December 18, 2024
Hinata Sugiyama, a first-year student in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and a member of Associate Professor Shohei Matsukawa's lab, has won the Sogo Shikaku Award at the Kenchikugakuensai 2024: Rookie Competition.
Kenchikugakuensai is an architectural design event that started in 2021, marking its fourth year. The Rookie Competition is a design challenge and review session with an open entry system for current architecture students in the Tokyo metropolitan area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama). After passing the second round of judging, Sugiyama's work, "Bent Plywood: Chaise Longue," was selected as one of the top 10 entries and went on to win the Sogo Shikaku Award in the final review.
Comment from Hinata Sugiyama
I created a chair that proposes a new wood-bending technique, where plywood can be gradually bent using steam from an iron and pressure from lashing belts. I am greatly honored to have received the Sogo Shikaku Award at the Kenchikugakuensai 2024: Rookie Competition. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professor Matsukawa and the members of the lab for their guidance on this project, as well as to the judges and everyone involved who made it possible to postpone and hold the Kenchikugakuensai, which was once canceled due to Typhoon No. 10.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office