Final project for the MIT class 4.550/4.570 Computation Design Lab
Development: February-May, 2022
Instructor: Prof. Takehiko Nagakura, Dr. Daniel Tsai & Prof. Guzden Varinlioglu

What window view does young people living in Tokyo have?
How different is it compared to our expectation of life in Tokyo?
[Expectation] vs [Reality] comparison

All figures created by author unless otherwise noted

Project Overview

RESEARCH QUESTION(S)

What information can we take from the window view from someone's apartment?

What can we use this for?

Why is this important?

How is this related to the cityscape, or design heritage?


MOTIVATION

Pre-knowledge:

- Tokyo has 23 wards.
- Each city/Ku has its own culture/purpose
- financial/university-based/shopping/governmental/residential...etc

- The pool of young professionals, age 23-30+
- Mostly first time living by themselves
- With their limited budget for apartment rent
- Friends and people around myself

Fig 1. Collected 44 photos: 12 students, 31 non-students

Fig 2. 7 Bunkyo-ku; 7 Taito-ku; 5 Minato-ku

Fig 3. Result - places2.csail.mit.edu

Fig 4. Result - places2.csail.mit.edu

Fig 5. Result - nltk

Fig 6. Result - nltk

Fig 7. Personal Speculation - privacy -> # of windows

Conclusion

QUESTIONS
- What information can we take from the window view from someone's apartment?
- What can we use this for?

- Does not measure the satisfaction of the living quality
- The attributes that the program DOES NOT recognize are the uniqueness
- Potential for a connection between high/low and satisfaction, price, privacy level...etc