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.

Summer Pavilion Project with Obayashi Co.

 This year’s G30 Pavilion will be developed as a collaboration project with Obayashi Corporation, one of Japan’s major construction companies. In the past two years, we have built two pavilions at scales that were manageable to G30 students with our limited resources. In order expand our ambitions, we have invited our Digital Fabrication Lab’s sponsors to join our pavilion projects.

As a prototype of temporally structures for Tokyo Olympic 2020, four design proposals were developed by G30's 1^st year design teams, and one was selected by both G30 teaching staff and members of Obayashi Co to be developed further and to be built this summer.

Selected Pavilion Proposal by Ana, Miguel, Leaf