Uploaded on 2016-06-29 by Alejandro Juan Pineda Sánchez

(I was living in Osaka, Japan, the last year, so all pictures from there that i will upload in the course are taken by me). Usually in Europe, i think we put an effort in hiding the infrastructures of electricity, water... for visual motifs and security. But in Asia, and very specially in Japan, often it is in the opposite way. The system allows me to upload only a picture for the present task, but in other pictures i have upload for other exercises, it is very visible how the electricity infrastructure go from one building to the next, aerially, very visually. This is a picture taken near of the Osaka port, in a residential area (is not even the most densest area of the city). Due to the rapid economic growth of the 60s and the desire to protect the city canals, a lot of transport infrastructures go above earth, and above the pedestrian streets. There is possible to see two monorail lines and a lot of high-speed car lines that connect one area of the city with another. It is a chaotic image, but of a "controlled chaos" (Kazuo Shinohara, about the city). The transport infrastructure is so important, that the normatve in Osaka allows, in certain conditions, even to pass an infrastructure, a high-speed car line, inside a building! (There is a very famous example of an office building crossed by one of this line).