Ninety Nine Failures Exhibition

The exhibition featuring our forthcoming pavilion is now on display at the Engineering Building #11 at the Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo through December 7th.

Exhibition
Open： Weekday only, 7:00 – 19:00 (free of charge)
Location: Department of Architecture, Engineering Building No.11, Lobby on 1st Floor

Opening Reception
Date: Sunday, November 24th, 17:00 – 19:00
Location: Department of Architecture, Engineering Building No.11, 1st Floor Lobby (free of charge)

Symposium: Ninety Nine Failures

“Ninety Nine Failures – The University of Tokyo Digital Fabrication Lab Pavilion 2013”
Exhibition Period: Monday, November 25th – Saturday, December 7th　
Organized by: Advanced Design Studies, Department of Architecture, the University of Tokyo
Curated by: Digital Fabrication Lab, Department of Architecture, the University of Tokyo / Obayashi Cooperation
URL： http://www.obuchilab.com/dfl/

Project Team (the University of Tokyo):
Yusuke Obuchi, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, So Sugita, Christopher Sjorberg, Yeonsang Shin, Miguel Puig, Zhang Ye, Ana Luisa Soares, Ma Sushuang, Tong Shan, Andrea Trajkovska, Quangtuan Ta, Wei Wang, Anders Rod, Benjamin Berwick, Qiaomu Jin, Fawad Osman, Yanli Xiong, Andrea Bagniewski, Kevin Clement, Ornchuma Saraya, Minjie Xu
Project Team (Obayashi Corporation):
Tomoo Yamamoto, Kenichi Misu, Gendai Ono, Yasuo Ichii, Keisuke Fujiwara, Shunsuke Niwa, Tatsuji Kimura, Masaru Emura, Taiki Byakuno, Takahide Okamoto
Structural Engineer: Jun Sato
Fabrication of the components: Tsukasa Takenaka (AnS Studio)

Pavilion
Open: All day, 10:00 – 17:00
Location: Square in front of Department of Architecture, Engineering Building No.1

Exhibition
Open： Weekday only, 7:00 – 19:00
Location: Department of Architecture, Engineering Building No.11, Lobby on 1st Floor

Opening Reception
Date: Sunday, November 24th, 17:00 – 19:00
Location: Department of Architecture, Engineering Building No.11, Lobby on 1st Floor, (free of charge)

Symposium: “Infinite Potentials of Making Problems”
Date: Sunday, December 1st, 13:00 – 15:00
Location: Dpartment of Architecture, Engineering Building No.1, Lecture Hall 15
Lecturere: Kengo Kuma (Professor, the University of Tokyo) / Yusuke Obuchi (Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo) / Project team, Obayashi Cooperation, Jun Sato(Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo), Tsukasa Takenaka (AmS Studio), Toshikatsu Kiuchi (the University of Tokyo), Students Project team (the University of Tokyo)
Modelator: Tomohiko Yamanashi (NIKKEN SEKKEI)

Sponsors: Haseko Corporation, Kajima Corporation, LIXIL Corporation, Nomura, Obayashi Corporation, Okamura, Panasonic, Shimizu Corporation, Takenaka Corporation, Taisei Corporation, TOTO

Symposium: Architectural Theory Now

Here is info of a symposium to be held at the University of Tokyo on December 1st, 2013.


Symposium : Architectural Theory Now

Organized by: Advanced Design Studies, Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo
Curated by: Media Initiative Lab, Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo
Date and Time: December 1st, Sunday, 17:00 – 19:30
Location: Department of Architecture Engineer Building No.1, Lecture Hall (Room 15), The University of Tokyo
Speakers: Fumihiko Maki, Arata Isozaki, Hroshi Hara
Moderator: Kengo Kuma (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
URL: http://www.obuchilab.com/dfl/

Different Brick - Real Size Thinking 2013 Competetion

Three of our recently graduated students were awarded in REAL SIZE THINKING 2013 competition when they were given the opportunity to build a prototype of the system they were developing as their thesis project.

Different brick is about developing an innovative masonry system based on simple production methods fully supported by highly customized digital tools. It challenges the non-standarized manufacturing processes through the application of computational design in architectural discourse. The production system produces compressed, round-edged, differentiated bricks that can generate doubly curved surfaces when stacked.The main goal was to construct the geometry without using geometrical formwork. For the purpose of the competition, team members proposed a doubly curved wall composed of 600 different bricks.

Real Size Thinking 2013 competition exhibition has started at Shinjuku Park Tower Ozone Gallery last week. Exhibition will be open for visitors until November 26.

Design team: Kyaw Htoo, Ana Ilic, Yasemin Sahiner
Computational support: Dr. Eng. Masaaki Miki

Fabrication team: So Sugita, Ornchuma Saraya, Minjie Xu, Kevin Clement

Different Brick is selected as one of the four finalists

Paper form-work for casting differentiated bricks

Laser cut card-board form-work pieces

Casting team

600 different bricks are ready

Assembly mock-up from above

Assembly mock-up-testing the edge

Pattern of differentiation

Installation has started at Ozone Gallery-8.00 a.m.

Following the assembly guides embedded on the components

Installing the edge components

Assembly in progress

Assembly back-up team arrives

Reading the sequence of assembly on the component

Assembly in progress - reaching row 16

Cable tie connection

Assembly in progress- 9.00 p.m

Overview of the installation 1

Overview of the installation 2

Examination by structural engineer Jun Sato

Final Presentation on November 16

Team members presenting the project

Side view 1

Back view

Front view

Assembly from above

1:3 Summer Pavilion Mock-up at AIJ Tokyo

1:3 mock-up of the G30 Summer Pavilion is on display at Architectural Institute of Japan(AIJ) for Archieering Design Exhibition 2013.  This event was organized to connect architecture and structural engineering design. The mock-up will be exhibited until Nov. 22th.

G30 Summer Pavilion Work in Progress 06

With less than two weeks until the Obayashi company arrives on campus with crane to complete the final pavilion assembly, first year students have been focused and busy producing the various parts and pieces of the pavilion. The assembly of the tension cables finished last week, and attention has been shifted to laser-cutting the plywood pieces for the interior furniture elements, and hydro-inflating the stainless steel compressive components as they arrive from the fabricator in batches of 34, every two days. 

Bolt insertion prior to crimping

Laser-cut template for cable fabrication

Team working outdoors on dual water inflation jigs

Hooking up the water line.

Symposium: Curation as Risk-Taking

In the world of financial market, the higher risks you take, the greater rate of return you may earn or lose. Does this equation apply to the practice of curation for an exhibition or a symposium at museums and galleries? Can we assume that the more risks are involved, the more successful the outcome of the events could be? Or not?

At the University of Tokyo’s Department of Architecture, 8 distinguished guests from the US and Canada are invited to participate in the symposium to discuss their personal experiences of risk-taking while curating exhibitions and/or projects. 

Curation as Risk-Taking
October 22, 2013
17:00 - 21:00 

Symposium at the University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture Coordinated by the Japan Foundation

The invited speakers are:
Timothy Hyde, Associate Professor, Harvard, GSD
Zoe Ryan, Curator, the Art Institute of Chicago
Inderbir Singh Riar, Lecturer, Carleton University
Mark Wasiuta, Adjunct Assistant Professsor, Columbia University
Maria Nicanor, Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Peter Zellner, Architect, Principal, ZELLNERPLUS
Sarah Herda, Executive Director, Graham Foundation
Darrin Alfred, Curator, Denver Art Museum