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Applying for G30

Published 2012年11月22日 by T—ADS

Our 2013-2014 application is now available. If you are interested in applying for G30, please visit the following site for information about our course.

G30 Architecture and Urbanism


Eligibility for Application

Applicant must be:

  1. A foreign national who is not a permanent resident of Japan.
  2. A foreign national who is not currently residing in Japan
  3. A person who has completed or is scheduled to complete an undergraduate degree in a foreign county before enrolling at The University of Tokyo, which is equivalent to the 16-year course of the Japanese school curriculum
  4. A person with sufficient linguistic skills to receive classes and research guidance in English    

     *Previous study of architecture is strongly recommended but not required 


Selection Procedure
Application process will take place in two stages:

1st Stage:
Portfolio review and assessment of application documents.
Application result will be notified by e-mail

2nd Stage:
An online interview via Skype. Applicants will be asked to present their portfolio and to answer questions concerning their ambitions at the University of Tokyo.
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Please visit Global 30 website for further detailed information about the application.
**Check List of the application documents for G30-UDA

***For more information on Financial Aid at University of Tokyo, please visit our blog on November 21, 2011

1st Year Midterm Review

Published 2012年11月22日 by T—ADS


Today, we had midterm review with 1st year students. They have been working on the development of non-liner tensegrity canopy, and the review was focused on design systems, aiming for their work to be developed and built as full-scale pavilions next year. The students will continue developing their work with  Rhino+Grasshopper and Processing. Later in the semester, Maya and a structural analysis plugin, developed by Daisuke Hirose who teaches our Maya class, will be used for structural analysis.

Circle Pack Pavilion at Tokyo Designers Week

Published 2012年10月30日 by T—ADS

Circle Pack Pavilion is completed. This pavilion was designed and constructed forTokyo Designers Week 2012. Our pavilion will be displayed as part of School Exhibition at Meiji Jingu Gaien site until Nov.5th. If you are going to TDW, please make sure to visit our pavilion!


Circle Pack Pavilion Construction

Published 2012年10月30日 by T—ADS
Testing Circle Pack Pattern for the Pavilion

Students are working to make a pavilion called “Circle Pack Pavilion.” It is becoming one of G30’s annual events to build a pavilion for Tokyo Designers Week. The pavilion uses shrink film and various sizes of nested bamboo rings to archive lightweight structure. We will update more photos during the event.

Assembly Test

Mock-up
Production of nested bamboo rings 

3D Printer

Published 2012年10月18日 by T—ADS
uPrintSE Plus
3D Printed Test Model

Stratays’s uPrintSE Plus has been added to our digital facilities. This 3D printer has the ability to print any kinds of three dimensional form up to 203mm x 203mm x 152mm.

3D Printed Deli’s Project from Last Year

New G30 Students

Published 2012年10月15日 by T—ADS

1st Year Studio Pin-up

This is G30’s 3rd year since we started in 2010. We have students of different backgrounds every year, and the group is getting bigger. This year, our 1st year students are from China, Korea, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and the US. They have already started working on their studio projects.

G30 Studio and Digital Tutorial Classes Started

Published 2012年10月9日 by T—ADS
G30 2012-2013 Kick-off meeting

We started our new semester, and will be working on studio project to design non-linear tensegrity canopy, developing both physical and digital design system. Digital tutorials have also begun this week focusing on Maya, Rhino+Grasshopper, and Processing. The students are going to develop and exam their design systems by making physical models and 1:1 mock-ups in the first half of the semester.

Cybernetic Urbanism V.1.0, thesis project by Deli

Published 2012年9月6日 by T—ADS

Located at Kitanakano Junior High School in Tokyo, 300 of fluid-transporting components for distributing grey water from the underground septic tank are created on this school’s playground. This alternative purification facility for grey water transforms 10624 m3 of grey water per day collected from the school’s neighborhood to the water resource for the same community’s urban farming activities, linking urban infrastructure with local community.