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Honma Lab
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The lab uses mathematics and data to analyze architectural and urban space and applies the results to design.
AboutAbout the lab
Integrating design and engineering.
Honma Lab conducts research in architectural planning and urban planning, aiming to integrate design and engineering.
The lab develops new methods for analyzing architectural and urban space, and works on designing spaces based on those methods.
The lab also analyzes cities using large-scale location data, and conducts theoretical research on the placement of facilities and urban development.
The lab is also involved in the "Value Creation Design" activities of the Institute of Industrial Science.
Key terms
- Spatial analysis
- Examining the form, placement, and connections of buildings and cities using numbers and data, and reading their characteristics from the results
- Location data
- Data recorded by photos, smartphones, and similar sources that shows when and where someone was
- Choice behavior model
- A mathematical expression of how a person chooses one option from several
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's main goal is the "integration of design and engineering" in architectural planning and urban planning. To pursue this, in recent years it has worked on developing spatial analysis methods and design based on them, urban analytics using location data, and theoretical research on facility placement and urban development.
*Illustrative imageNew methods for spatial analysis
The lab develops new spatial analysis methods for designing buildings and cities. Examples include research on optimizing form based on the visibility of a room.
*Illustrative imageSpatial design based on analysis
Using the spatial analysis methods it has developed itself, the lab works on newly designing the spaces of buildings and cities.
*Illustrative imageAnalyzing cities with location data
The lab analyzes cities using large-scale location data. Examples include research that identified the characteristics of tourism by foreign visitors to Japan from geotagged photo data.
*Illustrative imageTheory of facility placement and urban development
Based on choice behavior models, which describe which facilities people choose, the lab theoretically studies facility placement and urban development. It addresses problems such as facility placement when facilities are chosen probabilistically.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKentaro HonmaPublications ↗
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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: “Komaba Research Campus (Evening) color” Guwashi / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- New methods for spatial analysis: “Space syntax - Global Integration - Brasilia” Tony Rotondas / Public domain (cropped)
- Spatial design based on analysis: “Scale Architectural Model of a Mario Kleff Design 01” Designer Mario Kleff / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Analyzing cities with location data: “Locals and Tourists -1 (GTWA -2)- London ( )” Eric Fischer
（背景の 地図：© OpenStreetMap contributors, CC BY-SA） / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped) - Theory of facility placement and urban development: “K=3 system” サノマール / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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