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Yasufuku Lab (Architecture and Urban Form Engineering)
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A lab that uses ICT to explore evacuation, pedestrian flow, and the design of space in buildings and cities.
AboutAbout the lab
Combining ICT with architecture and urban planning to create safe and enriching environments.
The Yasufuku Lab studies community design for architecture, cities, and society using ICT.
Using diverse methods including simulation, VR, AI, and descriptive geometry, the lab works on the design, representation, analysis, and evaluation of space.
Affiliated with the D3 Center at The University of Osaka, the lab is active as a cooperating field (Architecture and Urban Form Engineering) of the Architectural Engineering section of the Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering.
Key terms
- Multi-agent simulation
- A method that reproduces each individual as an agent on a computer and simulates how they move autonomously in response to their surroundings
- Digital twin
- A technology that precisely recreates real-world facilities and spaces on a computer
- 3D reconstruction
- A method of precisely digitizing existing buildings and cities in three dimensions
ResearchResearch themes
The lab combines cutting-edge ICT with architecture and urban planning and, building on architectural form engineering, aims to realize safe and enriching architectural and urban environments. It uses simulation, VR, AI, and descriptive geometry across disciplines to study the design, representation, analysis, and evaluation of space.
*Illustrative imageAnalyzing evacuation behavior in disasters
The lab analyzes evacuation behavior during disasters in buildings and urban spaces using multi-agent simulation. It builds crowd walking models and evacuation behavior models, evaluates evacuation guidance plans, and feeds the findings back into architectural planning.
*Illustrative imageCrowd management in large facilities
Targeting places such as Tokyo Dome, shopping malls, the Kaiyukan aquarium, and Shuri Castle, the lab runs pedestrian flow simulations on digital twins. It evaluates congestion relief and circulation route optimization, and works to put its research results to practical use in society.
*Illustrative imageStudying spatial perception with VR
In immersive VR environments, the lab experimentally analyzes human perception, behavior, and psychological responses in architectural and urban spaces. It quantitatively evaluates perceptual characteristics related to sense of scale, spatial cognition, and the impression of materials.
*Illustrative imageAnalyzing and generating architectural and urban form
Using visualization techniques and computational methods, the lab quantitatively analyzes and generates the forms of buildings and cities. It digitizes existing buildings and cities through 3D reconstruction and explores new spatial forms through parametric design.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yasufuku Lab consist of faculty, doctoral program students, master's program students, undergraduate students, invited faculty and researchers, administrative assistants, and professors emeritus.As of 2026
- ProfessorKensuke Yasufuku
- Associate ProfessorAkira Takahashi
- Project ProfessorNoriko Otsuka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Virtuality 1000SD Arcade Headset and Joystick” RetroEditor / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Analyzing evacuation behavior in disasters: “Taiwan exit sign white backgrounded” Oakw / Public domain (cropped)
- Crowd management in large facilities: “Galeria shopping mall interior 13” MBH / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Studying spatial perception with VR: “Virtual reality headset” FloppaIngénieur / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Analyzing and generating architectural and urban form: “3D reconstruction temple Pessinus Angelo Verlinde” Averlind / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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