://www.urbaindrc.com/

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