Arch CU welcoming ritual #2011

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Minna no Ie (House for Everyone)

This is a project aiming to give hope for those who lost their homes in the Eastern Japan disaster by introducing the spirit of agriculture society in our architecture. We decided to submit 2 proposals, irrigation tubes and plating frame.

 I am working on the planting frame option.

 I planned to mimic the negative phototropism process in plant growing behavior  to generate our geometry. By planting several seeds into surface of the mesh tube filled with processed wood debris, the seed would eventually sprout and only the sprouts that exposed to sunlight would grow.

These plant’s roots would also grow and add more mass to the tube along one side, causing a slight bend to the opposite direction of sunlight at each spot. Series of bending spots would accumulate and generate continuous curvatures to global geometry of the tube.

 The propagation spacing would also generate different curvatures which allow us to control the overall geometry and form functional space below the structure.

a video presentation of our project made for midterm review

an on going work for a design competition

 profiling

 basic shape

 inner layer of soft exo-structure

 outer layer of soft exo-structure

ready for fabrication!

a share house project in shibuya

Power shortages caused by the reactor incident in Fukushima has subsequently raised a big concern in energy consumption issue all over Japan. In my lab, we are also thinking about this issue. What if there is a place for people in the town to share the usage of energy in their daily life activities, can this change in lifestyle save the world? (well, at least in energy consumption aspect) Based on that idea, we proposed a big residential complex in a shape of hollow cube to be place over a high density business area. Aside from sharing facilities from different programs, we also aim to balance the energy usage between the activities in day time and night time.