Working with their 1:10 scale model, 1st year students are developing their pavilion design which will be constructed in August this year.
Advanced Design Studies Blog: Critical Mass
Author: T—ADS
Yoshio Futagawa, chief editor of GA Document and GA Houese, will give a lecture titled, POINT OF VIEW.
Date: 2/8/2013, 17:30 – 19:30
Location: Department of Architecture Lecture Hall (Room15)
Joint lecture by Guy Nordenson and Mutsuro Sasaki. Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor of architecture at Princeton University; Mutsuro Sasaki is a structural engineer and professor at Hosei University.
Guy and Muturo worked with Japanese architects in the last decades, including Sanna, Toyo Ito, Arata Isozaki, and will be discussing their collaborative design processes.
Date: 1/24/2013, 18:30 – 20:30
Location: Department of Architecture, Lecture Hall (Room 15)
Aiming towards their final presentation and construction of 1:1 scale prototypes in August, 2nd year students are back in studio to develop their project on Cybernetic Urbanism.
G30 studetns and our two course assistants went to Tsukiji Fish Market to buy all kinds of fresh fish for our Christmas Sushi Party. This has become one of our annual events at G30.
This is the last day of 2012 for G30, and we will start the new year from Jan. 7th.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
G30’s 1st year students presented their four pavilion projects to our guest critics, Mitsuhiro Kanda(Tokyo University of the Arts/Arup) and Jun Sato(the University of Tokyo/Jun Sato Structural Engineers). The students received interesting feedback regarding structural and fabrication issues from both of the structural engineers. The all four projects will be developed further after the break to build mock-ups early next year.
This is the last week of 2012 for G30, and the 2nd year studio had presentations today. We invited Tomohiko Yamanashi from Nikken Sekkei to review some projects that will be developed further for their thesis projects in the coming semester.
Followed by 2nd year studio, we are going to have the 1st year studio review tomorrow. If you are around, please stop by to see the presentations. (Dec 20th, 2pm-5pm)
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DIRTY ARCHITECTURE
Team: Maung Kyaw Htoo, Yasemin Sahiner, Ana Ilić
Focusing on urban issues such as `Soil Contamination` and `Brownfield Areas`, we are developing a temporal infrastructure which functions as ‘Urban Soil Detoxifier’. The aim is to utilize urban wastelands as abundant material resources and sustaine life-like properties of soil by incorporating biological degradation process into architecture and urban design. Our prototype found its place on the former Tokyo Gas Factory site which is intended for the relocation of the Tsukiji maket, but has not been occupied due to its high level of soil contamination.
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Continuing from last semester, 2nd year students are working on their Cybernetic Urbanism projects. The main objective of this studio project is to develop an artificial life-like urban ecology integrating natural and human environments by networking biological and industrial production processes.
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SWEATING PAPER
Team: Dejan Mojić, Maria Larsson, Guillaume Dumont
We aim to maximize the performance of the material. Since paper can absorb, contain, and transport it is utilized as a substrate for water which evaporates and cool the local environment. The final proposal is a series of structures at Chou-dori in Ginza, a typical place in Tokyo where extreme urbaniztion has resulted in an unpleasantly hot and dry street climate.
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HYDRATING ARCHITECTURE
Team: Li Shuang (Lauren), Lee Dasom, Lin XuHao (Colin)
Autopoiesis is a word which could concisely describing the self generated form. it divided into three parts: raw material, organized structure, and realizing the function which follows the shape.
In the raw material analysis, we have 3 levels of components design graded by size after connection.
1st: individual components and connections, 2nd: local geometry (is later considered as a single unit of floating farm), 3rd: is the biggest, which is the global geometry (overall shape of the dynamic system)
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DIGESTIVE ARCHITECTURE
Team: Chong WANG, Ryo SAITO, Lin WANG, Risa KAGAMI
As an application test, one actual site of dairy farm is selected in Nerima area, Tokyo, which is not so far away from the central Tokyo. In terms of program, it is supposed to become an urban recycling infrastructure field treating with waste paper, feeding cows, producing milk and by products like cow dung bricks and fertilizer. The basic design strategy is applying the wall prototype in the global geometry forced by site information and programmatic requirements. Like an evolutional development of living organisms, where a genotype is the blue print of all of its phenotypes, its ambition is to construct an ecology of design system, which seamlessly integrates both natural and human environments linked by adaptive feedback systems of networked infrastructure.
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Circle Pack Pavilion was reassembled at Architectural Institute of Japan(AIJ) for Archieering Design Exhibition 2012. This event was organized to connect architecture and structural engineering design. The pavilion will be exhibited until Nov. 25th.
