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Human Living Environment Lab
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A lab that studies light and color from the way people perceive them to think about the environments where people live.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing living environments suited to people.
The Human Living Environment Lab scientifically investigates how people perceive and behave in response to light and color, and considers what living environments suited to people should be like.
Based on these findings, it empirically studies models for evaluating the visual environment and design methods.
The lab includes the Ishida Lab, which studies light and color, and the Komiyama Lab, which studies architectural design.
The Komiyama Lab studies architectural design from the perspectives of architectural construction methods and architectural information.
Key terms
- Luminous environment
- The brightness and state of light in a room or town, created by lighting and sunlight.
- CLT (cross-laminated timber)
- A thick, strong wood panel material made by gluing layers of boards together with the grain directions crossing.
- Daylight
- The brightness during the day from sunlight entering through windows and other openings.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab scientifically explores human perception, cognition, and behavior in relation to light and color in living environments, and studies evaluation models and design methods for the visual environment. From the perspective of architectural construction methods, it also works on designing architectural prototypes.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating and Designing Luminous Environments Based on How People See
The lab seeks to understand how people recognize and evaluate light in their living environments, and explores ways to create luminous environments that suit human psychology and behavior. It studies topics such as how bright a space feels and design methods that combine daylight and electric lighting.
*Illustrative imageScientifically Evaluating Color in Everyday Life
The lab investigates how colors and visual information used in signs and symbols are seen, and conducts research related to appropriate design methods and the development of international standards. It also builds models that support color design by capturing how colors in architecture and cities appear and what psychological effects they have.
*Illustrative imageDesigning Architectural Prototypes from the Perspective of Construction Methods
From the perspective of construction methods and an interdisciplinary architectural-information perspective, the lab uncovers the hidden history of architecture and designs architectural prototypes. It also studies the design and development of construction methods using new engineered timber materials such as CLT.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTaiichiro Ishida
- LecturerYosuke Komiyama
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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: “Daylight Redirecting Film” Daylighting01 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating and Designing Luminous Environments Based on How People See: “Dülmen, Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Innenansicht” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Scientifically Evaluating Color in Everyday Life: “Family Restroom Sign” MarkBuckawicki / CC0 (cropped)
- Designing Architectural Prototypes from the Perspective of Construction Methods: “NPS Preservationists are at work laying out the timber frame joinery for the Warfield House roofing. Timber frame joinery (35560cdd-6d7c-4f7e-a765-9efbdccc8de6)” NPS Photo / Public domain (cropped)
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