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Architectural Design Lab
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Research on applying structures that organisms build outside their bodies to the design and construction of architecture.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking architectural design through structures organisms build outside their bodies
Prof. Kitajima, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Human Life Design at the Faculty of Design, specializes in architectural design and algorithmic design, and studies design and construction methods for architecture that apply the building principles of structures organisms make outside their bodies.
Structures that organisms build autonomously outside their bodies highly integrate materials, structure, and responsiveness to the environment, achieving high functionality with limited resources.
Focusing on termite fungus gardens and funnel-web spider webs, the lab observes, analyzes, and models these externally built structures, which are dynamically renewed in response to environmental change.
The lab aims to clarify the relationship between form and function and to establish design and construction methods for environmentally adaptive architecture with passive environmental control.
Key terms
- Structures built outside the body
- Structures that organisms build autonomously outside their own bodies. They highly integrate materials, structure, and responsiveness to the environment
ResearchResearch themes
Structures that organisms build autonomously outside their bodies achieve high functionality with limited resources. Prof. Kitajima applies the principles behind these structures to develop design and construction methods for environmentally adaptive architecture with passive environmental control.
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- Assistant ProfessorChisaki Kitajima
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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: “Litchfield National Park (AU), Magnetic Termite Mounds” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Learning from Termite Fungus Gardens and Funnel-Web Spider Webs: “Spider web Luc Viatour” Luc Viatour / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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