建築的な工夫によって風、太陽の光や熱などの自然エネルギーを取り込み、機械の依存を最小限にすることで快適な室内環境を作り出す設計手法は、パッシブデザインと呼ばれてきました。

私たちの周りには、自然エネルギーの他にも、多様な地域の特徴が潜在しています。建築はさまざまな環境的要素と、それらの循環によって重層され、空間として建ち現れるのではないでしょうか。

金子研究室の考えるパッシブデザインは、自然エネルギーの活用に加えて、これら地域の特徴こそが建築をつくる環境要素ととらえ、多くの地域の特徴を見つけ出し、積極的に取り入れることを”Passive”、それらによって環境への負荷を減らし、豊かな場をかたちにする応答としての”Responsive”、この双方向のデザイン”Passive and Responsive Design”をテーマとしています。

The design technique of creating a comfortable indoor environment by taking the advantage of natural energy such as wind, sunlight, and heat through architectural ingenuity and minimizing dependence on machinery has been called Passive Design.

There is a diverse range of potential local characteristics around us, as well as natural energy sources. An architecture is the various environmental elements and their cycles may be layered and appear as spaces.

Passive design in the Kaneko Lab’s point of view is based on the concept that, in addition to the use of natural energy, we believe that these features are the environmental elements of the region, and therefore we call the discovery and active incorporation of many local features as “Passive” and the response as “Responsive” to reduce the burden on the environment and give form to a rich place. In other words, the two-way design of “Passive and Responsive Design “has become the main theme of our laboratory.

By relating various environmental elements to create “overlap margin” and “seam allowance”, transforming boundaries into wide boundary areas, the process of creating a space with rich local character through scientific approaches and the use of modern tools is the process of the future passive design, which called “Passive and Responsive Design”.