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Soft-kill Pavilion-X TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2013

【Exhibition】Soft-kill Pavilion-X

2013.10.27~11.04 at TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2013, Meiji Jingu Gaien,Shinjuku,Tokyo

Studio-X Tokyo and DIGITAL STUDIO exhibit the ”Soft-kill Pavilion-X”for TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2013.

”Soft-kill Pavilion-X” is the pavilion which is made with 36 steel pipes.

All pipes are cut in 3D laser cutting machine ”3D Fabri Gear 400 MKⅡ” which is installed at Shioya Sangyo,Ltd in Fukushima　and all pipes are jointed without bolt,screw and welding.

In designing process, we used a software INSPIRE produced by Altair Engineering,Inc for structural analysis so as to get closer to our design concept ”unstable stability structure”.

  The exhibition continues from October 24 to November 4 ,from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

We are looking forward to your visit.

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OBLIVION Kesennuma Memorial for Tomorrow

OBLIVION

KESENNUMA MEMORIAL FOR TOMORROW

Kudo Lynne Studio GSAPP Studio-X Tokyo(SHIBAURA HOUSE 3F)2013.10.18.5-8pm Hirose Daisuke:Opening Studio Master:Lynne Breslin Kunio Kudo Jury: Michael Shulan

Kunihiro Misu

Yoshihiko Sano

Senhiko Nakata

Tsuyoshi Matsuhata

Tom Heneghan

Karen Severn

Yumi Kori

Koichi Mori

Makoto Watanabe

Yoko Watanabe

  *Free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/studio_x_new_york_columbia_gsapp/10739273014

http://www.flickr.com/photos/studio_x_new_york_columbia_gsapp/10739143775

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Inspire-X: briefing session

With global design support, Studio-X will build a digital fabrication arbor at Tokyo Designers Week 2013, from 26th October through 4th November. Studio-X will disclose the ideas and schedules which you can join with on September 11.

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Friday, September 11th, 2013, 05:00 – 07:00 pm

Studio-X Tokyo (SHIBAURA HOUSE 1F), 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Schedule:

05:00 pm - Start accepting

05:15 pm - Start Lecture

07:00 pm - Close

*Free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

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X On News

  On its top page, as a headline news,   Tokyo based major daily building news paper, the Kensetsu Tushin Shinbun covered the Studio-X Tokyo Edge Technology Work Shop at the Shioya Industry Co., Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture, as the major break through with CNC.

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Tea Ceremony of the Five Axis Arbor (五軸庵)

Studio-X Tokyo Edge Technology Workshop for Fukushima Phoenix Project 

2013.8.5~8.9 at the SHIOYA Industry Co., Ltd. Onahama, Fukushima

  In Onahama, a fishermen village and an industrial port, some fifty miles away northern from the Fukushima Daiichi, the Studio-X workshop team, led by Daisuke Hirose, Director got together at the SHIOYA Industry Co., to unleash a newly installed 2 million dollars five axis leaser cutter fresh from the manufacturer, both in its software and machine itself.   

The Liberal Democratic Party Abe government, which twice beat Democratic Party definitively at both Lower and Upper House elections,  successfully started releasing trillions of yen fund smoothly to the disaster regions, to support not only individual tsunami sufferer's housing, rebuilding suffered villages or supplying state of art fishing boats to fishermen, but also to wide range of cutting edge high-tech industries including advanced medical technology to　expect rebounding the regional economy and eventually entire Japan's. The two million dollars five axis cutter of Shioya Industry is expected to supply Fukushima Daiichi and related facilities the ever most efficient way of cutting and connecting different size and shape of steel tubes with exotic angles each other. It's also assumed to provide powerful/ economical means to carve out propel blades fore series of electric generator wind mills, which plan to be floated on the sea 30 miles away from Fukushima Daiichi. GSAPP Studio-X Tokyo under Daisuke Hirose is planning to promote this green alternative project associating with Power of Art.

The object of the workshop was to fabricate a traditional tea house from steel and  carry out an authentic traditional tea ceremony in or on it. The contrast and contradiction between cutting edge technology and tradition was the theme. But that wasn't easy way to go. The team struggled to overcome endless glitches of computer script and machine's nature. The machine was a virgin and hold lots of secret behind her.

After five days and nights, all the joints were curved out and installed to make a tea house named Five Axis Arbor. At nine o'clock in the morning on fifth day, the authentic tea ceremony was taken place by Master Teru, under a flying steel structure, on a torturing stern steel Tatami, as an ultimate expression of Zen extreme way.

