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Hirokazu Suemitsu, Associate Professor
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The Architectural Design Engineering Lab studies methods of designing architecture and cities using digital technologies such as simulation and programming. As global warming and natural disasters increase and environmentally conscious, sustainable architecture is in demand, the lab carries out analytical research based not only on European climates but also on East Asian climates. The lab also uses digital technologies to study traditional local techniques and materials. The faculty members are Associate Professor Hirokazu Suemitsu and Associate Professor Bunji Izumi.
Kentaro Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Circular Architectural Structures Lab studies building structures that support reduction and reuse in order to lessen the burden on the global environment. The lab treats reduction as including the renovation of buildings so they can be used for longer, as well as the use of timber to fix carbon (reducing CO2 emissions). The research also covers the conservation of historic buildings and the development of spatial structures that make active use of wood-based materials. The structural types studied are wide-ranging, including brick construction, timber structures, historic reinforced concrete structures, hybrid reinforced concrete and brick structures, and vibration-controlled structures.
Shintaro Matsuo, Associate Professor
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The Sustainable Seismic Structures Lab focuses its research on connections in steel structures and concrete-filled steel tube (CFT) structures. Since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the importance of keeping buildings in use and restoring them quickly has been widely recognized again, and the scope of structural engineering research has broadened in many directions. At the core of the lab's research is the development of connections that are superior not only in mechanical rationality but also in constructability, economy, and sustainability, as well as the development of more rational design methods for existing connections. Every day, the lab works on structural experiments and analysis.
Toshiaki Sato, Associate Professor
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The Timber Structures Lab studies timber structures that use wood and wood-based materials as structural members. Wood has complex mechanical properties such as heterogeneity, anisotropy, and nonlinearity, making it a material whose behavior is difficult to predict accurately. To ensure seismic safety over the long service life of buildings, the lab works on a wide range of research, from basic studies to technology development.
Sung-Jun Yoo, Associate Professor
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The Building Environment Simulation Lab studies how the quality of the indoor environment, such as the thermal environment and air quality, relates to human health and comfort. To enable comprehensive prediction and evaluation of the interactions between indoor environmental factors and the human body, the lab develops numerical analysis models and applies them in practice. Experiments are limited in terms of time, space, cost, and ethics, so numerical experiments (simulations) based on digital twins of the built environment have recently drawn attention as a new approach. Focusing on numerical human body models for indoor environment analysis, the lab aims to predict and evaluate indoor environmental quality comprehensively and with high accuracy.
Prasanna Prasanna, Associate Professor
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The Habitat Engineering Lab studies how forming communities around public transit can improve the efficiency of urban land use. This approach is called Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). It encourages cities to grow upward rather than spread horizontally, creating dense and vibrant areas. The aim is for housing, shops, and entertainment facilities to be located near public transit and easily accessible.
Michiko Shigefuji, Associate Professor
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The Strong Ground Motion Engineering Lab studies the prediction and evaluation of strong earthquake ground motion (strong ground motion) that causes damage to society. Earthquake records observed at the ground surface contain the effects of the earthquake source, the propagation path, and the site characteristics of the sedimentary layers. The lab conducts field observations such as seismic observation and subsurface exploration, and investigates the factors that generate strong ground motion by analyzing the observed records. Its main research themes are the source characteristics of intraplate earthquakes, the effects of high-attenuation zones around volcanoes, the ground motion characteristics of sedimentary basins, and the attenuation characteristics of shallow subsurface ground.
Eiko Minoura, Associate Professor
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The Urban Space Studies Lab studies how cities have been built and rebuilt, from the standpoint of urban history. As cities and regions around the world modernize, they tend to lose their distinctive character, and urban space is becoming increasingly uniform. The lab therefore uses urban history research to clarify the actual state of urban culture, and focuses on passing that culture on through historic community development activities. The lab's research looks to the past, present, and future of urban space.
Doyun Lee, Associate Professor
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The Building Services Control Lab studies the control of air-conditioning and heat source systems. The lab works on evaluating the comfort of indoor environments using brain waves, controlling heat source systems for greenhouse horticulture, and optimizing the operation of building heat source systems. Some of the research uses model predictive control as the control method. Associate Professor Doyun Lee belongs to the Energy Research and Education Organization and holds concurrent appointments in the Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, and the Department of Spatial Systems, Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies.
Shohei Shigematsu, Professor
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BeCAT (Built Environment Center with Art & Technology) is an education and research center for design and engineering that takes the environment as its theme. Through investigation, research, and design, it aims to envision prototypes of environmental architecture for the Asia-Oceania region, implement them in society, and share them with the world. Taking Kyushu as a model for Asia, the center spends one year in a studio on research and design, under themes such as "energy," "disasters," "materials," "tourism," and "ecosystems."
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