To the place where "good design" was created
Good design, excellent design, design that opens up the future, ideas that move people's hearts, and actions that lead society always have small beginnings.
Interviews with designers at the birthplaces of good design to find hints for the next design.
Destination
VUILD, inc.
Transforming the World of Architecture through Digital Fabrication (Part 1)
2025.02.21
Digital fabrication is attracting attention for accelerating the pace of manufacturing. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications defines digital fabrication as technology which produces creations based on digital data. There are many devices including 3D printers, 3D scanners, CNC milling machines, robotic arms, and sensors, and their expansion within the field of architecture is particularly impressive. The VUILD architectural group is producing cutting-edge examples of this.
House for Marebito, an accommodation facility that was selected for the GOOD DESIGN GOLD AWARD in 2020, was an ambitious work created by meticulously cutting local wood with a digital milling machine and assembling the pieces like a plastic model kit. The company’s founder, Koki Akiyoshi, is pursuing the democratization of architecture and continues to boldly implement this principle in order to bring about a society in which anyone can become a maker. What he has in his sights is changing the Japanese construction industry. It was also an activity to propagate innovation.
Destination
VUILD, inc.
Transforming the World of Architecture through Digital Fabrication (Part 1)
ArticlesHouse for Marebito
VUILD, inc.
It is a joint ownership-type accommodation facility funded through crowdfunding, and built with the introduction of digital fabrication technology. Making use of local timber in a village with a population of about 600, the project proposes a lifestyle in which people move continuously back and forth to mountain villages in a way which feels more than tourism but less than migration. By completing the entire process from timber procurement to processing and construction within a 10 km radius, the project is tackling the problems of forestry decline and marginalization of settlements.
- Award details
- Award details 2020 GOOD DESIGN GOLD AWARD https://www.g-mark.org/en/gallery/winners/9e34f37b-803d-11ed-af7e-0242ac130002
- Designer
- Koki Akiyoshi, Hayato Kurobe, Kazuya Takano, Koki Ogawa, Hanako Kato, VUILD, Inc. (Design) + yasuhirokaneda STRUCTURE Yasuhiro Kaneda (Structure) + DE. Lab (Facility)
Tomoko Ishiguro
Editor/writer
After working in the editorial department of “AXIS,” she became a freelancer. She writes, edits, and plans, with a focus on design and life culture. Her major editorial works include LIXIL BOOKLET series (book, LIXIL Publishing) and “Oishisa no Kagaku” (magazine, NTS Publishing).
Kenji Masunaga
photographer
After working at Roppongi Studio and Nacasa & Partners, he established masphoto in 2013. With a focus on subjects such as architecture, interior design, and landscape, he is active across various genres such as magazines and advertising in general.
