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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. 

G30 Summer Pavilion Work in Progress 01

Published 2013年5月9日 by T—ADS

G30 Summer Pavilion Project has officially kicked off. As two previous pavilion projects, Pro. Jun Sato will join us as our structural engineer.

The structural system was developed as a Tensegrity, connecting varying sizes of components with thin stainless cables, creating a network of tension and compression in the form of stable shell structure. When the components are linked as a 2D surface, it remains as flexible. When the 2D surface is positioned in a specific 3D geometry, it locks into a stable Tensegrity structure.

Summer Pavilion Project with Obayashi Co.

Published 2013年4月22日 by T—ADS

 This year’s G30 Pavilion will be developed as a collaboration project with Obayashi Corporation, one of Japan’s major construction companies. In the past two years, we have built two pavilions at scales that were manageable to G30 students with our limited resources. In order expand our ambitions, we have invited our Digital Fabrication Lab’s sponsors to join our pavilion projects.


As a prototype of temporally structures for Tokyo Olympic 2020, four design proposals were developed by G30’s 1st year design teams, and one was selected by both G30 teaching staff and members of Obayashi Co to be developed further and to be built this summer.


Selected Pavilion Proposal by Ana, Miguel, Leaf

François Roche Workshop, Schizoid 2.0/

Published 2013年4月17日 by T—ADS

Francois Roche gave a 3-day workshop titled, Schizoid 2.0/ BOTTOMup[Vs]TOPdown
The workshop brief states as ‘The Workshop on several days at Tokyo University will be the occasion to re‐question two processes of urbanism, of politic, as a Chimera between;
1. One from a top down management, where everything is previously anticipated and controlled, in terms of master planning and design…
2. The other one which integrates a degree of tolerance, of loophole, in terms of individual and collective strategy of urban mutation and self‐organization.
The purpose is to develop a schizoid urban structure in an emerging city (BKK, Sao Paulo, Ho‐Chi‐Minh,…even in Japan if a location is able to fit with the research) which extracts its logic, morphologies and uses, from the recognition of this schizoid dimension.’

Lecture by Francois Roche

Published 2013年4月14日 by T—ADS

Francois Roche will lecture on Apr. 17th at the University of Tokyo.

François Roche is the principal of New-Territories (R&Sie(n) / [eIf/bʌt/c]). He is based in Bangkok for [eIf/bʌt/c], in Paris for R&Sie(n) and in NY with his studio of research at Graduate School of Architecture, Plannin and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University.
Through these different structures, his architectural works and protocols seek to articulate the real and/or fictional, the geographic situations and narrative structures that can transform them.