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Terazawa Lab
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The lab designs shells, spatial structures, and super high-rise buildings using digital tools.
AboutAbout the lab
Making architectural design exciting through structure and disaster prevention.
The Terazawa Lab studies shell and spatial structures and super high-rise buildings, with research that makes architectural design more exciting from the perspectives of structural engineering and disaster prevention.
The lab explores and puts into practice design approaches that make full use of digital tools.
It is also advancing seismic design methods grounded in experiments and analysis.
It is a new lab that became independent from the Takeuchi Lab.
Key terms
- Shell and spatial structures
- Structures that cover wide spaces with fewer columns, using curved roofs or three-dimensional frameworks
- Form-finding
- A design approach that uses computation to search for strong and beautiful structural forms
- Response-controlled structures
- Structures that reduce a building's shaking during earthquakes by using seismic isolation or vibration control devices
NewsLab news
A patent for a jointly developed seismic assessment method was registered
A student received the Toka Award
Several supervised students were selected for the Young Researcher Excellent Presentation Award at an academic society conference
A supervised student was selected for the Architectural Institute of Japan's Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
The lab received the Technical Achievement Award from the Japan Steel Tower Association
ResearchResearch themes
Targeting shell and spatial structures and super high-rise buildings, the lab explores and puts into practice design approaches that make full use of digital tools. It also conducts broad research on advancing seismic design methods grounded in experiments and analysis.
*Illustrative imageForm-Finding of Shells and Spatial Structures
Structural form-finding is a research field that searches for structural forms that are both strong and beautiful. Because of the computation time required, methods that take seismic response into account are still under development. The lab is developing a computing environment based on fast seismic response evaluation and working to clarify which structural forms are effective against seismic response.
*Illustrative imageResponse Control of Super High-Rise Buildings
A super high-rise building can be regarded as a slender cantilever, and seismic response caused by overall bending is prominent. The lab investigates in detail the dynamic characteristics of response-controlled structures that make use of this response, and aims to propose optimal design methods for them.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping Optimal Design Approaches
There is a demand for design methods that can quickly find the optimal placement of seismic isolation and vibration control members for a structural frame of any shape. The lab continues to develop and apply optimal design approaches that rapidly evaluate the seismic response of 3D models with dampers installed.
*Illustrative imageAI-Based Design Tools
In seismic design practice, a design solution different from the computed optimum is often chosen. The lab is developing tools that use artificial intelligence to exhaustively analyze a large number of design options, so that designers can survey the full range of solutions and plan member layouts.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Terazawa Lab are faculty, master's and undergraduate students, and visiting researchers.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYuki TerazawaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Duxford UK Feb2005 American” Bluemoose / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Form-Finding of Shells and Spatial Structures: “Auditório Simón Bolívar 01” Dornicke / Public domain (cropped)
- Response Control of Super High-Rise Buildings: “Guatemala City - Zone 14 - High Rises & Skyscrapers 6” Rene Hernandez / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Developing Optimal Design Approaches: “Seismic damper” Simiprof / CC0 (cropped)
- AI-Based Design Tools: “GERB spring with damper” Shustov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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