[Katsura Library] Exhibition: "Close Encounters 2―A Stadium for the Outback and A Temporary Gazebo for a Shrine made with Bamboo and Membrane" (Jan.13-23, 2026)
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The exhibition, ”Close Encounters 2―A Stadium for the Outback and A Temporary Gazebo for a Shrine made with Bamboo and Membrane" is being held by the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering at Katsura Library.
Date and Place:
January 13-23, 2026 (Katsura Library 1st floor reading room)
Free viewing during library opening hours.
(Visitors from outside the university may also view the exhibition between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm on library opening days. For details, please refer to the “Service Guide for Non-KU Users.” )
Details of the Exhibition:
In the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, we offer a class called "Architecture Design Studio II" in the second semester. Every year, we invite guests from Japan and abroad and work on small projects that can be completed in about a month.
For the first project in 2025, we invited Mr. James Park from Australia and Mr. Shun Takayama from Japan as guests to think about the local context and sports activity of Yulara, Australia.
For the second project, we surveyed the grounds of an actual shrine in Kyoto City and designed a temporary gazebo for visitors to relax in using the light and soft materials of bamboo and membrane.
All students taking the course this year are international students. We hope you will take a look at their analysis of Yulara and Kyoto, as well as the models of the proposed architecture.
Organiser: Thomas Daniell (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering), Yosuke Komiyama (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering)
Inquiries: Yosuke Komiyama, komiyama[at]archi.kyoto-u.ac.jp
*This exhibition is being held as part of the Katsura Campus Empirical Research Fund-adopted project "Development of modular furniture to promote the upcycled use of wooden building materials" (Komiyama Laboratory), and the display stands are CoLoT, modular furniture made from upcycled CLT panel offcuts. Please also take a look.
Exhibition Flyer:
