"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 Marunouchi Building Building Hall.
TOKYO WOOD LIVING 2040 Mountains, Trees and Tokyo Forum "Designing Tokyo, the City of Wood, from Marunouchi" 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, 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 similarly large-section timber will be necessary for future urban wooden construction.However, considering current forest resources, it is difficult to obtain large quantities of large-diameter solid timber, so hopes are pinned on wood materials such as laminated timber and CLT, which are made from small-diameter timber to produce large-section timber. The large-section timber used in urban wooden construction stores carbon in urban areas, and it is expected that it can be reused in smaller buildings after dismantling.
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: Harada Masahiro, who designed "ROOFLAG" and "Geo Hotel Entô," Ebisawa Wataru, designer of "The Royal Park Canvas Sapporo Odori Park," and Shimada Jun, designer of "HULIC & New GINZA 8."