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Pavilion Symposium

December 4, 2014 in Exhibition, Lecture, Pavilion, Project, Symposium

The new pavilion is just about completed, just in time for the Symposium, the topic of which is:

Machinery and Human and Construction: Architecture in the Age of Cyborgs

If you are in Tokyo this weekend, please join us on Sunday December 7 from 13:00 to 18:00 at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering Building 1 No. 15 lecture room.

Speakers include: Obuchi Yusuke (University of Tokyo professor), Matthias Kohler (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Professor ), Takeo Igarashi (University of Tokyo professor), Kengo Kuma (University of Tokyo Professor).

There will be a reception afterwards from 18:00-19:00.

For more details, refer to our lab’s other BLOG

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Pavilion 2014: New Model Construction Pt2: Beginning

August 5, 2014 in Pavilion

Last week, we had scaffolding set up in our lab space.

After some troubleshooting with our scanning and projection software, we are finally ready to begin the actual construction of the new model. Here are some photos of the progress!

This model will be constructed from approximately 50-60 thousand sticks.