 |
|
1. Results Annoucement of the 2nd Virtual Design World Cup
2. VR Conference in London
3. Overseas Training and Seminars
|
|
Title: Noah's Ark -Tokyo
2050-
Team Name: Shibaura Institute of Technology SWD
LAB |
|
|
|
By the sludge collected on the seabed, water has become muddy. Tokyo Bay serves as environment unsuitable to habitation of a marine living thing. A central lens makes sunlight reach the seabed. Phytoplankton begins photosynthesis and supplies oxygen.
A microbe is activated and sludge is decomposed. Marine living things flock
in quest of the purified sea water.
Tokyo Bay serves as a place which
overflows with living things again.
And "Noah's Ark" is formed because the units of various sizes
gather. Each is able to be realized even when a unit is independent, and
to drift the sea like a boat in an emergency.
(Team representative: Architectural Design Information Study, Shibaura
Institute of Technology Takaaki Iwama)
 |
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Judge: Mr. Hiromichi Yoshikawa(Tokyo City
University) |
|
Title: City of
Dreams
Team Name: Shanghai University 1205 |
|
|
|
By spending about two months on conceiving and designing, we have finally
carried out the works in your eyes, which is called City of Dreams. On
the background of the sea island, we've completed the beautiful and fully
functional sea city, with the panoramic area of about 30 square kilometers.
In overall city planning, we have built the perfect business district with
an elaborate layout, wonderful living quarters with acceptable high-rise
buildings and large number of villas next to the sea, ecological zones
with all kinds of trees, the wharfs for big ships and intensive containers.
In our city, there are convenient traffic networks, with elevated highways
around, the cross-sea bridge, the light rail stations and road intersections,
as to ease the traffic pressure. Additionally, masses of trees and street
lights beside the roads can also beautify the urban environment. Meanwhile,
we have also created a large number of functional facilities, with central
water disposal system we could supply clean water to island residents,
with high-power wind power generation units we could satisfy the power
demand of island residents. What's more, with the flood control dam around
the city, to some extent we could not only resist the seawater spreading
to the city, but also add green belts. Finally, by making automatic roaming
script, the whole city will be shown with various ways, looking around
the city panorama from the air or travelling in the city by vehicles or
other means, any of them could make you immersive in our City of Dreams.
(Team representative: School of Communication and Information Engineering,
Shanghai University LiLi)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Title: Fisland
Team Name: Nihon University
JT&SO |
|
|
|
Fisland is an island full of nature in perfect harmony with technologies
that foster and shape human recreation and dwelling respectively. We have
designed the island's shape in line with the current of Arakawa river and
the old Edogawa river so that the island's beaches and forests are left
to grow. The island is expected to become one of the world's natural wonders
in years to come.
(Team representative: Structure and Design Lab. Nihon University Hirokazu
Kasai)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Judge: Mr. Tomohiro Fukuda(Osaka University) |
|
Title: 's
SITE
Team Name: Hosei University spatial analysis
lab. |
|
|
|
Now asking
sustainability on the sea ...
And sustainability, is that the global environment can sustain an environment
that enables our survival. What environmental issues and energy conscious,
that intensive-urban and low-carbon-city has been attracting attention
in recent years in the structure of Japanese cities. Therefore, the reduction
of the size that can work without resorting to large automobile CO2 emissions
an artificial island, we have developed a transportation network. Then,
in order to allow for the power supply of the artificial island, we have
decided to use solar renewable energy, such as wind.
(Team representative: Spatial analysis Lab. Hosei University Graduate School
Hisaki Ohshima)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Judge: Mr.Tomohiko Yamanashi(Nikken Sekkei) |
|
Title: The floating
town
Team Name: Shibaura Institute of Technology ANT |
|
|
|
The
floating town which makes a cyclical form life style possible.
(Team representative: Architectural Design Information Study, Shibaura Institute of Technology Daisuke Itonaga)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Mr. Kostas Terzidis (Harvard University) |
|
Title: The
Poseidon
Team Name: Nihon University SF-JNT2 |
|
|
|
The Great East Japan Earthquake has made Japan become more conscious about
disaster prevention and hence the introduction of US&R (Urban Search
and Rescue) - common task force seen everywhere in the United States tailored
to fit Japan, to the nation. US&R reside on our island called Poseidon
to look out for danger in a very systematic way. We have built Japan's
first helicopter-only airport on the island from which US&R squads
can take off to search and rescue anyone located anywhere in Japan quickly
in any kind of disaster. Situated in the nation's capital, this is was
an ideal place to build the airport as US&R can communicate with the
government and municipalities concerned quickly and effectively to share
correct information. Poseidon serves as the base of Japan's disaster prevention
task force that the country can depend on when it needs them the most.
(Team representative: Structure and Design Lab. Nihon University Masahiro
Kanno)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Mr. Yoshihisa Hanamura(NPO Civil Machizukudi
Station) |
|
Title: JUGEMU
Team Name: Nihon University
TOKU-16th |
|
|
|
Here's a blast from the past. Environmentally friendly "City building"
method that was prominent and effective during the Edo period in Japan
comes back to life, this time in a new and innovative way in this sustainable
marine city.
