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Yokoyama Lab
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A lab that explores the relationship between people and architecture and cities from the perspectives of cognition and behavior.
AboutAbout the lab
An environment that affirms human diversity and enhances people's abilities.
The Yokoyama Lab studies the relationship between people and the architecture and cities they have built, from the perspectives of cognition and behavior.
The lab uses experiments and field surveys to examine how people feel and move, and aims to apply these findings as a foundation for design.
It is an interdisciplinary lab for thinking about architecture, where graduate students from the Department of Architecture and the Sub-department of General Systems Studies join in discussions together at the lab seminar.
Key terms
- Built environment
- The environment created by human hands, such as buildings, roads, parks, and cities
- Cognition
- The workings of the mind that understand, remember, and make judgments about one's surroundings from what one sees and hears
- Field survey
- A survey in which researchers go out to actual buildings and neighborhoods to observe and record people's behavior and circumstances
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research that describes the relationship between people and the built environment they have created, such as architecture and cities, from the perspectives of cognition and behavior, and applies it as a foundation for design. It considers environments that affirm human diversity and enhance people's abilities.
*Illustrative imageThe Relationship between People and the Built Environment
The lab clarifies, one by one, the human cognitive and behavioral factors that shape how the built environment comes into being. It verifies these factors through experiments, field surveys, and questionnaire surveys, and links them to concrete design proposals and evaluations.
*Illustrative imageHow Designers Think
The lab studies what cognitive constraints people face when designing the built environment, the abilities needed to overcome them, and teaching methods that bring out those abilities.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yokoyama Lab consist of faculty members and students at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels.As of 2026
- ProfessorYurika YokoyamaPublications ↗
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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: “Piazza del Campo (Siena) 01” Superchilum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The Relationship between People and the Built Environment: “Subway passage between Toranomon Station and Toranomon Hills Station ( )” Real Estate Japan from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- How Designers Think: “Color model, unité d habitation berlin, Le Corbusier, 1958” Philippstargard / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kozaki Lab): “Interior view of the Wangz hotel lounge with shining parquet curved ceiling and round table Singapore” Basile Morin / 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)
- Related lab (Ikeda Lab (Architectural Informatics)): “ICD Research Pavilion 2011 Stuttgart 01” MSeses / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Obuchi Lab (G30)): “3D-Druck-Haus Wallenhausen 01” Looniverse / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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