Advanced Design Studies Blog: Critical Mass
On Nov. 2nd, T_ADS hosted a midterm review event with Jesse Reiser’s studio from Princeton University. The review was joined by Keisuke Kitagawa’s studio from Nagoya Institute of Technology. Students are working on alternative designs for the New National Olympic Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Architectural curator Kayoko Ota and landscape architect Shunsaku Miyagi joined the review as invited guest critics.
Today we’re capturing our natural movements to shoot foam. The movement is captured with an AR-system.
Today we tested a motion capturing system for our pavilion.
Obuchi Lab staff and students joined members of Takenaka Co. for a Shinto ceremony before the construction of this year’s DFL Pavilion, Toca, which means “touch” in Spanish. Our project has been blessed by a Shinto priest!
On October 23rd, Andrew Kudless presented his projects at the T_ADS Obuchi Lab.
Jason Johnson presented his projects at the T_ADS Obuchi Lab.
Obuchi lab is pleased to host Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab for a guest lecture on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. The lecture will be held in Room 415 of the Architecture Building (Engineering Building #1) on Hongo Campus. Please join us!
Experiments, Prototypes, Utopias
Jason Kelly Johnson, Future Cities Lab
Jason Kelly Johnson’s Future Cities Lab is at the forefront of exploring how advanced technologies, robotics, social media and the internet of things will profoundly transform how we live, work, communicate, interact and play in the future. As a part of the lab’s core research agenda they synthesize past, present and future trajectories into radically synthetic forms of architectural production, interaction and participation.
Jason Kelly Johnson is founding design Principal of Future Cities Lab in San Francisco. He is currently an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) and Co-Director of CCA’s Digital Craft Lab.
www.future-cities-lab.net
Congratulations to the Obuchi Lab Graduates of the Class of 2015!
Obuchi lab has been published in Forty-Five, A Journal of Outside Research. Forty-Five features a variety of interesting works presented in non-conventional ways. We would like to thank Jonathan Solomon and David Hays for extending an invitation to submit an article.
The article, Arms Race, discusses the development of the stick dispensing machine used for the 2014 pavilion project and considers the evolution of tools from hand tools to power tools to network tools. It contextualizes the STIK project within the context of Tokyo, and introduces some of the challenges the laboratory faced when researching construction and fabrication techniques for the pavilion. The piece also includes a review by Kengo Kuma.
The full article is available for viewing and PDF download on Forty-Five’s website.
