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Komatsu Lab (Komalab)
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The lab, specializing in architectural planning, studies places where people feel they belong and how to give new life to buildings that are no longer used.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking architecture and communities through people's places to belong
The Komatsu Lab specializes in architectural planning and studies the nature of places where people feel they belong (ibasho), as well as how to make use of buildings that are no longer used.
The lab also works on the planning of public buildings and spaces created with citizens taking the lead, and on the design of campuses and towns through collaboration between the university and the local community.
In planning schools and similar facilities, the lab has supported projects by holding repeated workshops with local residents.
Key terms
- Architectural planning
- The field that considers a building's scale, room layout, and spatial design to suit the activities and lives of the people who use it
- Ibasho (a place to belong)
- A place where a person can spend time feeling secure and sense that it is their own
- Workshop
- A gathering where participants work out ideas together through discussion and hands-on activities
ResearchResearch themes
Specializing in architectural planning, the lab studies how places where people feel they belong are created within architectural and urban spaces, and how to make use of buildings that have ended their original use. It also engages in the planning of public buildings and spaces based on citizen initiative, and in practical research on workshops for learning about architecture and communities.
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The members of the Komatsu Lab are faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHisashi Komatsu
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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: “Bremerton, WA public library interior” Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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