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Architecture and Urban Human Factors Lab
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The lab uses human behavior and psychology as clues to think about the future of architecture and cities.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking architecture and cities through human behavior and psychology
The Architecture and Urban Human Factors Lab studies the interrelationship between the spatial structures and social systems of architecture and cities, and human behavior and psychology.
By clarifying this relationship, the lab works on research related to the spatial composition of architecture and cities, disaster prevention planning, community facilities, and methods for improving housing and residential areas.
The main research themes are human factors in architecture and cities, housing management, suburban residential areas, urban and spatial analysis, and community facility planning and architectural planning.
The lab welcomes participation in its lab seminars and lab visits.
Key terms
- Suburban residential areas
- Residential areas located on the outskirts of a city. This lab studies topics such as how to regenerate and restructure aging residential areas
- Metropolitan area
- A wider area made up of multiple connected regions. This lab considers new living areas created by cooperation among regions within the same metropolitan area
- Housing management
- A research theme on mechanisms that make the management and circulation of housing run smoothly and support residents in choosing and managing their housing
NewsLab news
A research study by a graduate of the lab was published in Urban and Regional Planning Review
A research study by a doctoral student was published in AIJ Journal of Technology and Design
Research by Assistant Professor Aoki and colleagues was published in Urban and Regional Planning Review
A paper by Professor Itami was published in Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
Research on suburban residential areas was published in a report of the Zenrosai Association's open-call commissioned research
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify the interrelationship between the spatial structures and social systems of architecture and cities, and human behavior and psychology. Based on this, it studies the spatial composition of architecture and cities, disaster prevention planning, community facilities, and methods for improving housing and residential areas.
*Illustrative imageHuman factors in architecture and cities
The lab clarifies what regularities exist in human perception and behavior in architectural and urban spaces. It aims to establish planning methods that improve disaster prevention and evacuation performance in both everyday and emergency situations, as well as architectural and spatial designs that are easy for everyone to use.
*Illustrative imageHousing management
To make the management and circulation of housing run smoothly, the lab argues for the need to give residents peace of mind and to have supporting actors such as architecture-related businesses, NPOs, and communities. It studies how to support people in choosing and managing their housing.
*Illustrative imageRegeneration and restructuring of suburban residential areas
The lab studies how to regenerate and restructure aging suburban residential areas. It also takes into view the creation of living environments suited to new generations of child-rearing households as generations turn over, as well as changes among residents and the realities of how people choose where to live.
*Illustrative imageUrban and spatial analysis
The lab clarifies the causes, phenomena, and forms of urban shrinkage and the emergence of low-density areas. It also addresses new living areas created by cooperation among regions within the same metropolitan area, and aims to transform cities into sizes suited to their population and way of life.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Architecture and Urban Human Factors Lab consist of faculty, professors emeriti, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorEmiko Itami
- Assistant ProfessorTakashi Aoki
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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: “Belmayne housing estate” Torlogh (talk) (Uploads) / CC0 (cropped)
- Human factors in architecture and cities: “Girls in Shibuya Scramble Crossing ( by Yoshikazu TAKADA)” Yoshikazu TAKADA from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Housing management: “Harderwijk - Drielanden - Chopindreef - View South on Social Housing Complex 1995, the first realised project of this residential area” Txllxt TxllxT / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Regeneration and restructuring of suburban residential areas: “Manoa from ridge” Sdkb / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban and spatial analysis: “Urban Sprawl in Country Queensland, South-west Warwick, 2021” Anonymous / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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