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Human Settlement Studies Lab
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A lab that explores homes and towns that carry on a region's history and way of life.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward rich human settlements that are distinctive and diverse.
The Human Settlement Studies Lab studies living spaces such as cities, villages, buildings, and homes in terms of their relationship to regional character, culture, and time.
The lab includes the Kanki Lab, which works on urban and rural planning that inherits regional history and envisions how the spaces, environments, and activities of daily life are protected and continue to evolve.
It also includes the Yanagisawa Lab, which studies traditional housing in Asia and methods for renovating and regenerating buildings, and gives the results back to society through design and workshops.
The lab places importance on surveys and practice in the field, in Japan and abroad.
Key terms
- Cultural landscape
- A landscape that has emerged from the relationship between a region's nature and the lives of its people.
- Renovation
- Remodeling an existing building to give it a new use or new value.
- Housing experience
- An individual's experience of housing: what kinds of homes they have lived in and how they have lived in them.
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming for rich human settlements with both distinctiveness and diversity, the lab focuses on the relationship to regional character, culture, and time. It investigates the composition of living spaces, the processes of their formation and change, how they are used, and methods for reorganizing them, and puts the results into practice.
*Illustrative imageChanges in Traditional Housing in Asia
The lab investigates how traditional housing is changing in contemporary cities and villages, and what kinds of spaces and ideas are being chosen. By extracting patterns of change tied to each region, it considers the future of housing unique to each place.
*Illustrative imageReorganizing Housing Across Time
The lab explores methods of renewing cities and buildings that move beyond repeated building and demolition and preserve continuity over time. Through renovation and community development, it reads the past, layers present issues onto it, and creates the future, studying these methods through both theory and practice.
*Illustrative imagePlanning from Housing Experience
The lab focuses on housing experience, meaning the experience of home and daily life, which is at the core of one's values about architecture. It analyzes individual experiences of what kinds of homes people have lived in and how, for example by reconstructing floor plans from interviews, and considers methods for planning housing.
*Illustrative imageUrban and Rural Planning That Draws on Local Authenticity
The lab works on urban and rural planning in which the spaces, environments, and activities of daily life are protected and continue to evolve while inheriting a region's history. Valuing the perspective of cultural landscapes, it cooperates in Japan and abroad on housing design led by local communities.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKiyoko Kanki
- Associate ProfessorKiwamu Yanagisawa
- Assistant ProfessorYohei Kiyoyama
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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: “Village house in Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Changes in Traditional Housing in Asia: “KITLV A453 - Woningen en winkels aan de Kongsi Besar in de Chinese kamp te Batavia, KITLV 86409” 作者不詳
（KITLV） / CC BY 4.0 (cropped) - Reorganizing Housing Across Time: “Building undergoing renovation, old workhouse site, Abergavenny - geograph.org.uk - 5538427” M J Roscoe / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Planning from Housing Experience: “Living Room, Paul Schweiker House and Studio, Meacham Road, Schaumburg, IL” w_lemay / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Urban and Rural Planning That Draws on Local Authenticity: “Satoyama landscape near Hida, Gifu” Seth Vidal / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Architectural History Lab): “Exterior facade of Kannon Hall Buddhist temple with Goshikimaku Buddhist flags Ninna-ji Kyoto Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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