7 June 2012 @ co+laboradović 2012

ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM @ KEIO

Barrie Shelton

held a research seminar

Learning from the Japanese City: Cultural Predispositions in Design

We all carry cultural predispositions acquired through the practice and observation of everyday things - as in Pierre Bordieu's concept of habitus. The actions (as in design) and results (patterns and forms) are so familiar that we do not pause to think - they become 'second nature'.  The seminar will explore spatial predispositions in Japanese culture across several scales from the humble QR code to the structure and appearance of cities with some attention to the Japanese writing system. This is a theme commenced in my book, Learning from the Japanese City.

Barrie Shelton is Associate Professor - Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. His areas of expertise are in urban design, history and theory, and urban morphology, with special interests in East Asia and particularly Japan. He has directed postgraduate urban design and town planning programs at the Universities of Sydney (2002-10) and Tasmania (1990-97). His most important recent works are The Making of Hong Kong: from Vertical to Volumetric (co-author 2011) and Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East from Urban Design (2012), both published by Routledge, London & NY. He is an executive member of the International Society for Engineering and Design (ISHED).

 a co+labo update

FIELDWORK MELBOURNE DOCKLANDS

co+labo team has completed the fieldwork for a major urban design-reserach project to be conducted in the laboratory June-October 2012

(details to be posted soon)

Akatsuka,

Radovic,

Kato,

Suzuki,

Ishikawa,

Kozono,

Minegishi @ StKilda Pier

co+labo fieldwork team in action

16 May 2012

co+laboradović research seminar

Research-in-progress presentations Milica Muminović and Pega Sanoamuang

Milica and Pega presented their work on Branding Yanesen: the role of re-memory in preservation of assembled identity of place and The impacts of introducing new transportation networks in a neighborhood; Case study Wat Mangkorn station, Bangkok and received rich feedback from discussion panel - Honda Satoshi (Keio), Hashimoto Tamao (Geidai), Julian Worrall (Waseda), Jorge Almazan (Keio), Heide Imai (Hosei), Wanyu Shi (UNU) and Davisi Boontharm (Deakin, who joined discussion on-line).

Presenters 

Honda Satoshi (Keio), Hashimoto Tamao (Geidai), Julian Worrall (Waseda), Komatsu Katsuhiko (Keio co+labo), Jorge Almazan (Keio), Heide Imai (Hosei), Wanyu Shi (UNU).

***LATEST***

27 April 2012
co+laboradović wins an international design competition

THE NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE HOUSE in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido

Following public presentation and a final session of the Jury (Professors Kuma, Nishiro and Kaijima) at the United Nations University, Tokyo, the  co+labo team - Millica Muminović,  Komatsu Katsuhiko, Hashida Wataru, Shinohara Masato, Kato Yoshiaki and Sasamura Yoshihiro have been declared winners of the international design competition for the NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE HOUSE in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido - ahead of the teams from Tshingua University, China Academy of Art, Columbia University, MIT, AA School of Architecture, Aalto University,  Technische Universität München, Politecnico di Milano, ETH Zürich, Universitetet i Oslo, Tohoku University.
The runners up were the teams of Aalto University,  Finland ( the Five Three House project, Professor Kimmo Lylykangas) and ETH, Switzerland (the Transient Boundary project, Professor Arno Schlueter).

With this win, the co+labo's Barn House project, has received a generous TOSTEM award, which includes design development and construction. The opening of the Barn House is tentatively scheduled for December 2012.

Milica Muminović and Komatsu Katsuhiko presenting and defending the co+labo scheme, and with their colleagues from the ETH and Aalto University, after receiving the Award

co+labo members with Darko after the announcement of the winners

***LATEST***
COMPETITION NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE HOUSE in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido

co+labo shortlisted

As reported in February, co+labo was invited to take part in an exciting design competition for NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE HOUSE in Taiki-cho, Hokkaido - along with nine other selected top schools of architecture (Tshingua University, China Academy of Art, Columbia University, MIT, AA School of Architecture, Aalto University,  Technische Universität München, Politecnico di Milano, ETH Zürich, Universitetet i Oslo, Tohoku University and - Keio/co+labo)


The results of the first phase of the competition have been released, and three works for second and decisive phase have been selected:

• Aalto University,  Finland ( the Five Three House project, Professor Kimmo Lylykangas) 
• ETH, Switzerland (the Transient Boundary project, Professor Arno Schlueter)
• Keio University, co+labo (the Barn project, Professor Darko Radović) 

co+labo student competition team:
         Millica Muminović 
         Komatsu Katsuhiko 
         Hashida Wataru
         Shinohara Masato 
         Kato Yoshiaki
         Sasamura Yoshihiro




The second phase of judging will be open to public, held 27 April 2012 1.30-5.30 p.m. at the United Nations University in Aoyama, Tokyo. 
You can find more information and images (in Japanese language) at the KENCHIKU www site.
















You can register your attendance at the final presentation and session of the Jury at United Nations University at http://www.kenchiku.co.jp/event/detail.php?id=3436.