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War & Peace of Kenzo Tange

War & Peace of Kenzo Tange

- How a genius responded War and Peace in design

Lecturer:

Tsuyoshi Matsuhata, Architect, Architectural Critique

This session mainly focuses on Kenzo Tange’s three early projects, namely,

The Great Far Eastern Co-prospective Sphere Memorial Project in 1941,

Thai-Japanese Cultural Center in Bangkok Project in 1943, and Hiroshima Peace Center in 1951,

as well as their backgrounds.

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Friday, August 9th, 2013, 05:00 – 07:00 pm

Studio-X Tokyo (SHIBAURA HOUSE 1F), 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Schedule:

05:00 pm - Start accepting

05:15 pm - Start Lecture

07:00 pm - Close

*Free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

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Structure of National Aesthetics: What Beauty Means to Nation ?

The first Abe cabinet held high a policy banner saying "Beautiful Japan" and perished like a cherry blossom. Then the book "The Aesthetic Tone of Nation (Kokka no Hinkaku)" by a reputed Harvard grad mathematician Fujiwara criticized US as the ugliest country while Japan the most beautiful. (Ironically Chinese represent US with two letters meaning Beautiful+Country.) Forty years ago, Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in literature and made the award lecture titled "Beautiful Japan who made me (Utsukushi Nihon no Watashi)" and perished himself with gas four years later after Mishima who had committed Harakiri to questing Beauty of Nation, while Kenzaburo Ohe who won the same prize twenty years later made the speech titled "Delirious Japan and me" How do you define aesthetical quality of a nation? In the near past, so many unstained beautiful youths perished themselves for Beautiful Nation. It wasn't by terror nor money that made the total mobilization possible, but dedication to invisible/ intangible sublime total. That is the source of Fascio. Since 311 triple disasters, Japanese bureaucrats have campaign "Cool Japan", meaning ??? They started using light blue, Columbia college color, yielding Japanese historical trade hot red color to Korean.

Opening Address:

Daisuke Hirose (GSAPP, Studio-X Tokyo Director)

Keynote:

Kunio Kudo (GSAPP, Professor of Architecture)

Guest Discussant:

Tom Henegan (Professor of Architecture,Tokyo Art University)

Tsuyoshi Matsuhata (Architect, Architectural Critique, Tokyo University of Science)

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Monday, July 22nd, 2013, 05:30 – 07:00 pm

Studio-X Tokyo (SHIBAURA HOUSE 1F), 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Schedule:

05:15 pm - Start accepting

05:30 pm - Start lecture and discussion

Theme: "Structure of National Aesthetics:What Beauty Means to Nation ? "

07:00 pm - Close

*Free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

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Fukushima Phoenix Project "How much radiation now ?"

On 3.11.2011, unprecedented triple-fold disasters—a magnitude 9 earthquake, a 40-meter-high tsunami, a nuclear meltdown and its subsequent radioactive pollution—struck, swept away, and contaminated much of Northeastern Japan. Some 20,000 people were killed or reported missing; over 4,000 houses were lost. 561 square kilometers of land were salinized and left completely non-arable. To the Japanese nation, this was a second defeat after WWII. It was a metaphysical disaster.

Still, and perhaps most surprising, has been the Japanese people's robust ability to restore themselves and their land in silence and order. There were neither riots nor vandalism following 3.11. Lost purses, lost safes were recovered. Three months after the disaster, almost all of the region's roads and railways had been re-opened. Six months after the disaster, the Shinkansen bullet railway—product of Japan's national pride—returned to full service, and the washed-out airport was cleaned and opened once again. And, the local fishermen themselves salvaged nearly all of the 200-years-worth of underwater debris from the bays. Now three years passed since then. The area is physically restored (at least scares are invisible to foreigner's eyes) and even economically started re-bouncing, but still lots of people lives in shelters or disaster housings with broken heart and broken family. Those are invisible and intangible kind of scares; silent threat of radiation. Informations are still under control by the name of social stability. Nobody can access to real and over all and moment by moment, place by place radiation info. It can be in food. It can be in water, on the ground or in the air. Followings are very limited but local and first hand information we got at the citizen's conference at the Science Cafe of Onahama ( fishermen's village town, some fifty kilometer away from the Fukushima Daiichi) in the Fukushima prefecture, plus our own research. (Map of Japan indicating the location of Onahama and Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant)

In the Sea and Fish:

Mr. Junichi Kamiyama, Senior Researcher, Fukushima Prefecture Fisheries Experiment Station, reported his research result since the disaster in detail, combining with government information inside the Fukushima Daiichi Plant Port. Surprising finding was that no radiation was detected in the sea water out-side the nuke plant port after September, 2011. If no data manipulation by government, it is a great news for Japanese, but might be diffused in larger area and might be accumulated in some fish or some plants. As to fish and other sea livings, they found heavier radiation above 50m deep but below 50m it was reduced proportionally. It is natural they found heavier radiation from fishes of near sea such as a flat fish and a flounder, still containing 1000 Becquerel per Kilogram or less as to 2013, but infant sardines which are quickly reproduced, fishes circulating in the larger sea such as bonito, or living in deep are safe. No radiation is detected these days. So are Crabs, clams squids, octopus, Mr. Kamiyama reported.

