2018.02.02

【Report】 "Shibuya city currently in progress type" made with Lego with children

The event "Let's make the town in Shibuya a Lego block", which makes the town of Shibuya with children, is held at Shibuya Hikarie 8 / COURT on Sunday, January 28, 2018. On the day, a total of 57 elementary school students including the local Shibuya participated, and the children handed out “Shibuya town development” with Lego blocks. Organized by the Shibuya Station Area Management Council and Shibuya Station Area Management.
Redevelopment area in front of the station. The building under construction is the SHIBUYA SCRAMBLE SQUARE East Building.
Shibuya station area where massive redevelopment is going on once every 100 years. The event will be held at Shibuya station where construction work progresses, including " SHIBUYA STREAM " which will open in the former Toyoko Line ruins this autumn and "Shibuya Scramble Eku Higashi Building" under construction for the opening of business in 2019 An attempt to reproduce the appearance of "surroundings" with a Lego block.
Lego Certified Pro Builder · Ms. Junpei Mitsui.
Designing and producing the Lego block and making the city of Shibuya with the children was Junpei Mitsui, the only LEGO certified professional builder in Japan. Incidentally, there are only 14 people in the world including Lego Certified Probuilders, including Mr. Mitsui, and from LegoFan it is known as a person with a high production capacity called "God".

This time it was reproduced in the Lego block within 500 meters of redevelopment area centering on Shibuya station, the scale of the model is 1/300 scale, the size is 1.7 × 1.8 meters, the total number of LEGO blocks used It reaches 100,000 pieces. For Mr. Mitsui's workshop with children, Mr. Mitsui took over the production for about four months. "I first painted a picture with hand-drawn, watched it and made it with trial and error, without deforming it, faithfully reproduced it as a city model while also matching the ratio of the window frame" It was somewhat difficult to create a vertical pattern of SHIBUYA CAST and a building under construction where the steel frame is assembled. "

The workshop was organized in two parts, "Department of lower grades (1st to 3rd graders)" in the morning and "upper grades (fourth to sixth graders) in the afternoon, mainly by local children in Shibuya A total of 57 elementary school students participated. Ultimately, we actually incorporate the parts produced by the children into "Shibuya no Machi" which Mr. Mitsui made in advance with Lego Block, and finally complete the town.

Below, I would like to see the actual situation of town development by Lego through the workshop for lower grades that was held in the morning.
First of all, participating elementary school students are divided into 3 to 5 people and seated in each table. Each set will be distributed a set of Lego blocks to be used in the workshop, and under the guidance of Mr. Mitsui, we will assemble blocks and parts one by one. Children who were familiar with Lego since childhood are also conspicuous, as well as the appearance of children advancing production further than Mitsui's explanation.
Nonetheless, because children are assembling without informing what they are making and what part of the city they are going to be, "Since it is black and white, is not it a panda?" "No, it is Othello" etc. , I am curious what the children can do.
If you peek through the hole you can see far away ~. win! It looks like a spaceship and is cool!
It was striking to see the shape and color of the Lego block staring, looking into the hole, and the child inflating various imaginations. In recent years, attention has been paid to "Montessori Education" by junior high school student chess player, Mr. Satoshi Fujii, but it is exactly LEGO is an educational toy that stimulates the five senses of such a child.
In the same group, children around me were wondering whether there was a child who was lost in assembling the block, and they were trying to communicate well while contacting each other for the first time.
As the blocks gradually gather up, the voices saying "Oh, road," "It's an expressway," will start to join together among our group members. Yes, in this low school workshop, the "Capital Expressway" was built from Roppongi street running over National Route 246. Each one creates a unit of a part of a road and connects all the small units, so one capital city speed rises up that crosses Shibuya station in the east and west.
Mr. Mitsui to do finishing work.
Finally, Mitsui carefully incorporates the units that the children made, into the model of the city of Shibuya one by one. Combining the power of everyone, the workshop was closed with a wonderful production that one important function of the city is completed.

Participating elementary school student said, "I did not know what I could do when I first saw, but I got on the road when I stuck with everyone" (a 3rd grade elementary school student), "It seemed to be difficult but I enjoyed it" ( Elementary school girls in third grade), they gave me impressions with a smile. The Lego block that I made is surely incorporated in a part of the city of Shibuya and I must have felt proud.

Mr. Mitsui finished the workshop of "Morning Division", Mr. Mitsui said, "It was the first time for children to make part of the diorama, which was quite a challenging attempt, as children were enthusiastically made It was very good, since the expressway is one of the important parts of the city, I was interested in Shibuya because I was involved in that, so I myself made a town of Shibuya with LEGO and it was so shabby in Shibuya It was said that he felt a response to his new attempt, "It was detailed (laugh)".
Completed products are on display at Shibuya Hikarie 11th floor.
A workshop for upper grades is also held in the afternoon of the day. Production of "car" to run in the town was carried out, and "town of Shibuya to make with Lego" was finished. The completed "town of Shibuya" is currently on display at Shibuya Hikarie 11F, but it is said that Ms. Mitsui will continue to work on the progress of the redevelopment in the future.
Also, next to "the city of Shibuya by Lego", a city model of "Future Shibuya" scheduled to be completed in FY 2027 is also set up, but in future it will be compared with "the town of Lego that is in progress" It seems fun to follow changes in the city. When you stop by Hikarie, we recommend you to go to the 11th floor.