Paper presented at CAADRIA 2023, India

Our employee presented a paper at CAADRIA 2023 (held in India).

We have been focusing on research and development activities in the exterior area from the viewpoint of façade engineering.
With the aim of widely disseminating our research results to society, we are actively publicizing them by presenting them at conferences of the Architectural Institute of Japan and submitting them to the Technical Report Collection of the Architectural Institute of Japan.

Title of paper: CONSTRUCTION OF A FREE-FORM PAVILION USING ON-SITE PLYWOOD BENDING WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF FABRICATION TOOLS
Authors: Hiroki Awaji, Mori Hayashi, Tomoyuki Gondo
https://caadria2023.org/

This study proposed a low-cost, unskilled 3D wood bending method and produced a full-scale mockup.

▼What is CAADRIA?
The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) promotes education and research in “CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design CAADRIA was established in 1996 as an independent, non-profit, academic organization to promote CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design) education and research in Asia, with the following objectives
▪ To promote the dissemination of CAAD information among schools of architecture, planning, engineering, and building sciences in Asia.
▪ To facilitate the exchange of staff, students, experience, courseware, and software among schools.
▪ To identify research and development needs in CAAD education and initiate collaborations to meet them.
▪ To promote CAAD research and education that enhances creativity over productivity.