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Tokyo’s prestigious Ginza District, is home to innovative architectural design. One of the most recent examples is Ginza Six (GSIX), the largest
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective
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The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that
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