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Obuchi Lab (G30)
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The lab explores how digital technologies can open up ways of making architecture that anyone can take part in.
AboutAbout the lab
Design research connecting architecture, engineering, and computation
The Obuchi Lab conducts interdisciplinary design research that connects architecture, engineering, and computation.
Its theme is "inclusive digital fabrication," in which everyone in society can take part.
The lab aims to use technological progress not only to raise productivity but also to build systems for making architecture in which anyone can participate.
At the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the lab created a work using a system that conveys spatial information to on-site workers in real time.
Key terms
- Digital fabrication
- A method of making objects with robots, 3D printers, and similar equipment, based on data designed on a computer
- Aquaponics
- A system that combines raising fish with hydroponic plant cultivation, circulating water to grow both
- 3D printer
- A machine that builds three-dimensional objects from data by layering material little by little
ResearchResearch themes
Through interdisciplinary design research connecting architecture, engineering, and computation, the lab explores new discussions about architecture and cities. Under the theme of "inclusive digital fabrication," in which everyone in society can take part, it works in the following areas.
*Illustrative imageArchitecture built by sound
For "PAFF," an architecture built by sound rather than visual information, the lab developed a system in which workers distinguish sound sources in three-dimensional space by listening and shoot fibers toward them. Individual differences in how people perceive space show up in the resulting form.
*Illustrative imageArchitecture circulated by goldfish and plants
"Goldfish Architecture" is an aquaponics device that combines plants and goldfish. Microbial activity, kept stable with IoT, steadies humidity and reduces air pollutants and CO₂.
*Illustrative imageA large-scale 3D printer made from chopsticks
In the "STIK" project, the lab developed a large-scale 3D printer that uses chopsticks as its material. Large quantities of chopsticks behave like granular particles, and they can be gathered and set with adhesive.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYusuke Obuchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “3D-Druck-Haus Wallenhausen 01” Looniverse / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Architecture built by sound: “Unknown Sound Spectrogram” Daniel Hilse / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Architecture circulated by goldfish and plants: “Koi and Goldfish in 1000 Gallon Aquaponics System” Alabama Extension / CC0 (cropped)
- A large-scale 3D printer made from chopsticks: “Chopsticks (59810130)” Jamie Hamel Smith / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ikeda Lab (Architectural Informatics)): “ICD Research Pavilion 2011 Stuttgart 01” MSeses / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Tachi Lab (Origami Engineering)): “Origami semi-periodic tessellation” Origamicke / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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