BIM Japan Trip 2018

BIM JAPAN TRIP 14 - 24 October 2018

ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION 2018

The report “BIM Japan Trip 2018� contains the record of views and impressions on the city of Tokyo in Japan. These impressions were constructed from a field study and visiting trip conducted between 14th and 21th October 2018 as the reward for the winning team in Archicad BIM Competition 2018.

Archicad BIM Competition is a strongly focused and internationally based planning competition that has five years experience in training and providing Vietnamese students a professional environment to have access to new technology and architectural knowledge. Organized by Graphisoft, cooperating with University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City (UAH), Van Lang University (VLU), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) and Tokyo Institute of Technology, the competition continues a strong interdisciplinary focus challenging students to understand architecture and BIM from an environmental, social and newly-technology apply perspective.

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ENGAKU-JI Temple

CONTENT 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 2. INTRODUCTION 3. CULTURE 4. ARCHITECTURE

4.1. TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

4.2. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

4.3. URBAN PLANNING

4.4. OVERALL

5. BIM 6. MIKKEN SEKKEI 7. GRAPHISOFT 8. CONCLUDING REMARKS

1. Shibuya-ku 2. Kanagawa Prefecture

ACKNOWLEDGMENT Our first words of gratitude go to Mr. Tatsuro for giving us direction and support.

He fully supported us during the training with software skills and idea development, and created a welcoming and inspiring atmosphere in which we could finish the competition.

We are particularly grateful to Prof. Phan Thi Phuong Diem and Prof. Le Thi Minh Tam. They taught us how to think on architecture incisively, who considered our ideas and texts and helped us with their advice at different stages.

We are thankful for the comments and kind helps we received from Prof. Nguyen Tran Yen Khang and Prof. Huynh Duc Thua, who were our companions and guides on the journey, giving us an unforgettable trip with so much of knowledge and experience about architecture as well as culture and people in Japan.

Last but not least, we also want to thank our seniors for supporting and giving us experiences from previous BIM competitions, for criticizing our presentations which ended up in a better result.

P2D Team.

INTRODUCTION This autumn, we spent a week in Tokyo, Japan for traveling and studying. We have had so many good memories of the place, especially a place like Japan, where so much of the experience is about observation and sharing. Overall the Japanese capital delivers an extraordinary variety of experiences – from historic shrines to the high-end applied technology. Here are some our miscellaneous thoughts on the place.

CULTURE In our point of view, Japan has a unique culture which is characterised by the combination of a long history and highly developed technology. Not only lots of architectural and artistic works that have been historically recognized all around the world, good quality and delicious cuis ine, but exceedingly helpful and friendly people with a feeling of incredibly safety wherever we went, they all create a proud culture of this country.

1. ENGAKU-JI Temple, Kamakura-Shi, Kanagawa 2. TOGOSHI HACHIMAN Shrine, Shinagawa 3. ENGAKU-JI Temple, Kamakura-Shi, Kanagawa 4. TSURUGAOKA HACHIMANGU, Kamakura Shinagawa

ARCHITECTURE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

Tokyo is not only a city of skyscrapers, but does also host a wide range of old and unique buildings. The most obvious old buildings in Tokyo are temples and shrines that are scattered all over the city. Traditional Japanese design has always revolved around the idea of minimalism, adding only what is needed and removing the rest, and especially concentrated on details.

1. TSURUGAOKA HACHIMANGU, Kamakura, Shinagawa 2. NEZU-JINJA Shrine,bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 3. KYO ASAKURA HOUSE, Shibuya

1. TSURUGAOKA HACHIMANGU, Kamakura, Shinagawa 2. NEZU-JINJA Shrine,bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

ARCHITECTURE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE Beside being famous for the prominent in sophistication and minimalism designs, there they have plenty of buildings which are known as the “weirdest” in the world.

From compact shapes to blocks with a variety of strange and alternative shapes, such as Prada, Hugo Boss - Omotesando Hills, etc.

1.PRADA BUILDING, Omote-Sando , Minato-Ku, Minamiaoyama, Tokyo 2. SUNNY HILL at Minami- Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 3. HUGO BOSS BUILDING, Shibuya-ku, Jingumae Omote-Sando, Tokyo

1. TOKYO UNION CHURCH, Shibuya-Ku, Jingumae Omote sando 2. HERMES BUILDING, Ginza Sotobori-Dori, Chou-Ku,Tokyo 3. NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER, Higashishinbashi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 4. MODE GAKUEN COCOON TOWER, Shinjuku, Tokyo 5. GINZA CHOU DORI, chou-ku, Tokyo

On the other hand, the rest of architecture in Tokyo are still in sync and unmanaged in terms of management.

