Skeletal Domino Construction
Uses Japan’s local wood resources such as Cedar ･ Cypress ･ Pine
To bring forward more advanced construction method for Housing
As it has been successfully done under Skeletal Log
Method in public building construction

Skeletal Domino
Represents a construction method that utilizes pure
Naturally dehydrated wood materials to build in a contemporary
Column-beam structure, but with traditional Japanese building
Disciplines resulting in lintel system that requires no bracing

New Moon Lumber
Is a high quality wood material from trees
Cut down during appropriate season ･
Put through a natural drying process with all branches intact ･
Then stocked up as building supply

New Moon Lumber×Skeletal Domino
Represents a protocol for local housing construction that requires
Collaboration between forest caretakers, local contractor, architect,
And dwellers

4m ×4m × 2unit Skeletal Building Exhibit

Sponsored by	NPO : Shingetsu no Ki : International Association
Produced by	Ashigara Artisan Association for Dwellers
In Cooperation with	Sakakibara Co.: Cut ･ Naturally Dried Lumber T.S.DRY GROUP: Manufacturing ･ Carving
Supervised by	Kurokawa Tetsuro (Architect ･ Tokyo National University of Fine Art Professor)
Designed by	Design League
Engineered by	Hamauzu Tadashi
Date & Time	28 (Wed) →30 (Fri) September 2005, 10:00-17:30
Place	Tokyo BigSight, West Exhibition Hall 2 Tokyo-to, Koto-ku, Ariake 3Chome
Seminar	29 (Thu) September 2005, 13:30-16:30 [From Forest Caretaker to Local Contractor: Sustainable Design] “Home building with Column-beam System & Uncompromised Wood Materials” 　By Kurokawa Tetsuro
Other events	Same Date, 18:30-20:00 General Design Bldg. 4th Floor FM at Ueno Campus Tokyo National University of Fine Art Department of Architecture: 100 Years Anniversary Lecture Series “Possibility of wide span wood construction -Trace of Skeletal Log -”

Inquiry: Design League (Attn: Nakabayashi) tel:0422-48-1381