organized special lectures @tokyo
Rigid Origami Structures with Vacuumatics
collaboration with Tomohiro TACHI and Masaaki IWAMOTO
1st Prize, Form Finding Contest 2011, Architectural Institute of Japan
Tachi T., Masubuchi M. and Iwamoto M., “Rigid Origami Structures with Vacuumatics: Geometric Considerations”, in Proceedings of the IASS-APCS 2012, Seoul, Korea, May 2011.
my dissertation is now available online @the library of tu-berlin
(PDF 13MB)
> http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/volltexte/2013/3897/
“Conceptual and Structural Design of Adaptive Membrane Structures with Spoked Wheel Principle – Folding to the Perimeter”
“Entwurf und Konstruktion von adaptiven Membrankonstruktionen bei Speichenraddächern – Faltung zum äußeren Rand”
© E+K-Massivbau,TU-Berlin/Motoi Masubuchi
Motoi MASUBUCHI / 増渕基
Born in
1979 in Kamakura, Japan
1999 - 2003
Civil Engineering at Hokkaido University in Hokkaido, Japan (B.Eng.)
2003 - 2005
Structural Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden (M.Sc.)
2006 - 2012
Assistant/Research Fellow at Berlin Institute of Technology (TU-Berlin) with Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Mike Schlaich (Dr.-Ing.)
2011 - 2012
schlaich bergermann und partner in Berlin/Stuttgart, as a freelance engineer
2013 -
Werner Sobek Stuttgart in Germany
