2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Urban Design and Built Environment Laboratory S1
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Kei Sakamura / Tsubasa Okaze / Amana Hiraga / Hitomu Kotani / Seiji Tsuno / Yoshihiro Yamazaki
- Class Format
- Experiment (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-10 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- UDE.Z493
- Number of credits
- 001
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course is designed to perform the practice about methods of planing and design a built environment.
Course description and aims
Participants will acquire the following abilities.
1) Ability to discover and explore new issues in survey, plan, and creation in urban design and built environment.
2) Ability to find solutions for problems in urban design and built environment based on integration among different knowledges and
technologies.
3) Ability to explain concepts logically, develop arguments, and presentation.
Keywords
Data collection, data analysis, discussion, group work
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Two or three weeks are grouped, and various specialized professors in urban and built environment courses take charge in turn. With the aim of introducing urban and built environment courses, each student cooperates in a group based on the following points, and aims to propose a built environment through a series of tasks from survey and analysis to planning.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Group work based on the topics that supervisors in charge of this class plan. | Practical topics such as the improvement of the Tokyo Institute of Technology campus. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by Institute of Science Tokyo Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京科学大学学修規程) and Institute of Science Tokyo Rules on Graduate Learning (東京科学大学大学院学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Specified by the supervisors as necessary.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Specifics of the assessment criteria and methods, which are in accordance with the student learning outcomes 1-3, will be announced prior to the start of the course. The scoring will be based on such criteria and the eagerness toward lectures and workshops.
Related courses
- 400- and 500- level graduate major courses in Urban design and Built environment
Prerequisites
Students in urban design and built environment course.
Other
None