"TOKYO WOOD LIVING 2040: Mountains, Trees and Tokyo" will be held

The special exhibition "TOKYO WOOD LIVING 2040 Mountains, Trees and Tokyo" will be held from May 1st to 31st, 2025 at five venues: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), and the Otemachi, Marunouchi, Yurakucho, and Yaesu areas.

This event, which will be held following last year's, will look at ways to transform Tokyo into a "WOOD TOWN" in 2040 through designs that connect the mountains and the city and bring about circulation. We will explore the techniques and ideas that will make the future Tokyo a comfortable and creative "wooden city" through the activities of design, art, architecture and urban development.

It will be held on Friday, May 16, 2025 at Maru Building Hall (inside Marunouchi Building).
TOKYO WOOD LIVING 2040 Mountains, Trees and Tokyo Forum "Designing from Marunouchi: The Wooden City of Tokyo" Part 1
"Mountains, Trees and Tokyo: Tokyo becomes a lumberyard"
​Wataru Ebisawa, Chief Engineer of the Wood Building Lab in the R&D Promotion Department at our company, will be speaking at the event.

Large-diameter solid timber has been used in large-scale wooden architecture such as Horyuji Temple and Todaiji Temple, and large-section timber will be necessary for future urban wooden architecture as well.However, considering current forest resources, it is difficult to obtain large-diameter solid timber in large quantities, so hopes are pinned on wood materials such as laminated timber and CLT, which manufacture large-section timber from small-diameter timber. The large-section timber used in urban wooden architecture stores carbon in urban areas, and is expected to be reused in small-scale buildings after demolition.
We will discuss the value of urban wooden construction as a "second forest" and "lumberyard" and the appeal of the wooden spaces that result from it together with young designers who are practicing urban wooden construction using large cross-section members; ROOFLAG, Masahiro Harada, who designed Geo Hotel Entô, Wataru Ebisawa, designer of The The Royal Park Canvas Sapporo Odori Park, and Jun Shimada, designer of HULIC & New GINZA 8.