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Architectural Design Engineering Lab
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A lab that designs sustainable architecture using both digital and analog technologies.
AboutAbout the lab
Combining digital and analog to rethink sustainable architecture
The Architectural Design Engineering Lab studies methods of designing architecture and cities using digital technologies such as simulation and programming.
As global warming and natural disasters increase and environmentally conscious, sustainable architecture is in demand, the lab carries out analytical research based not only on European climates but also on East Asian climates.
The lab also uses digital technologies to study traditional local techniques and materials.
The faculty members are Associate Professor Hirokazu Suemitsu and Associate Professor Bunji Izumi.
Key terms
- Hot-humid region model
- A model of architecture and cities needed in hot, humid Asia, distinct from the cold-climate model of high airtightness and high insulation.
- Structural optimization
- A method of determining the shape of a building's structure and the placement of its members so that structural performance is maintained while the amount of material used is reduced.
- Shape Grammar
- A design method that defines rules for generating forms and uses them to create a variety of structural shapes.
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As demand grows for environmentally conscious, sustainable architecture, the lab is advancing analysis based not only on European climates but also on East Asian climates. It also works on design methods that solve contemporary problems through programming and simulation, and on research using digital technologies to study traditional local techniques and materials.
*Illustrative imageDesign Methods Using Digital Technologies
The lab studies new design approaches using simulation and programming. By combining environmental and structural simulations with programming tools such as Grasshopper, it explores methods for solving contemporary problems through shape optimization, handling of multiple parameters, and prototyping.
*Illustrative imageDigital × Analog Building Materials and Construction Methods
The lab applies digital design to traditional local techniques and materials, and studies the development of new building materials.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental Analysis of Asian Architecture and Cities
The lab analyzes the architecture and cities of hot, humid Asian cities from an environmental perspective. The environmental architecture and cities that dominate the world follow a cold-climate model based mainly on high airtightness and high insulation. The lab holds that Asia needs a different model for hot-humid regions, and takes on this under-researched field.
*Illustrative imageApplying Structural Optimization to Architectural Design
This research applies structural optimization techniques to architectural design. It deals with methods such as Shape Grammar, which generates structural forms from rules of form, and Topology Optimization.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Architectural Design Engineering Lab consist of faculty members and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorHirokazu Suemitsu
- Associate ProfessorBunji Izumi
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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: “Parametric designs” Sharan Sharma the clicker / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Design Methods Using Digital Technologies: “Ciudadanos en FabLAB de LABNL” Ricardo Burnes / LABNL Lab Cultural Ciudadano (Citizen Cultural Lab Nuevo León, Mexico) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Digital × Analog Building Materials and Construction Methods: “3D printed wall” COBOD / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environmental Analysis of Asian Architecture and Cities: “Tropical City Streets at Night” epSos.de / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Applying Structural Optimization to Architectural Design: “Tensile Lattice Shells by Vladimir Shukhov 1895” Andrei Osipovich Karelin / Public domain (cropped)
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