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Architectural Planning Lab
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A lab of architectural planning that studies architectural and urban spaces that are kind to people.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring architectural and urban spaces that are kind to people and let them be themselves.
The Architectural Planning Lab studies what architectural and urban spaces should be like so that they are kind to people and let them be themselves.
The lab considers a space that is kind to people to be one where comfort and ease of understanding coexist.
In the fields of facilities, community, housing, and participation, example research topics include facilities for older adults and children, housing, and community participation.
The lab also works on projects with local people, set in housing complexes and towns.
Key terms
- Community Care Plaza
- A neighborhood welfare hub unique to Yokohama City. A one-stop service facility that anyone can visit, including children and parents with children.
- Multigenerational mutual support
- A system in which people help one another across generations, making use of local resources such as people and goods.
- Distributed continuous-residence system
- A distributed housing system that enables people to keep living in the community they are used to until the end of life.
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Haruka Tsukuda received the 2026 Architectural Institute of Japan Prize (Achievement / Special Recovery and Reconstruction Award)
Thinking About Cities through Planetary Health, with Professor Yasuhiro Fujioka joining as an editor and author, has been published
An undergraduate student won the top prize in the student paper contest of the Urban Housing Sciences Association
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores spaces that are kind to people and spaces that let people be themselves. It conducts research in the fields of facilities, community, housing, and participation, and also works on projects with local people.
*Illustrative imageResident-Led Welfare Community Development (Tokiwadai)
Prompted by the Tokiwadai Community Care Plaza and Community House in front of the West Gate of Yokohama National University, resident-led community development for welfare is advancing. The lab plans and runs workshops tailored to local issues, helping the community build a foundation for thinking for itself.
*Illustrative imageMultigenerational Mutual Support in Housing Complexes (Sakonyama, Sasayama)
In the Sakonyama and Sasayama housing complexes, where a student-residency program for Yokohama National University students is under way, the lab works on building sustainable multigenerational mutual support systems that make use of local human and material resources. In the future, it aims to realize arrangements such as multigenerational shared housing.
*Illustrative imageVertical Machiya Blocks That Carry the City Forward (Kannai and Kangai)
Starting from the concept of fire-break buildings and living blocks, the lab learns the ways of carrying a town forward and works on inheriting urban heritage in the historic center. It also devises and carries out architectural town-walk plans that children and adults alike can enjoy.
*Illustrative imageDistributed Community Welfare for Continued Living at Home
The lab aims to realize a distributed continuous-residence system that lets people keep living in the community they are used to until the end of life. In collaboration with a local nonprofit organization, it has supported the data management and use of vacant houses.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Architectural Planning Lab consist of faculty, technical specialists, a collaborating researcher (professor emeritus), and students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasuhiro Fujioka
- Associate ProfessorHaruka Tsukuda
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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: “New housing estate - geograph.org.uk - 8095099” Kevin Waterhouse / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Resident-Led Welfare Community Development (Tokiwadai): “Fukuike community welfare center 2025 a” 桂鷺淵 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Multigenerational Mutual Support in Housing Complexes (Sakonyama, Sasayama): “Shinsenri Nishimati Apartment of a housing complex - panoramio” yokoyokoi / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Vertical Machiya Blocks That Carry the City Forward (Kannai and Kangai): “BASEGATE Yokohama Kannai OMO7 Yokohama” KQuhen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Distributed Community Welfare for Continued Living at Home: “Whittier Mill Village neighborhood sign” Tyler Lahti / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Urban Planning Lab): “View over People's Park from the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center” Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Urban Environmental Management and Planning Lab): “Lancaster New City Cavite Southern Barangay Navarro Flood Hazard map” Ervin Malicdem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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