Advanced Design Studies Blog: Critical Mass
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.
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.
Here is a video of the progress on the 2015 DFL Pavilion, TOCA.
Yusuke gave a talk at the Tokyo Wonder Site last Friday as part of Obuchi Lab’s exhibition. The exhibition features past 5 years of lab’s research agenda on Cybernetic Urbanism.
Structural experiments are underway in the lab for the upcoming pavilion project.
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!
