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Architectural Planning and Design Lab (Kenichi Tanoe)
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A lab that plans and designs architecture supporting daily life, from housing to public facilities.

AboutAbout the lab
Spaces where people and environments permeate each other.
The architectural planning and design lab of Prof. Tanoe specializes in design planning for buildings essential to daily life, starting with housing and including educational, cultural, and medical facilities.
Taking the user's perspective, the lab considers how to realize distinctive, attractive spaces in which people and environments mutually permeate each other.
Its goal is to train professionals involved in architectural and community design (surveying, programming, planning, and design).
Key terms
- Rebuilding of aging housing complexes
- Reconstructing the deteriorated buildings of old housing complexes. One of the research keywords listed by the lab
- Informal settlements
- Urban areas formed outside of formal planning. Addressed in the lab's research on housing planning in developing countries
- Participatory planning
- An approach in which the people who use a space take the lead in planning it. A keyword of user-participatory design methods
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the planning and design of buildings essential to daily life, from housing to educational, medical, and community facilities. Its listed research themes include residential area management, housing planning in developing countries, user-participatory design methods, and architectural planning of public facilities.
*Illustrative imageDesign and Management of Housing and Residential Areas
The lab studies the design and management of housing and residential areas. Its keywords are the rebuilding of aging housing complexes and autonomous renewal.
*Illustrative imageHousing Planning in Developing Countries
The lab studies housing planning in developing countries. Its keywords are informal settlements, slum upgrading, and examining the modernization process of living spaces in Asia.
User-Participatory Design Methods
The lab studies user-participatory design methods. Its keywords are user-centered design, participatory planning, and inclusiveness.
*Illustrative imageArchitectural Planning of Public Facilities
The lab studies architectural planning related to public facilities. Its keywords are, in addition to housing and residential area planning, the planning of next-generation educational, medical, and community facilities, and programs and their linkage.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKenichi Tanoe
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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: “Looks like Toronto Community Housing is rebuilding this building, south of Church and Carlton, -c ( )” booledozer / CC0 (cropped)
- Design and Management of Housing and Residential Areas: “Kadoma Danchi Public Housing” Mr.ち
ゅらさん / CC0 (cropped) - Housing Planning in Developing Countries: “Hillside informal settlement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Architectural Planning of Public Facilities: “Münster, Freilichtmuseum Mühlenhof, Landschule” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Planning and Design Lab): “Social housing in Ilulissat, Greenland” Vincent van Zeijst / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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