In the Business (Radiation Fuhyo):

Mr. Toshihito Ono, Head of Onahama Marine Product Union, emphasized the need of close association of fishing, production industries and sales sector to overcome Radiation Fuhyo ( baseless negative reputation).

He insisted they never sent any radiated fish or related products into the market since disaster, but kept suffered from negative reputation by negative behaviors of adjacent industries including agriculture and livestock industry. They survived through their own effort and traditional surviving business wisdom since the Edo period, but still couldn't over come Fuhyo damage. Even though detected radiation from their fish and products were zero or near zero, consumer kept relying on Fuhyo. He begged citizen by saying " I'm not asking you to eat our fish and product, but just beg your belief with us"

In the Air:

We measured radiation in air with GPS tool in iPhone and Geiger counter which we did same technic and pass in 2011. The detected DATA has micro millimeter Sieverts for each point, degrees of latitude, longitude, altitude and time. We will visualize the DATA in 3D landscape.

Original-PDF is here.

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Days with Antigone

X on X 2013 vol.02

Ampo, Architecture and Art in 1960

Mutuko Fukuda, Princess Antigone on stage Eihiko Nozaki, King Creon on stage Takatune Fukami, Prince Emon on stage Junjiro Katuragawa, Stage Design Kunio Kudo, Director

*Open to public *No RSVP

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Lecture Series 2013 Summer

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Lunch Time Talk -Is Tokyo Burning?

[POSTPONED]

Lecture Series 2013 Summer vol.1

Lunch Time Talk：

Is Tokyo Burning? @Studio-X Tokyo, Shibaura House 2-4pm

Guest Lecturer: Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Columbia University, East Asian Department

※Open to public      

※Admission Free         

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Mid-review: Vishaan and Galia Studio

Vishaan Chakrabarti and Galia Solomonoff are jointly teaching a design studio with architecture and real estate students at Columbia University, where I serve as Director of the Real Estate Development Program and as Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE.) and Professor Solomonoff is Assistant Professor of Architecture.

The focus of the studio is Tokyo itself, demographic shifts, and environmental resilience. Vishaan and Galia are working at the scale of a building in the Ginza district and at the scale of a neighborhood by looking at development possibilities within Tokyo Bay. Galia, Vishaan, Omar Toro-Vaca, Andy Vann, Daisuke Hirose, other colleagues and 19 students will be in Tokyo the week of March 18-22. As part of our agenda there, they would very much appreciate the opportunity to meet and discuss you on the mid-term review at Studio-X Tokyo, Shibaura House. Please come and see their cross-cultural initiative in this Architecture / Real Estate Development studio.

9am - 1pm, Tuesday 19th March, 2013 at Studio-X Tokyo, Shibaura House

Open to public

Free entrance

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Code Dojo Vol.4 -Dojo Yaburi-

Studio X Tokyo  will hold “CODE DOJO” on March 9. CODE DOJO is the place where processing coders compete each other on programing skill of processing .

Masters: Toru Hasegawa, Mark collins and Daisuke Hirose

Date: 2013.3.9(SAT.)  2PM - 5PM

Place: 1st floor, Studio X Tokyo

Reservation is NOT required. Admission Free.

Please prepare your laptop PC  installed “processing”.

*Mark Collins and Toru Hasegawa Studio with students from GSAPP  takes a study tour to Japan at this time.

*DOJO is written “a place of the way” in Japanese. Therefore, it is used to express a place to train martial arts such as judo and kendo and so on.

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This Friday at 5pm, Tokyo Lab will host the first X on X and virtually connect with Directors from all Studio-X locations - Amman, Beijing, Mumbai, New York and Rio - for micro-presentations on activities from around the global network. Click for more details.

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Dean Wigley visits

Dean Mark Wigley came to Studio-X Tokyo at SHIBAURA HOUSE on Jan.28. His main purpose was to discuss on the prospect and strategy of Studio-X Tokyo with Masaru Ito (Owner of SHIBAURA HOUSE), Haruka Yokokawa (the owner’s staff), Nao Nishiyama(Studio-X Tokyo, assistant), Kunio Kudo (Studio-X Tokyo Principal) and Daisuke Hirose (Studio-X Tokyo Director).

