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Asawa Lab
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The lab visualizes the thermal environments of cities and buildings to explore how to make cooler urban areas.
AboutAbout the lab
Insight into urban environments through visualization
Asawa Lab studies thermal environments broadly, from individual buildings to entire cities.
The lab visualizes environmental phenomena in our surroundings using remote sensing and simulation techniques.
Aiming for comfortable, healthy, and energy-efficient buildings and cities, the lab contributes to environmentally conscious design.
The lab also studies the effects of greenery and passive design, using diverse methods from field measurement to numerical simulation.
Key terms
- Thermal environment
- The surrounding conditions, such as air temperature, solar radiation, and wind, that determine how hot or cold a place feels
- Remote sensing
- A technology that measures conditions on the Earth's surface from a distance, using satellites or aircraft
- Passive design
- A design approach that uses the shape of a building to regulate solar radiation and airflow without relying on mechanical equipment
NewsLab news
Accepting lab tours and consultations about continuing to graduate school
Several students received the Young Researcher Outstanding Presentation Award at the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
A student received the Outstanding Paper Encouragement Award at the Annual Conference of the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
A master's graduate received the Toka Award of the Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
A master's student received the Best Poster Award from the Japan Heat Island Society
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming for comfortable, healthy, and energy-efficient buildings and cities, the lab conducts wide-ranging research on thermal environments from buildings to cities. Through both observation and simulation, it makes invisible environmental phenomena visible.
*Illustrative imageObservation and Evaluation of Thermal Environments
Using remote sensing and various observation techniques, the lab clarifies the actual state of thermal environments and greenery in cities and buildings.
*Illustrative imageThermal Environment Simulation
The lab reproduces urban blocks and buildings in detail on a computer and uses numerical simulation to clarify the characteristics of thermal environments.
*Illustrative imageGreenery's Effect in Mitigating Thermal Environments
To answer the question "How should greenery be introduced to create comfortable urban spaces?", the lab takes diverse approaches, from experiments and field measurement to numerical simulation.
*Illustrative imagePassive Design
From the perspective of environmental engineering, the lab studies passive design, which effectively controls air and heat inside and outside buildings.
MembersFaculty
Members of Asawa Lab consist of faculty, a secretary, and PhD, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorTakashi AsawaPublications ↗
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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: “Running Through Paris Heat (153178 - vir 20240806 lrg)” NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang and Michala Garrison / Public domain (cropped)
- Observation and Evaluation of Thermal Environments: “LERF Timisoara RO night IR 1” Mihai-Cosmin Pascariu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Thermal Environment Simulation: “NASA SLC Urban Heat Island Effect Roof” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Greenery's Effect in Mitigating Thermal Environments: “20080708 Chicago City Hall Green Roof” TonyTheTiger / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Passive Design: “Tingbjerg tower” seier+seier / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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