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FORMAKERS will take advantage of the "digital fabrication REvolution". We publish projects of urban design/ architectural research/ fashion design/ 3d print/ parametric design / architecture model /photography and much more.FORMAKERS invites architects, designers, artists, students, scientists and individuals of all backgrounds to explore, research and investigate new design paradigms and urban visions.

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11FEB 2012

Digital Tea House Workshop / Columbia University + University of Tokyo

Posted in Architecture - Pavilion by * FORMAKERS | Tags: University of Tokyo, Columbia University

The notion of learning via the body parallels the regimented practice of the Japanese Tea Ceremony called Sado.

The ceremony or “the path of the tea,” is reflected in the tectonics of the spaces where it is performed, yet the practice of architecture has become digitized, often leaving behind this personal connection one might have to materiality.

We seek to use act of constructing to allow the body to be the medium of learning, applying learned physical actions to intelligent digital techniques.

The project was a three week design-build charette in which twenty students from Columbia University and The University of Tokyo designed and built three modular and demountable “Digital Tea Houses" which were displayed at the University of Tokyo and later at Tokyo galleries.