Department of Design, Graduate School of Design Environment and Heritage
Design Course

At the Design Workshop, students and faculty members acquire the basic skills and techniques for operating the various tools and processing equipment and engage in practical training to develop sensitivity to the different materials used in design. The Design Workshop is also used for other creative endeavors, such as graduation work, senior projects and various faculty and student productions.

The Environmental System Laboratory is a laboratory for creating and installing mock-ups to experience small spaces around humans in a life-size way while conducting evaluation experiments.

The Structural Testing Laboratory, located on the first floor of the Environmental Research Center, is a facility for studying and developing mechanisms to enhance building safety. Here we train students in experiments to test the strength of building materials using a 2000 kN universal testing machine. We also conduct experimental research on new architectural structures and construction methods using multipurpose equipment for structural load testing.

The Dark Room for Image Projection is a laboratory that uses computer graphics rendering to conduct psychological evaluation experiments. It is equipped with a 150-inch transparent screen for a wide field of view as well as a 120-inch high-brightness reflective screen.

The Presentation Room on the second floor of Building 2 is an essential space for design education at the Department of Environmental Design. This space is where design exercise classes for second- and third-year students are held and is a place for group discussion, drafting and other design work, academic guidance (planning/sketching), presentation, and criticism.