2023 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Practice of Environmental Design based on Environment-Behavior Study I
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Satoshi Nasu / Naruhiro Kuroshima / Seiji Takamatsu / Naoko Wakabayashi
- Class Format
- Lecture (HyFlex)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Wed (G3-207(G324))
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- UDE.E432
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2023
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 8, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Environmental design should integrate physical part with cultural and social part for solving contemporary social problems. In this course, we consider practical developments of environmental designs based on environment-behavior studies, through discussing with professional researchers.
Course description and aims
Through this course, studentswill understand modern methods of environmental design, and will be able to design built environments by using enbrionment-behavior studies. In detail, by the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Clarify basic knowledges for designing well built environments.
2) Do evidence based environmental design.
3) Consider design processes and its value for well designed built environment
Keywords
Environmental Design, Environment-Behavior, Design Process, Reigion, Place
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
At the biggining of this course, there are introductions for taking each classes and developping students' own research topics.
6 class will be given by professional researchers, and Students will develop their own subjects through whole schedule.
Finally, students must present their own research topics about environmental design for contemporary society.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction: Various fields of environmental Designs and environment-behavior studies | |
| Class 2 | Detail design and deteil development | |
| Class 3 | Groupe work on architectural design | Report for class Seeking research topic |
| Class 4 | Design of urban and architectural space for people | Report for class Seeking research topic |
| Class 5 | Practice of space syntax | Report for class Seeking research topic |
| Class 6 | Reigion and place attraction for inhabitants on urban area 1 | Report for class Seeking research topic |
| Class 7 | Reigion and place attraction for inhabitants on urban area 2 | Report for class Seeking research topic |
| Class 8 | Presentation about research on environmental design for contemporary society: Seeking research topic | Report for class Seeking research topic Presentation |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
course materials will be given via OCW or in each class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
course materials will be given via OCW or in each class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Report for every class(2-7) (30%), Final Presentation(70%)
Related courses
- UDE.D448 ： Architectural Awareness & Design
- UDE.E433 ： Practice of Environmental Design based on Environment-Behavior Study II
Prerequisites
No specific knowledge and skill needed
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
nasu.s.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Satoshi Nasu: Wed.the times after classes,
Part-time Lecturer: The time after each lecture.