Adaptive Morphology, Kuma – Obuchi Undergrad Design Studio

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 Kentuck Knob

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 Fallingwater

We left our hotel in Upper Westside, Manhattan 5 AM and drove 6 hours straight to visit Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright.

G30 in New York

G30 in Princeton

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

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

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.