I will construct a wooden building.

Wooden buildings catch fire easily.

Wooden buildings catch fire easily.

But wood is the material that I love the most, and I'm going to tell you the story about wood.

Any idea what these structures are?

That is a real structure.

It's an architectural landmark.

The Horyuji is the oldest wooden building in the world.

The structure almost looks real.

It is the oldest wooden building in existence.

In that giant structure, there are no nails...

Down the coast here in California, the redwood forest grows to 40 stories tall.

This is about 200 years old.

I think as we move into things like snow and very massive changes, we have to reference other features.

And every building that they build going forward will be safe.

The red brick bulding on my right is ward A, the male ward.

Those are invisible.

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Construction blueprints, anything that shows the layout.

They walked with him to an old wooden building near the farmhouse.

As you see in this slide the building on the left is an ordinary one.

Castles are great, old buildings are great, they're what men dream about

Laser micro machining essentially 3D printers that digitally fabricate functional systems, all the way up to building buildings, not by having blueprints, but having the parts code for the structure of the building.

We outfitted our fastest ship.

Shall we take a look at some paradoxical architecture?

Ships Built

These pictures are from La Villette in France and the welcome wing of the Science Museum in London.

My house is built of wood.

We need to reduce the concrete and steel and we need to grow bigger, and what we've been working on is 30 story tall buildings made of wood.

Thirty nine inches is the tallest structure I've seen.

And now it's a pathetic ruin and no one even knows what it was used for.

It helps us understand things.

A new museum is being built at the center of the city.

A new museum is being built in the center of the city.

Its exterior is very cool and artistic.

I'm looking for this opportunity to create an Eiffel Tower moment, we call it.

The building is seven stories high.

So many pictures on different streets.

I can see the shed from here.

And this place...

There are many famous old buildings in Kyoto.

Building Shapes

Building.

Building fetish?

So what we're trying to do is, we're trying to push these technologies towards creating bottom up construction approaches for architecture, which contrast the current, Victorian, top down methods which impose structure upon matter.