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Category: Lab Life

G30 Obuchi Lab Design Thesis Defense Presentation

Published 2013年8月20日 by T—ADS

4 design teams had their design thesis defense presentations. Each team was given 16 minutes to present their design proposal followed by a 6-minutes individual research presentation. All projects were reviewed by Kengo Kuma, Manabu Chiba, Yusuke Obuchi, joined by collaborative engineers: Jun Sato, Masayuki Mae, Futoshi Kurisu, and Ryoma Kitagaki.

We will have another presentation on Friday with invited guests form outside of the University of Tokyo.

Draft version of thesis project books are now uploaded on issuu:
http://issuu.com/obuchilab

2nd year studio review with Janette Kim

Published 2013年8月9日 by T—ADS

It was a busy day – We had multiple events simultaneously in our lab:  a progress review of our pavilion construction with staff from Obayashi Co, 2nd year studio review with Janette Kim, and a meeting for 2nd year book editing. After the studio review, Janette gave a lecture on her recent work, Room for Debate. With the 1:3 scaled model in the middle of our lab space, our lab was quite active all day. 


2013 Obuchi Lab Design Thesis Books have arrived

Published 2013年8月7日 by T—ADS

Design teams at Obuchi Lab have compiled 2 years of their design research work into a project document book which will be submitted to the Department of Architecture for their final presentation. The document contains one team research book and a series of individual research books.  

Adaptive Morphology, Kuma – Obuchi Undergrad Design Studio

Published 2013年6月22日 by T—ADS

This year’s Kuma – Obuchi Undergrad Design Studio is joined by Keisuke Toyoda and Junichiro Horikawa of Noiz Architects, Sota Ichikawa of doubleNegatives Architecture, and Kaz Yoneda of takram design engineering. Under the title of Adaptive Morphology, the ambitions of the studio is to explore evolutionary design processes.

Images here are taken during reviews joined by Jun Sato, Makoto Sei Watanabe, Yasushi Ikeda.

G30 in Kentucky Knob

Published 2013年5月22日 by T—ADS

20 minutes drive from Fallingwater, there was another house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In contrast to the Fallingwater, which is located in the woods, Kentuck Knob sits on the top of the hill with a great view of mountains beyond.

G30 in Princeton

Published 2013年5月20日 by T—ADS

As last year, we participated in Japan Studio Project with Princeton University, Tsinghua University, and Nagoya Institute of Technology. The Super-Jury, one-day event, was held at the School of Architecture at Princeton.

Living in Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa

Published 2013年5月15日 by T—ADS

Ana Luisa, one of our former G30 students, has been living in the iconic Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa.  Here is her article of her account as a residence of the tower.
http://www.domusweb.it/content/domusweb/en/architecture/2013/05/29/the_metabolist_routine.html
update:
Our current G30 student has since then moved in and started to report the updates of the tower which is threatened to be demolished. 

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