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Toyoda (Keisuke) Lab
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The lab bridges architecture and digital technology to create the spaces of the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Expanding the field of architecture through digital technology
The Toyoda (Keisuke) Lab studies fields concerned with the integration and expansion of architecture and digital technology.
Its central theme is systematizing the concept of "Common Ground," which connects physical and digital space, and putting it into practice in society.
From the perspective of architectural informatics, the lab addresses new forms of design, construction, and use, as well as their relationship to spatial AI, game AI, and XR spaces.
The lab conducts a lot of joint research with governments, companies, and other research institutions, and takes on a wide range of work, from design to research to real-world demonstration.
Key terms
- Architectural Informatics
- A field that rethinks architecture from the perspective of information technology and considers how buildings are designed, constructed, and used
- Common Ground
- A shared foundation connecting physical and digital space that not only people but also robots and AI can share
- Digital Fabrication
- A method of processing materials under computer control to make objects directly from design data
ResearchResearch themes
Advances and expansion in information technology are having complex and fundamental effects on every area of architecture. Drawing on perspectives from outside as well as inside the discipline of architecture, the lab explores what next-generation architecture and its social responsibility should look like.
*Illustrative imageArchitecture Expanding into Information
Information technology operates on millisecond timescales without physical constraints, while architecture is a physical entity that operates on a time axis of 100 years. The lab analyzes how architecture is expanding into the realm of information, and explores the domain that next-generation architecture will take on, covering design expression, construction technology, use after completion, and even virtual architecture.
*Illustrative imageCommon Ground and Spatial AI
Working with a faculty member who specializes in game AI, the lab applies technologies and methods that are ahead in the game industry to dynamic coordination between physical and digital space. It explores the society, design, and technology of a world where diverse Non-Human Agents mix with people, and carries out research on the technologies and systems needed to develop and implement Common Ground through collaboration among industry, government, and academia.
*Illustrative imageDigital Construction and Making
In the fields of digital fabrication and digital construction, the lab works on using CNC technology, robotics, and drones in construction, using XR and AR technologies, and exploring generative design and construction methods with AI. It explores the potential for quickly and effectively introducing digital technology into the slow-changing construction industry.
*Illustrative imageSystematizing Digital Spatial Description
Methods of describing space differ by industry and scale, and they have proliferated without coordination: BIM, CAD, GIS, scanning, game engines, voxels, and more. The lab organizes and systematizes the characteristics of these methods, and studies techniques for converting between and linking them, as well as rules for their operation and management.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Toyoda (Keisuke) Lab consist of faculty, research fellows, project researchers, graduate students in the doctoral and master's programs, assistants, and secretaries.
- Project ProfessorKeisuke Toyoda
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Architectural 3d building scanning for existing conditions” Matthewadams66 / CC0 (cropped)
- Architecture Expanding into Information: “VR headset with smartphone and stereoscopy image” Bert Niehaus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Common Ground and Spatial AI: “Cognitive Service Robot Cosero” Sven Behnke / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Digital Construction and Making: “Betondrucker03 wico” Patrick Oberdörfer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Systematizing Digital Spatial Description: “Scan-to-BIM Mechanical Room” Oregon State University / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Okabe Lab): “Kawasaki Nihon Minkaen-3” Fg2 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Honma Lab): “Komaba Research Campus (Evening) color” Guwashi / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ikeda Lab (Architectural Informatics)): “ICD Research Pavilion 2011 Stuttgart 01” MSeses / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Matsuda Lab): “Hakata Exit Station Square the tactile walking surface indicators Hakata-eki-chūōgai Hakata-ku Fukuoka” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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