The Rooftop Carpark at Aeon Mall in Okazaki.

For whatever reason I'm rather fascinated with urban sprawl. I think there is some bizarre relationship that occurs in humans to express themselves outside of their bodily constraints. Sure, I'm talking gibberish at the moment but perhaps it's not to difficult to conceive the idea that a person would change their environment to suit their needs to some degree. For some more or less than others.

I feel that these changes in the environment are extentions of one's self. A shoe for example helps to extend one's ability to travel, a car to extend distance, and a plane to extend it even further. As such people house themselves to extend their lives in order to make it more comfortable, or more bearable in some instances. Would it not be too much to ask that the makings of these extensions, in turn, need housing? A shelf for a shoe to extend its life, or appropriateness in its environment, a garage to extend a car's durability, an airport hanger for a plane and so on.

This brings me back to my fascination with urban sprawl and in this case, carparks. Such bare, lifeless places are what I believe to be the extentions of our travels and eventually ourselves. Were it to be ugly would only be so in our personal feelings and perceptions, but it is to be beautiful for perhaps only the fact that it is a necessary example of ourselves. Such creations were borne of the lattices created by the natural evolution of, for lack of a better word and despite its connotations, life.

I believe it to be ugly, but ultimately beautiful. *insert vomit here* :P