While Comprehensive Design Workshop Exhibition is still open in Raiosha, some activities at the margins of our laboratory point at
possible new projects, the excitements to come ... (and - we might be able to report more about that soon).
co+labo is an Architecture and Urban Design Laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo. It is based in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Systems Design Engineering co+labo is involved in education, research and design-research in the fields of architecture and urban design.
21 July 2018
co+labo radović an exciting, historic sight at the entrance to Keio Hiyoshi Campus
This morning, Friday 20 July 2018, for the first time in history of the oldest University in Japan, words KEIO ARCHITECTURE appeared at the entrance to one of the main Campuses - Hiyoshi. The tall banner announces a series of forthcoming events related to our Comprehensive Design Workshop, which will open the next stage in development of studies in the fields of production of space at Keio. Since 2010 co+labo plays the very central role in that process.
As outlined in the recently published Keio Architecture year-book 2016-17, critical contribution to the emergence of Keio Architecture was provided in 2010, by the establishment of an innovative, semi-formal institutional framework of IKI, International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism. In August of that year, IKI, which was imagined and initiated by professors Darko Radović and Kazuyo Sejima (Yagami Campus) and Hiroto Kobayashi (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), was inaugurated in Venice, at Biennale Architettura. Since then, IKI served as a framework for numerous and diverse international research, teaching and design-research activities within broadly defined field of production of space, involving academics and professionals from Keio and various other Japanese and international institutions of renown and global prestige. Further development of teaching and research in the fields of architecture and urban design at Keio demanded consolidation of the achieved quality and steps that would match both the reputation of Keio and its Top Global aspirations. The key step on that journey was the establishment of a broad framework - Keio Architecture. The launch of http://architecture.keio.ac.jp has announced the stream of activities - one of which comes to Hiyoshi Campus.
Over the next several days, this blog will be bringing the snapshots from the key events at Hiyoshi Campus.
As outlined in the recently published Keio Architecture year-book 2016-17, critical contribution to the emergence of Keio Architecture was provided in 2010, by the establishment of an innovative, semi-formal institutional framework of IKI, International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism. In August of that year, IKI, which was imagined and initiated by professors Darko Radović and Kazuyo Sejima (Yagami Campus) and Hiroto Kobayashi (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), was inaugurated in Venice, at Biennale Architettura. Since then, IKI served as a framework for numerous and diverse international research, teaching and design-research activities within broadly defined field of production of space, involving academics and professionals from Keio and various other Japanese and international institutions of renown and global prestige. Further development of teaching and research in the fields of architecture and urban design at Keio demanded consolidation of the achieved quality and steps that would match both the reputation of Keio and its Top Global aspirations. The key step on that journey was the establishment of a broad framework - Keio Architecture. The launch of http://architecture.keio.ac.jp has announced the stream of activities - one of which comes to Hiyoshi Campus.
Over the next several days, this blog will be bringing the snapshots from the key events at Hiyoshi Campus.
14 July 2018
co+labo radović co+labo teams success at Q-City International Student Competition
Yang Xuang, co+labo Masters student who initiated our participation in the "Q-City Plan Competition” summarises that that was an effort to enhance the quality and diversity of micro public spaces in the city of Qinhuangdao (China) which is, among other reasons, famous as the place where the Great Wall of China begins. The aim of the “Q-City Plan” is to achieve effective urban regeneration in its redevelopment process alter the traditional way of urban planning that follows the top- bottom logic and help provide the residents a better quality of life. That perfectly resonated with co+labo values.
Among more than 700 submissions, design proposals by two co+labo teams were recognised by the Jury of the "Planning Beautiful Hebei - Q-City Plan - Qinhuangdao International Student Competition". An International Jury, chaired by Francisco Sanin, Professor at Syracuse University, has shortlisted 34 entries, among which one co+labo team (which included Yang Xuang, Ayumu Magome, Daisuke Kobayashi, Shinichi Nishibori and Hiroki Shigemura (left column image, below) has received the third prize, and the other (with Shun Kato, Keitaro Onishi, Yukie Takasu, Sanja Zonja and Jumpei Kawamoto, below, right) has received a Honourable Mention.
co+labo congratulations to them all! Detailed information about the competition and final results are posted - HERE.
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