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G30 Summer Pavilion Work in Progress 01

Published 2013年5月9日 by T—ADS

G30 Summer Pavilion Project has officially kicked off. As two previous pavilion projects, Pro. Jun Sato will join us as our structural engineer.

The structural system was developed as a Tensegrity, connecting varying sizes of components with thin stainless cables, creating a network of tension and compression in the form of stable shell structure. When the components are linked as a 2D surface, it remains as flexible. When the 2D surface is positioned in a specific 3D geometry, it locks into a stable Tensegrity structure.

Summer Pavilion Project with Obayashi Co.

Published 2013年4月22日 by T—ADS

 This year’s G30 Pavilion will be developed as a collaboration project with Obayashi Corporation, one of Japan’s major construction companies. In the past two years, we have built two pavilions at scales that were manageable to G30 students with our limited resources. In order expand our ambitions, we have invited our Digital Fabrication Lab’s sponsors to join our pavilion projects.


As a prototype of temporally structures for Tokyo Olympic 2020, four design proposals were developed by G30’s 1st year design teams, and one was selected by both G30 teaching staff and members of Obayashi Co to be developed further and to be built this summer.


Selected Pavilion Proposal by Ana, Miguel, Leaf

François Roche Workshop, Schizoid 2.0/

Published 2013年4月17日 by T—ADS

Francois Roche gave a 3-day workshop titled, Schizoid 2.0/ BOTTOMup[Vs]TOPdown
The workshop brief states as ‘The Workshop on several days at Tokyo University will be the occasion to re‐question two processes of urbanism, of politic, as a Chimera between;
1. One from a top down management, where everything is previously anticipated and controlled, in terms of master planning and design…
2. The other one which integrates a degree of tolerance, of loophole, in terms of individual and collective strategy of urban mutation and self‐organization.
The purpose is to develop a schizoid urban structure in an emerging city (BKK, Sao Paulo, Ho‐Chi‐Minh,…even in Japan if a location is able to fit with the research) which extracts its logic, morphologies and uses, from the recognition of this schizoid dimension.’

Lecture by Francois Roche

Published 2013年4月14日 by T—ADS

Francois Roche will lecture on Apr. 17th at the University of Tokyo.

François Roche is the principal of New-Territories (R&Sie(n) / [eIf/bʌt/c]). He is based in Bangkok for [eIf/bʌt/c], in Paris for R&Sie(n) and in NY with his studio of research at Graduate School of Architecture, Plannin and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University.
Through these different structures, his architectural works and protocols seek to articulate the real and/or fictional, the geographic situations and narrative structures that can transform them.

Reiser + Umemoto O-14 AA Book Sale

Published 2013年3月13日 by T—ADS

During the Symposium on 3/17, the AA’s latest publication, O-14 Projection and Reception by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto will be sold.  It will be autographed by the editors and contributors of the book. Limited copies will be available for first come first served.

Symposium: Projection and Reception

Published 2013年3月12日 by T—ADS

Symposium: Projection and Reception
Reiser + Umemoto’s O-14 AA Book Launch Event

Symposium will bring the editors and contributors of the AA’s latest publication, O-14, Projection and Reception to Tokyo, and discuss the making of books as well as making of buildings as a form of research.

Guest speakers:

Jesse Reiser
Nanako Umemoto
Brett Steele
Sylvia Lavin
Jeff Kipnis
Kengo Kuma
Yusuke Obuchi
Date: March 17, 2013, 5:00-8:00 PM
Location: University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture, Room 15(Lecture Hall)

The University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture
Graduate School of Engineering
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, JAPAN


DFL & SPL Event

Published 2013年3月8日 by T—ADS

Digital Fabrication Lab(DFL) is organizing its annual event on March 17th(Sun). The event will be  joined by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto and students from  Princeton, Tsinghua, and Nagoya Institute of Technology who will present their studio projects at the University of Tokyo. Kengo Kuma and Yusuke Obuchi are going to speak about the DFL’s activities during the year of 2011-2012 and future plans for the coming year.

In addition to DFL, Sustainable Prototyping Lab(SPL) is starting up this spring at the University of Tokyo. This is a new lab established to research topics on sustainability and urbanism. The SPL launch event will be followed by Reiser +Umemoto’s O-14 AA book Launch Event joined by distinguished architectural critics from around the world.







Schedule: March 17th (Sun), 2013
12:00 – 15:00  Japan Studio Midterm Presentation  
15:00 – 16:00  Digital Fabrication Lab Annual Event
16:15 – 16:45  Sustainable Prototyping Lab Intro Presentation 
17:00 – 20:00  Symposium: Projection and Reception 

Location:
Poster Presentation: Department of Architecture, Engineering bld No.1 (2F studio space)
Press Release and Launch Event: Department of Architecture, Engineering bld No.1 (Room 15)

Contact:
DFL: digital.fabrication@arch.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
SPL: sustainable.prototyping@arch.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Lecture by Holger Kehne

Published 2013年3月3日 by T—ADS
Holger Kehne of Plasma Studio will lecture on Mar.4th at the University of Tokyo. Holger Kehne studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Muenster, Germany and at the University of East London. He is a former Unit Master of Diploma School at the Architectural Association in London, Guest Professor for design, MArch2 programme at the University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Professor at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in China.

Lecture by Achim Menges

Published 2013年1月31日 by T—ADS

Achim Menges will lecture on 2/15.  Achim will discuss his research work which focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of morphogenetic design computation, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing that enables a highly articulated, performative built environment. His work is based on an interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with structural engineers, computer scientists, material scientists and biologists.
Achim Menges has been Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2009-10), at the AA School of Architecture in London (2009-current) and at Rice University in Houston (2004).