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Akihito Ozaki, Professor
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The Healthy Building Environment Lab theoretically analyzes the movement of heat, mass, and air in cities and buildings, and elucidates the physical phenomena of the built environment. Building on building physics, the lab works on the design of living environments that excel in energy saving, durability, and well-being, and on the design of building functions that use advanced equipment systems and renewable energy. Put simply, the lab uses numerical simulation techniques to scientifically design buildings that are comfortable to live in and kind to the global environment. Because the urban and building environment consists of a human system, a building system, and an equipment system, it is necessary to understand people's physiological and psychological needs, design heat, light, and air passively, and then control them actively with equipment. The topics covered include passive systems and highly efficient equipment systems for energy saving, the design of living environments and functions in advanced buildings, temperature and humidity control and condensation prevention technologies for highly durable buildings, dynamic prediction and evaluation of the building environment based on coupled analysis of heat, mass, and air movement, and prediction of future energy consumption of cities and buildings and measures against global warming. The lab also continues its research on developing next-generation, high-performance buildings that combine insulation, heat shielding, airtightness, ventilation, heat collection, heat rejection, heat storage, and humidity control, and on numerically showing how facade design affects a building's thermal environment. The lab's Assistant Professor analyzes the thermal environment of buildings using future weather data that incorporates climate change due to global warming, and is conducting research that measures the quality of architecture from a well-being perspective, including factors such as greenery, biodiversity, sustainable living, and community. Another pillar of the lab is developing a thermal environment simulation model using urban information from PLATEAU, the 3D city data, and developing and implementing ThermalOne, a building thermal environment simulation software the lab has nurtured.
Daisuke Sumiyoshi, Professor
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The Sustainable Building Energy Lab conducts research on reducing the energy consumed in buildings. The building sector accounts for one third of society's total energy consumption, so cutting it is an important theme for achieving a decarbonized society. In its urban-scale research, the lab forecasts the future energy consumption of buildings and, by combining supply equipment such as solar power generation, storage batteries, and hydrogen fuel cells, sketches a vision of future urban energy. In its research on human behavior, the lab conducts repeated experiments to verify how information delivered through smartphone apps and IoT tools can steer people's behavior toward energy saving.
Yoshiki Hori, Professor
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The Urban and Architectural History Lab studies the history of cities and architecture by investigating ancient Roman urban sites, castles, and more. It conducts field surveys at sites such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia in Italy and Akoris in Egypt, and is also digitizing sites with laser scanners. The lab has also carried out research involving measured surveys of samurai and commoner houses from the Edo to Meiji periods in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Architectural and Urban History Lab."
ZHAO SHICHEN, Professor
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The Urban Planning Lab is based on urban analytics. It reproduces or decodes complex urban phenomena with mathematical methods in pursuit of the "reality" of cities. Urban planning is the technique of planning urban space, as the setting of human life, to be safe, comfortable, and beautiful, and of bringing that plan to reality. While conducting empirical research grounded in theory, the lab aims to train people who are familiar with conditions in Japan and abroad and who can adapt to different cultures.
Takeru Sakai, Professor
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The Public Space Planning Lab studies how to create sustainable, compact cities, building on urban planning, urban design, and landscape planning. Its subjects are specific places, such as high-density urban areas in Asian cities, projects in the Fukuoka metropolitan area, the Itoshima Peninsula, university campuses, streets, and plazas. Targeting spaces at various scales, from individual buildings as units to urban space as a collection of them, the lab considers methods of planning, spatial design, and evaluation. The keywords of its research are interaction, landscape, area management, and community development (machizukuri).
Yasuko Koga, Associate Professor
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The Architectural Lighting Lab studies the design, evaluation, and control of the luminous environment inside and outside buildings. From both the physical aspects of the environment and the psychological and physiological aspects of people, the lab considers how to create comfortable, healthy architectural spaces. To date, the lab has developed daylight models based on long-term continuous measurements of daylight and solar radiation, and has studied visual responses related to sleep and wakefulness to the spectral distribution of light sources. For designing and evaluating architectural spaces using virtual reality (VR) environments, the lab is focusing on developing methods for designing building envelopes and windows based on the visual information in 3D city models.
Kaoru Suehiro, Professor
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The Architectural Design Lab deepens its understanding of architecture and cities through research on architectural design practice and the issues surrounding it. The lab aims to educate people who will go on to work as architects. Separately from its research, the lab helps run design event activities, where members interact with other universities and architects, and carries out professional design work jointly with NKS2 Architects. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Suehiro Lab."
Tsutomu Shiga, Associate Professor
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From the perspective of architectural planning, the Sustainable Housing Planning Lab focuses on the relationship between people's lives and space, and studies local housing and community development, facility planning, and related topics. In densely built residential areas and hillside residential areas, the lab continuously takes part in projects to improve living environments and in residents' community development activities, carrying out its research in cooperation with resident organizations and government departments. In recent years, the lab has studied hillside residential areas, investigating how population decline hollows out these neighborhoods and worsens their living environments. The lab also puts effort into developing community development methods built on activities in which local organizations, such as neighborhood associations, manage their own living environments.
Takeshi Kurose, Professor
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The Urban Design Lab studies design methods that improve the relationship between the "things" and the "people" that shape a city. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, civil engineering, and landscape architecture, the lab's basic approach is to re-examine the built environment that forms a city from a human perspective. Starting from reading the topography and history layered in a city and observing what is actually happening on site, the lab aims to be a place where students find their own research themes.
Naoki Tsurusaki, Associate Professor
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The Regional Regeneration Design Lab studies urban spaces such as plazas, streets, and underground shopping malls, along with the behavior and conduct of the people who use them. Through clarifying the individuality of cities and regions, analyzing the characteristics of spaces and the behavior of their users, and analyzing regeneration cases in Japan and abroad, the lab thinks about future urban and regional design. The lab also takes universities and their campuses as subjects, and aims to develop methods for future campus planning and design.
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