Past activities like lecture series, exhibition and workshop at Studio-X have built a close relationship with major cities (NYC, Mumbai, Tokyo, and so on). Dean Wigley said that many people from not only architecture but also different fields (Art, economics, politician and so on…) could be mixed, have a philosophical discussion each other and approach urban and architectural problem in a practical manner. He hopes that Studio-X is a place for such a new form of creativity and communication.

Masaru emphasized with the concept that Studio-X holds. His main business is advertisement, his company name ”Kohkoku Seihansha”, and his true purpose of his work is contribution to society such as improving educational issues and creating open to public space where all kind of creators can use as the space for event and workshop. Masaru said that Studio-X Tokyo is a partner to achieve these contributions.

Dean Wigley showed us an analytical drawing about the number of past activities such an exhibition, speech and workshop. He explained that Studio-X Tokyo, that is a new laboratory established about 18 month ago, do not catch up with other laboratory like Studio-X NYC now however Studio-X Tokyo will and should grow more exponentially than last year. Actually, most of past participants in Studio-X Tokyo were people involved and the social circle was a bit limited.

For the near future, it is necessity that more people from wide range of field can participate in our activities and can be interested in them. And so, we will plan to hold an exhibition like “What is global Studio-X?” on this spring in Studio-X Tokyo. The exhibition will includes the contents about not only Tokyo Lab. but also any other Laboratories. It will be a good opportunity for people in academic fields to know about the activities of Studio-X. We will announce that at a later date.

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GSAPP New Year Wine Talk: Home Unique Home

Mr. Miwa, senior researcher of Mori Memorial Foundation, strategic planner for Roppongi Hills, found a wonder oku-ness in Tokyo for his family and himself, after a long journey of solving mega-city Tokyo’s issues. Today, Greater Tokyo became to the top of the world rank in GNP as well as in safety, cleanness, efficiency, social stability, hospitality, transportation, etc. etc, the most envious urbanism in the world and its millions of jewelry nano-housing attracts world civilized population with its pristine craftsmanship and quire sub-cultures, which, once, were looked down as rabbit sheds in colossal village.

Yasuyuki Miwa (Senior Researcher, Mori Memorial Foundation)

Karen Severns and Koichi Mori (Tokyo based movie directors and foreign correspondences)

Taketo Nishikubo (Founder Architect, Niko Design Studio)

Yumi Kori (Studio-μ)

Kunio Kudo (Studio-X Tokyo Principal, GSAPP, Columbia University)

Daisuke Hirose (Studio-X Director, GSAPP, Columbia University)

New Year Wine Talk: Home Unique Home @ Studio-X

TokyoFriday, January 11th, 2013, 5:00-7:00PM

Studio-X Tokyo (SHIBAURA HOUSE 3F), 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo

*Free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

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Studio-X and TUS won the gold medal in the Obuse 7-University Competition 2012 !

<About Obuse 7-University Workshop 2012>

The Obuse 7-University Workshop 2012 was held on November 11th at Obuse town in Nagano prefecture. The seven university teams came from both east and west Japan and the United States, and included the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Tokyo University of the Arts, Y-GSA of Yokohama National University, Osaka City University, Chiba Institute of Technology, and a joint team of Tokyo University of Science and Studio-X at Columbia University. Each team spent two days of intensive research in Obuse, and proposed projects for Machizukuri (urban development) based on their investigations. The teams then presented for competition on the third day. Proposals were to propose design solutions to reinvigorate Obuse’s various sites, and to speculate how similar methods could be deployed in small towns and villages across the country and around the world.

The teams proposed a variety of solutions around Machizukuri, such as utilizing vacant houses as training facilities with student housing, and creating new scenery by using the town’s numerous existing waterways.

The TUS-Studio X team proposed projection mapping at historic sites to provide public lighting and community space. Seeing that the town has a population of about 11,000 but is visited annually by 1 million day-trippers, the team found an opportunity to extend the hours of the day when people would enjoy the space. The proposal would provide evening light to the town’s dark streets while simultaneously creating gathering spaces around outdoor events. Over three nights, the team performed its concept: a site-specific visual projection and soundtrack to map the changing seasons onto a historic building. The projection mapping illuminated the life story of the building in its natural setting, while provoking participatory imaginings about the site’s future. A series of similar projections was then proposed for other historic buildings and public spaces in Obuse, creating a path of light, leading individuals or groups to experience the town through discovery. The proposal was recognized for its potential to aid regional development, and was awarded first place. The team from Osaka City University won second place for re-designing vacant houses.

The workshop was the first of its kind to propose design ideas for the future of small towns in Japan. All the teams worked round-the-clock for three days, making this workshop very exciting and ultimately productive.