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Morinaga Lab
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A lab that plans and designs living environments and community facilities so that people and their environment can form good relationships.
AboutAbout the lab
Good relationships between people and environment, starting from homes and communities.
The Morinaga Lab studies methods for planning, designing, and nurturing cities and living environments so that humans and their environment can form the best possible relationship.
Associate Professor Morinaga specializes in architectural planning and residential environment planning. The lab studies how living environments and community facilities can be shaped through collaboration among residents, users, and operators, and how community-based local stock can be put to use.
The lab emphasizes developing the vision and imagination to balance soft and hard aspects, theory and practice, and analytical and integrative ability.
Students work every day to acquire methods such as problem finding, field surveys, project proposals, dialogue-based design, and workshops.
Key terms
- Residential environment planning
- Planning that considers homes and their surrounding environment, including ways of living and management systems
- Local stock
- Resources already present in a community, such as vacant houses, existing facilities, and other buildings and land
- Dialogue-based design
- An approach in which the content of buildings and spaces is decided through repeated discussions with the people who will live in or use them
NewsLab news
A student received the Special Award for Structural Design at the Chiba Prefecture Architecture Student Awards
A student received the Runner-up Grand Prize at the 2024 University Student Tourism and Community Development Contest, Fukushima Reconstruction Stage
A student received the Encouragement Award at the "Assertive Shop" Student Design Competition
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores methods, techniques, and knowledge for planning, designing, and nurturing cities and living environments so that humans and their environment can form the best possible relationship. Through daily activities, students acquire methods such as problem finding, field surveys, project proposals, dialogue-based design, and workshops.
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MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.
- Associate ProfessorRyohei Morinaga
- Assistant ProfessorJiyoung Jung
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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.
- Top image: “Takahatadai Housing Complex” Kumazemi2024 / CC0 (cropped)
- Planning, Designing, and Nurturing Living Environments: “Urban design In IRAN-Qom City-2016 & 2017-Canon Photos-Mostafa Meraji 08” Mostafameraji / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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