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T_ADS Obuchi Lab is the Master of Engineering in Architecture and Urbanism course at the University of Tokyo. Obuchi Lab is dedicated to the research on the emergence of global network society and its effect on architecture, urbanism and design culture. It is an interdisciplinary experimental design research laboratory connecting architecture, engineering and computations to theorize and to develop design proposals for the contemporary environments.
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Obuchi Lab + Harvard GSD Tokyo Site Visit 1
We visited the world’s largest glass manufacturer, Asahi Glass,
located in Ibaraki Prefecture just north of Tokyo. The company has 4 large-scale factories in Japan, and the one
we visited produces glass sheets mainly used for architectural applications,
i.e., windows, doors, skylights and glass roofs. The factory was so big that we
had to take a bus to move from one facility to next. Sadly we could not take
any pictures inside the factory….