computational clay pavilion advanced design studies university of tokyo department of architecture obuchi lab

PAVILION: COMPUTATIONAL CLAY

By in Pavilions, Projects on January 5, 2017

東京大学建築学専攻Digital Fabrication Lab(DFL)では、建築施工におけるデジタル技術の活用をテーマに、毎年実験的なパビリオンを制作しています。単に技術による自動化や高度化を目指すのではなく、そこに「人間が関わること」の可能性を探る実証の場として、これまで「人間と機械が融合した3Dプリンター」(2014年STIKパビリオン)や「巨大3Dペン」(2015年TOCAパビリオン)を建築スケールで再現してきました。

本年Computational Clayプロジェクトでは「人間が関わること」をより一層推し進め、個性としての身体パフォーマンスを建築表現に反映させるため、人の動きと素材と関係に着目したユニークなパネル加工システムを開発しました。

Every year in the University of Tokyo’s Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL), digital fabrication technologies are used to produce an experimental pavilion project. The aim, rather than being simply to achieve automation or precision through use of such technologies, is to explore the potentials for human and machine collaboration. Past projects have focused on fusions between humans and machines through the use of 3D printers: the 2014 STIK Pavilion explored this theme through guided aggregation, and the 2015 TOCA Pavilion by using humans as a parameter along with an oversized 3D pen.

This year, in the Computational Clay Pavilion, we advance the role of the human in construction one step further, examining how an individual’s capabilities and performance can be expressed in an architectural output. We have developed a unique panelized construction system wherein the movements of humans and their relationship to the material are explored.

Project Credits:

主催: 東京大学建築学専攻 Advanced Design Studies(T—ADS)
PRODUCED BY: Advanced Design Studies, Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo

企画: 東京大学建築学専攻 Digital Fabrication Lab(DFL)
鹿島建設株式会社
東京大学大学院情報理工学系研究科コンピュータ科学専攻 五十嵐健夫研究室
東京大学大学院新領域創成科学研究科社会文化環境学専攻 佐藤淳研究室
素材協力: 株式会社エコグリーン、株式会社東邦アーステック(順不同)

PLANNING:
Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL), Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo

IN COLLABORATION WITH:
Kajima Corporation
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Takeo Igarashi Laboratory
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Department Socio-cultural Environmental Studies, Jun Sato Laboratory
MATERIALS PROVIDED BY:
Eco Green, Toho EarthTech (in random order)

UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO DIRECTING PROFESSORS
Yusuke Obuchi (Associate Professor), Department of Architecture
Jun Sato (Professor), Department of Frontier Sciences
Takeo Igarashi (Professor), Department of Computer Science

UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Kensuke Hotta
Shohei Furuichi
Kosuke Nagata
Shuta Takagi
Shuntaro Nozawa
Iris Zhang
Déborah Lopez Lobato
Hadin Charbel
Haoran Xie

SECOND YEAR STUDENT TEAM
Alric Lee
Isaac Yoo
Ittidej Lirapirom
Luca Marulli
Moritz Münzenmaier
Pan Kalin
Victor Hugo Wido

FIRST YEAR STUDENT TEAM
Hirokazu Nakano Tei
Mika Kaibara Portugaise
Nathália Barros Abate Rotelli
Rūta Stankevičiūte
Tom Moss
Tyler Timothy McBeth
Veronika Smetanina
Xiaoke Chen
Yang Ao
Ziyi Wu

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
Emi Shiraishi
Federico Cazzaniga

PHOTOGRAPHS
Toshihiko Kiuchi (Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo)

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