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Takaguchi Lab
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The lab studies how to improve building performance and decarbonize buildings, based on environmental engineering.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking building decarbonization through environmental engineering.
The Takaguchi Lab studies how to improve building performance and decarbonize buildings, based on environmental engineering and urban environmental engineering.
The lab works not only on newly built buildings but also on developing technologies to improve the performance of existing buildings.
The lab promotes "Environmental Media Studies," which looks beyond the boundaries of disciplines to find ways to create new value in architecture and cities.
Key terms
- Environmental engineering
- A field of engineering that deals with the environment surrounding people, such as indoor temperature, air, and energy
- Decarbonization
- Reducing carbon dioxide emissions and moving toward net zero
- Environmental Media Studies
- An approach unique to the Takaguchi Lab that connects fields across disciplinary boundaries to create new value in architecture and cities
NewsLab news
A collaborator received the Center for Environmental Information Science Award
A student received the Young Researcher Award for Outstanding Research Report from the Kanto Chapter of the Architectural Institute of Japan
Professor Takaguchi received an Award for Contribution to Peer Review from the Architectural Institute of Japan
A master's student received the Sanae Award
A research paper was published in the Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy and Resources
ResearchResearch themes
Based on environmental engineering and urban environmental engineering, the Takaguchi Lab develops technologies to improve the performance and decarbonize both new and existing buildings, and makes proposals for putting them into practice in society. The lab works on the following themes.
*Illustrative imageForest resources and the circulation of buildings
This research aims to build an industrial system that uses forest resources such as timber without waste and circulates them together with buildings.
*Illustrative imageUsing building energy data
The lab studies ways to use the large amounts of energy data collected in buildings, including with AI.
*Illustrative imageEnergy- and resource-saving apartment buildings
The lab studies how to design apartment buildings that can be built with less energy and fewer resources.
*Illustrative imageHousing environments in hot and humid Asia
The lab studies housing and living environments in the hot and humid climate of Asia.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Takaguchi Lab are faculty, researchers, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroto Takaguchi
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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: “Stevenson screen, Crohamhurst Observatory, 2021” Kerry Raymond / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Forest resources and the circulation of buildings: “Cedar plantation” Zbttp / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Using building energy data: “Closeup of sand” Ypiyush22 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Energy- and resource-saving apartment buildings: “Beeswax foundation” Plantsurfer / Public domain (cropped)
- Housing environments in hot and humid Asia: “DSCF1090 A peaceful wooden stilt house shaded by a leaning tree reflected in the calm waters of a riverside canal” PattayaPatrol / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (田辺研究室): “Rooftop solar panels in Caldicot - geograph.org.uk - 6388281” Jaggery / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (渡邊研究室): “Mangrove roots in the Laguna de La Restinga” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (吉村研究室): “Tiny house, Portland” Tammy / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (宮本研究室): “Government Center Study models ( )” City of Boston Archives from West Roxbury, United States / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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