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1 week into construction

Published 2015年11月20日 by T—ADS

The first layer is finished and lifted. We can begin to see the overall geometry of the pavilion take shape through a careful and thorough team effort.

TOCA Pavilion work in progress

Published 2015年11月19日 by T—ADS

Here are some images of the TOCA Pavilion project. The first two are rendered images. The others are of the work in progress on-site.

Guest Lecture: Theodore Spyropoulos, Director, AA Design Research Lab

Published 2015年11月17日 by T—ADS

On November 17th Theodore Spyropoulos, director of AA Design Research Laboratory and Minimaforms design studio, presented his work and research at the T_ADS Obuchi Lab.

Real Size Thinking Competition – Pop-up Shelter

Published 2015年11月12日 by T—ADS

This project is called a Pop-up Shelter. It is currently installed at the 2015 Real Size Design Thinking exhibition. By combining stretchable fabric and FRP elastic rods, a soft enclosure is created. The fabric has pockets to contain the rods.

To make the form, the rods are first inserted into the fabric. Next, the fabric is stretched and the intersection points of the rods are secured in place with zip-ties. The geometry is flat in the beginning, but it becomes a 3D form after the intersection points of all the rods are fixed.

Real Size Thinking Competition – Harvesting Plasticity

Published 2015年11月11日 by T—ADS

Three projects by Obuchi Lab made into the finalist at the Real Size Thinking Competition in Tokyo.
This project, ‘Harvesting Plasticity’, uses bio-degradable plastic to create a temporary structure. A motion-tracking system was developed to position the members precisely and a custom 3d plastic extrusion tool was used to connect the members.

Real Size Thinking Competition by Amy and Xu

Published 2015年11月10日 by T—ADS

Three projects by Obuchi Lab made into the finalist at the Real Size Thinking Competition in Tokyo. Here is the project by Amy and Xu, a mockup of their thesis project titled Intimacy Cloud.
Structural components are made of recycled ground coffee beans, creating aromatic environment of coffee. The components are naturally fire resistance thus proving a place for smoking area.