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Otsuki Lab
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The lab studies future living environments by looking at how people make use of their homes and towns.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating homes and towns that support diverse ways of living.
The Otsuki Lab studies, from the standpoint of architectural planning, what homes and towns should be like to support people's diverse ways of living.
Through surveys, it clarifies how a variety of people make use of existing houses, housing complexes, and towns.
It works not only on building new environments but also on how to remake the existing environment and hand it on to the next generation.
Key terms
- Residential adaptation
- A way of living in which residents adapt their homes and towns to their own lives and use them with ingenuity
- Spatial stock
- The spatial assets accumulated in society, such as existing buildings and townscapes
- Environmental transition
- An event in which one's living environment changes, such as moving house or being hospitalized. It can be a heavy burden when it happens suddenly
NewsLab news
A doctoral dissertation received the Jusoken Doctoral Dissertation Award
Prof. Otsuki received the Urban Housing Sciences Association Achievement Award
Prof. Otsuki received the Jusoken Yasuo Shimizu Award
ResearchResearch themes
To derive the fundamental ideas for design, the lab aims to clarify, for each kind of human diversity, how diverse people make use of existing environments. It also works on ways to sustainably pass this "spatial stock" on to the next generation.
*Illustrative imageResidential Adaptation: Adapting Homes to Daily Life
Through surveys of long-established detached-house housing estates, apartment buildings, and urban districts, the lab discovers ways of living that were not originally anticipated, and aims to apply them to remaking future living environments.
*Illustrative imageResidential Area Management
The lab studies how to maintain and remake residential areas once they have been built. This research leads toward the democratization of space use, enabling local communities to manage their own towns.
*Illustrative imageGradual Environmental Transitions
Sudden environmental transitions caused by illness, disasters, or changes in close relationships tend to have especially negative effects on older adults and children. The lab studies practices that soften such changes.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorToshio OtsukiPublications ↗
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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: “Takesato Danchi 1” あばさー / Public domain (cropped)
- Residential Adaptation: Adapting Homes to Daily Life: “Kadoma Danchi Public Housing” Mr.ち
ゅらさん / CC0 (cropped) - Residential Area Management: “Tosu Yayoigaoka residential area” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Gradual Environmental Transitions: “Egota no mori welfare nakano tokyo 2009” User:Kentin / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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