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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.
Tatsuo Kanno, Professor
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The Urban Environmental Risk Lab studies earthquake ground motion and the subsurface ground that greatly influences it. A building is originally a shelter that protects people from the violence of nature, but once it collapses in an earthquake, it becomes a weapon that takes lives. The lab believes that it is important not only to build structures that withstand ground motion but also to understand ground motion itself, and that the key to this is understanding the ground. Based on earthquake observation data and on field observation of tiny ground vibrations (microtremors), the lab works on modeling subsurface structure and on ground motion simulation.
Toshihiko Ninakawa, Professor
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The Building Production Lab studies, both theoretically and experimentally, the mechanical behavior and performance evaluation of concrete-filled steel tube structures and steel-concrete structures. For traditional timber buildings and historic brick masonry buildings, the lab conducts research on safety assessment and on their conservation and use. The lab belongs to the Department of Architecture in the School of Engineering and to the Department of Space Systems in the Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies.
Tomoyuki Koyama, Associate Professor
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The Building Materials Lab studies the performance and durability of materials used in construction, especially concrete, as well as quality control at construction sites. Because making buildings last longer is also important for a sustainable society, the lab investigates the durability of materials under the environmental actions that cause buildings to deteriorate. The lab also works on the effective use of by-products from other industries, and on quality control at construction sites as global warming advances.
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