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Architectural Design Lab (Tetsuya Ukai)
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An architecture and urban design lab that uses data to read the relationship between university campuses and the city.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about architecture and cities through theory and practice
Professor Tetsuya Ukai works on architectural design and urban design through both theoretical research and practice.
In recent papers, the lab investigates how university campuses affect the surrounding city, using data analysis and simulation.
Using universities in Japan and Egypt as examples, the lab also examines where campuses should be located.
The university's faculty list describes the specialty as "architectural design, urban design."
Key terms
- Agent-based modeling
- A method that runs individual people or actors on a computer to reproduce how the whole system changes.
- Analytic hierarchy process
- A decision-making method that weights multiple evaluation criteria to determine the priority of candidates. It is also called AHP, after the initials of its English name.
- GIS
- Geographic information system. A system that overlays and analyzes map information such as land use, land prices, and accessibility.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how university campuses and the surrounding city relate to each other, using statistical analysis and simulation. Recent papers listed in the researcher information cover campus location, urban expansion, and the distribution of students' housing.
Relationship between Campuses and Surrounding Cities
The lab statistically analyzes the characteristics of university campuses in Japan and their surrounding cities to study how the two relate. It states that campuses in urbanized areas with good transportation access have advantages in terms of students' housing preferences and means of travel.
*Illustrative imageImpact of Campuses on Urban Expansion
The lab studies the impact of Kyushu University's Ito Campus on the expansion of Fukuoka City's urban area, using map analysis and simulation based on agent-based modeling. It estimates that the establishment of the campus accelerated urbanization of the surrounding area.
*Illustrative imageWhere to Locate Campuses
The lab examines locations for new university campuses using the analytic hierarchy process in Egypt and GIS-based suitability analysis in Japanese cities. It points out that suitable sites are often in suburban areas, which can lead to separation between students and residents and a burden of infrastructure development.
*Illustrative imageDistribution of Student Housing around Universities
The lab reproduces where students live and how they are distributed around universities, using agent-based modeling across multiple scenarios. Areas where students concentrate tend to stand out around suburban campuses, and the lab states that this could serve as an urban planning tool for considering student housing policy.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTetsuya Ukai
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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: “Aerial photographs of Nankai University Jinnan campus 2020 Oct” Amazingloong / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Impact of Campuses on Urban Expansion: “View in Ito Campus of Kyushu University”
そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Where to Locate Campuses: “Campus nursery construction site - geograph.org.uk - 7693069” DS Pugh / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Distribution of Student Housing around Universities: “Student accommodation, Fore Street, Exeter - geograph.org.uk - 6572329” David Smith / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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