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Jun Sato gave a kick-off structural engineering lecture for first year pavilion project

Published 2015年3月2日 by T—ADS

Sato sensei gave the kick-off structural engineering lecture for the first year students. We are planning various material tests (e.g. bending, compression, and buckling). Each project has its own design and material property thus it is important to listen the expert to decide which test is suitable.

Smart tool specialist gave a lecture

Published 2015年2月13日 by T—ADS

Sugiura-san, a visionary researcher in tangible computer interaction, gave a lecture about his previous works including Graffiti Fur.

Harmonograph

Published 2015年1月1日 by T—ADS

Designing the shape of STIK PAVILION

Now that the construction of the Stik Pavilion is finished, we have been working on documenting some of the processes. As such, it could be interesting to revisit the formal design process that the lab was exploring. The following video shows how the shape of the pavilion was generated using the Harmonograph; a mechanical apparatus with two pendulums which generates a geometric shape.

Guest Lecture: Peter Cook (Dec 22)

Published 2014年12月24日 by T—ADS

On Monday, December 22, Visiting Professor Peter Cook gave a special guest lecture and participated in a discussion with Kengo Kuma in Lecture Hall #15 at Engineering Building #1 at the University of Tokyo.

Commune 246 opened!!

Published 2014年12月23日 by T—ADS

We successfully completed the project of Food Cart in Commune 246, Aoyama, Tokyo!! Now entire Commune246 is open thus please visit the facility!
(You can see our Food Cart wrapped by chopsticks in the middle of the photo.)
Our cart accommodate a Shop which sells Organic Soy Bean products ranging from Japanese traditional “Natto” to Soy milk smoothy. You can find more info about Commune 246 in following links.

http://commune246.com/
https://www.facebook.com/commune246

Guest Lecture: Yael Reisner (Dec 20)

Published 2014年12月22日 by T—ADS

On Saturday, December 20, Yael Reisner gave a guest lecture in Lecture Hall 15 in Engineering Building #1 at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo Campus.

The lecture, entitled “When Architecture is Experienced as Beautiful”, was moderated by Kengo Kuma.

December 19th, 2014: T_ADS Christmas Party

Published 2014年12月19日 by T—ADS

On December 19th, 2014, T_ADS hosted the Annual Christmas Party!

Every year Obuchi Lab hosts a Christmas Sushi Party for all the lab’s staff and students. Fresh fish from Tsukiji transformed into nigiri sushis by students and staffs, and served to everybody who came. Good time was had by all, enlivened with sake and beer.

It is also a tradition for a new staff member to take first year students to Tsukiji Market early in the morning to purchase a lot of fresh sushi-grade fish meat.

This year, we bought scrumptious pieces of tuna, swordfish, salmon, octopus, and shrimps.

Shifting Shifts

Published 2014年12月17日 by T—ADS

In the past two weeks everyone had shifts for guarding the pavilion while providing information for passers by. We had a little intervention =]

Ready to be whisked away to Elisyum…

Published 2014年12月17日 by T—ADS

The Pavilion has been demolished this morning by Shimizu and remains will be taken away by tomorrow. Holding chopsticks will never feel the same again.

Casting Chopsticks on site at Commune246

Published 2014年12月5日 by T—ADS

We finished (!!) the process of casting Chopsticks onto the main wooden structures of our food cart in Commune 246. They are still covered by blue tarps until getting finished by water-proof coating but we are all super excited to unveil the tarp very soon!

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