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Architectural Conservation and Regeneration Lab
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A lab that explores how to protect buildings and keep them in use in preparation for major earthquakes.
AboutAbout the lab
Making buildings safer and keeping communities sustainable.
The Architectural Conservation and Regeneration Lab studies ways to improve the seismic safety of cities and buildings against earthquake disasters.
It examines how well buildings can resist collapse under large-amplitude ground motion (collapse margin ratio) and develops design methods that improve seismic safety.
For traditional wooden buildings, it clarifies how they shake during earthquakes and is building up methods for seismic assessment.
The lab addresses not only the natural-science side but also social aspects such as history and culture, working on measures to conserve and regenerate cities and regions.
Key terms
- Collapse margin ratio
- A measure of how much reserve capacity a building has before it collapses.
- Structural health monitoring
- A system in which sensors attached to a building continuously watch for damage and changes in its condition.
- Seismic risk assessment
- A method of estimating the magnitude of earthquake damage together with how likely it is to occur.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies measures to protect human lives from earthquake disasters and to enable cities and regions to develop sustainably. Its scope ranges from building design methods to maintaining and improving seismic performance, and the behavior of foundations and ground.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating Safety Against Major Earthquakes
The lab develops performance-based design methods that define seismic loads and design criteria, and evaluates the safety of super high-rise, base-isolated, mid- to high-rise, and wooden buildings against inland earthquakes occurring directly beneath urban areas. It also works on seismic risk assessment that takes into account the period over which a building is used.
*Illustrative imageMaintaining and Improving Seismic Performance
The lab develops diagnostic methods for structural safety and structural health monitoring methods, and considers seismic risk management over time spans from short to long. For Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings and for buildings that are cultural properties, it predicts damage and proposes methods of conservation and regeneration.
*Illustrative imageSeismic Design Considering Foundations and Ground
Based on the premise that foundations and ground interact strongly, the lab builds seismic design methods that make use of the deformation capacity of steel pipe piles. It is also working to clarify how pile-supported structures behave under strong ground motion and to develop techniques for reusing existing foundations.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMina Sugino
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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: “Fukuoka Parco Main Bldg the seismic retrofit Tenjin 2-chōme Chūō-ku Fukuoka 20240812” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating Safety Against Major Earthquakes: “Minato City, Tokyo, Japan” David Kernan / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Maintaining and Improving Seismic Performance: “Tokaido Shinkansen Seismic retrofit 01” Dr.yellow / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Seismic Design Considering Foundations and Ground: “Heavy Harbor Construction Pile Driving in São Francisco do Sul Port - Brazil” Sabino Freitas Correa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Building Safety Control Lab): “Earthquake damage in San Francisco's Marina District on the north side of the city from the Loma Prieta Earthquake” Nancy Wong / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Building Construction Lab): “Reinforced concrete rusted rebars german bunkers Pointe du Hoc” Jebulon / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Building Earthquake Engineering Lab): “Kinematically equivalent building models on a shake-table” Shustov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Environment and Planning Lab): “Cherry Farm Hospital building” Benchill / Public domain (cropped)
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