However, in general, Japanese architecture is diverse but all have uniformity in terms of aesthetics, addressing well the demand for utilities.

1. GINZA CHOU DORI, chou-ku, Tokyo 2. Tokyo common street 3. Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal

URBAN PLANNING Japan provide people an extremely good public service and infrastructure.

Tokyo’s current urban landscape is mostly modern and contemporary architecture, and older buildings are scarce. By adding new buildings and keeping old ones respectively, we could see many layers of houses which naturally blended together. Each layer stands for a period of history, showing us the development of a first-class technology city with a long develop history.

DaikanyamachĹ?, Shibuya, Tokyo

OVERALL

Japanese provide cultural and traditional techniques, even their notion into the architecture in a subtle and humble way - which helps us understand some of their personalities.

In conservation - especially with the architecture, we see the flexibility, not trying to choose the conservation method can be patchwork or replacement.

Concern for the core element is what we see, which can be said to be part of meditation, the Japanese always focus on creating open spaces in their architect whether it is private property.

There are always gaps that seem to be the most important things to Japanese people, which have proved that they are greatly focus on the community factor.

For the first time we could approach the ability to apply new technology that they themselves developed (as we saw in Tokyo University of Technology) in such scale through things that can be applied in practice such as using the Bim technology for roof construction, train station or solar cell bio-garden system.

1. KYO ASAKURA HOUSE, Shibuya 2. NEZU-JINJA Shrine,bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 3. SHINJUKU FAÇADE,Shinjuku, Tokyo

This place provides students all good conditions to develop and study art by promoting for them at the museum, focusing on helping students to have basic knowledge, which is the best condition for students to have professionalism as well as artistic sense. This is partly due to both the concentration of quantity building and the quality of the museums.

1. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART, Taito-ku, Tokyo 2. UENO Museums, Taito-ku, Tokyo

1. 2. NBF OSAKI building , Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 3. TOGOSHI TRAIN STATION, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

BIM Before we stepped into the competition, we had no concept of BIM, the way we interacted with BIM was quite passive and vague.

Through the competition we had a better knowledge about BIM, the benefits of it, but until then, for us it is also simple benefits such as drawing faster, easier, better management comparing to previous softwares we use.

And when we made it to the final of the competition, we saw how BIM is, then they became clearer after the trip and the meeting with large companies using and developing BIM technology.

NIKKEN SEKKEI At Nikken Sekkei company, we experienced an investment in all aspects of presentation and content. But above all, BIM can be solution for almost all the problems (rendering, filming, cleverer model information managing which makes the work faster to practical, and better detail managing) Bimx can actualize the model which in fact covers the disadvantages of BIM softwares’ presentation abilities.

This is really a great opportunity and potential for Vietnamese students to catch up with current design technology. To us, the benefit of sharing and helping students to understand BIM in Vietnam is extremely helpful.

Meeting and workshop with Nikken Sekkei Company

GRAPHISOFT Visiting Graphisoft Office, our first impression was the sincere enthusiasm of the teachers (Mr. Tatsuro) who helped us a lot in accessing new software and technology. Through the office visit, we could see their judicious vision and company direction, which really impressed us.

BIM is not a completely perfect solution but it is an indispensable one in building the works and bringing them to reality.

Tokyo Institute of Technology

CONCLUDING REMARKS After all, in addition to meet academic study purpose which provided us a lot of architectural knowledge, the trip also helped us to understand more about Japan, about the people and cuisine as well as their culture.

In our point of view, this was an exciting and inspirational field trip.

We hope there will be more of such competitions, so that students in Vietnam can have opportunities to be updated on both technology, architecture knowledge and to know more about Japan.

We therefore greatly appreciate the hospitality and enthusiasm of Japanese teachers, students and people. We wish the competition every sucess for the future.

Sincerely yours, P2D Team

Kamakura-Shi, Kanagawa

AUTHORS: P2D TEAM Nguyen Hoang Phuc Huynh Duy

Vu Thi My Duyen

Ho Chi Minh City, November 2018

JAPAN TRIP REPORT ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION 2018 UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE HOCHIMINH CITY