August 2019 – University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Art, Hashimoto Laboratory

Inofes 2019

INNOVATION WORLD FESTA 9 was held at Roppongi Hills on September 28th and 29th.

One of those events was the Tsukuba Innovation Terrace, and graduate students from our laboratory, Kurihara-kun and Ito-san, participated in the exhibition space design.

Hashimoto was asked to supervise the exhibition space design.

The design concept for the exhibition space was ``Saimori's environment - the latest innovations born from TSUKUBA,'' and the space was decorated using dead branches obtained on the University of Tsukuba campus, wood and greenery from the Tsukuba Mountains.

“Saishin” is a word coined by Hashimoto.

Students from the College of Fine Arts' departments of environmental design, architectural design, information and product design, and crafts are involved in the decoration.

The person in charge is Mr. Sunaga, a second-year design major.

I think it was a tough job, but I did my best.

Additionally, we were able to use wood and greenery from the Tsukuba Mountains with the cooperation of Kanbayashi Sawmill.I'm really thankful to you.

The venue was in a corner of Roppongi Hills, next to TOHO Cinemas.

Kurihara-kun is setting up an exhibition space that resembles a corner of a clothing store.

This is what it looked like on the day.Kurihara is in charge of the design.

Mr. Ito was in charge of the decorative design using the planting.

Plants from the Tsukuba Mountains decorate the shelves.

A darkroom built using local wood from Mt. Tsukuba.Designed by Kurihara-kun.

To Kyoto Prefectural University

Last weekend, I participated in the "Home and Lifestyle Design Research 2019 Results Presentation" held at Kyoto Prefectural University.

Students from Daido University's Watanabe Lab, Meijo University's Ishii Lab, Kyoto Prefectural University's Nagano Lab, and Tsukuba University's Hashimoto Lab gave presentations, and Professor Horikoshi from Aichi Sangyo University also participated.

There were 29 presentations by 25 students.

There were many questions from the students, and the discussion was lively.

I was surprised that both Mr. Urakawa and Mr. Mizuhata's presentations were better than their presentation practice at the seminar.

The social gathering after the presentation.

Architectural Institute of Japan Conference 2019 (Hokuriku)

This report is quite late, but I attended the Architectural Institute of Japan Convention (Hokuriku) earlier this month.

The venue was Kanazawa Institute of Technology.

This year, myself and a graduate student, Mr. Ito, gave presentations.

Both contents are reports of research on Kakeroma Island, the Amami Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Mr. Ito gave a presentation on the enclosure of residences, mainly hedges, in the Sukomo village on Kakeroma Island.

Hashimoto gave a presentation on tree landscapes throughout Kakeroma Island, and he gave a presentation on the current situation of the large trees and coastal windbreaks in Mya, which is the space for Noro rituals and the village's plaza.

The image above is a stone wall found in the city of Kanazawa.The Mammoth Society's Architectural Institute conferences are large, packed with sessions as segmented as this stone wall.