(Team representative: Structure and Design Lab. Nihon University Yuuma
Fukuda)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Title: The Eye of
Tokyo
Team Name: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University CVP
BIMer |
|
|
|
Tokyo Eye Island is an artificial island in Tokyo, Japan on which major
commercial and residential infrastructures will be constructed. The design
concept for the centerpiece of the Eye is inspired by the Eye of Providence.
The island applies the sustainable technology like solar energy and wind
power. This design is to promote a green style of life. The island can
release the pressure of population in Tokyo and provide more living spaces
for citizens.
(Team representative: Construction and Virtual Prototyping Laboratory,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University Emily)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Title: olympic
island
Team Name: Takushoku University nagami yoyo |
|
|
|
In Tokyo, if there is olympic event being held, the ground for the olympic
village is none or limited. Thus I want to propose that the limited land
to be compensated to the man-made island.We can build new main stadium,
olympic village and hotels on the island. Furthermore, for example in Tokyo
bay aqualine Hotaru SA, there is a problem to park the cars during holidays.
The reason is there are many people who are eager to see the beautiful
scenery of the ocean. Thus if we migrate all of this to the man-made island,
there will be no problem to park the cars, and people also can see the
beautiful scenery of ocean without any problem.
(Team representative: Nagami Lab. Takushoku University Huang Te Tao)
|
PDF poster |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
General comments by Prof. Yasushi Ikeda, Chief of executive committee of VDWC
The 2nd Virtual Design World Cup attracted more attention from people worldwide
than it did last year. We have established the theme "Artificial island"
to get students to challenge the big task of creating this large scale
island, a task feasible by the use of VR and BIM technology. Despite the
level of difficulty, many works in which motivation can be felt were submitted
and I would like to give my appreciation from the bottom of my heart. Reviewing
all the works, I realized that the difficult part is not just the fact
that the scale of the task is so big but also the fact that the humanistic
objective of creating a man-made island is inconsistent with the term sustainability
- a word within the phrase that describe the theme ? in that it we tend
to think about living with what earth gave us rather than creating something
man-made when we refer to the term. This inconsistency forced students
to answer the question of why they should create such an island on top
of the question of how to create the island itself. Works that demonstrated
the means of preventing and protecting the island from natural disasters
and the ability to sanitize Tokyo bay using trees or other natural elements,
both of which are ways of answering the how and why question, passed the
first round. The work that came into first place answered the how and why
question by incorporating BIM design and autonomous sea water purification
facility and had high visual quality as the island symbolizes an ideal
sustainable man-made island itself, and hence the work was well received
by all the judges. It may be safe to say that the work owes its success
to the unique idea of changing the meaning of the project's title from
'Ship' to 'Island'. Had the work included some kind of transportation system
to and from the island, it would have been even better. Through this design
competition we were able to see the possibility of exchanging our ideas
freely in a global scale grow and we expect to see many great ideas in
a form of VR and BIM in years to come. |
|
 |
|
Information about the event next
year |
|
|
Virtual Design World
Cup
The 3rd Student BIM&VR Design Contest on Cloud
Registration Period : Wednesday, May 1-Monday, September 30, 2013
Project
Submission Period: Tuesday, October 1-Monday October 21, 2013
Award Ceremony : Thursday, November 21, 2013
|
| 2. VR Conference in London |
FORUM8 held its first International Conference on 3D VR Simulation in the
crypt of the world famous St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Tuesday November
20th from 9am - 4.30pm.
This preliminary conference is titled "The Application of Modern 3D
VR Simulation in Urban, Transport & Emergency Planning" and the
days consisted of eights presentations from Eight internationally renowned
guest speakers. Their presentation will surely offer the audience with
an insight, innovative ideas, and principals in the continuously developing
area of 3D technology as they will give an in-depth explanation and case
studies on many aspects of the application of 3D VR simulation and visualization
based on their expertise in the fields of transport planning, architecture
and road safety.
The conference included a half hour free Cathedral Tour, complimentary buffet lunch, and coffee breaks in which guests and attendees can network to open up new opportunities. |
The present Cathedral with its iconic dome. |
|
|
| 3. Overseas Seminars and Exhibition |
Exhibition
| Date |
Exhibition Name |
Location |
| 4/6/11, 2013 |
NAB SHOW |
Las Vegas Convention Center, USA |
For more information and applications, please email us at
mailto : forum8@forum8.com
Gross circulation:6612
To subscribe this page, go to http://www.forum8.co.jp/english/p-mail-e.htm
If you would like to unsubscribe from our newsletters, please include "Unsubscribe"
in the subject title of your email and send it back to us.
Thank you for your continued support.
FORUM8 Co., Ltd. mailto:forum8@forum8.co.jp
Nakameguro GT Tower 15F
2-1-1 Kamimeguro Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-0051 JAPAN
TEL +81-3-5773-1888
FAX +81-3-5720-5688
http://www.forum8.com/ |
|
