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Kenichi Tsukahara, Professor
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The Land Policy and Disaster Prevention Lab studies how to build a safe national land and how cities and regions should be shaped in Japan, which faces population decline and growing disasters caused by climate change. To prepare for disasters that disaster prevention facilities alone cannot handle, the lab studies disaster prevention through social systems, including ways of living, land-use management, and local communities. Infrastructure management and international cooperation on urban problems in Asia are also research themes. Associate Professor Tatsuro Sato studies regional development that uses water as its axis, covering disaster prevention, the water environment, and renewable energy.
Masaru Yamashiro, Professor
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The Coastal and Ocean Engineering Lab studies how to understand, predict, and take countermeasures against coastal disasters such as typhoons, high waves, and storm surges. Focusing mainly on the Kyushu coast, the lab combines field observation, hydraulic model experiments, numerical simulation, and AI to capture phenomena and risks such as wave overtopping, storm surges, and high waves. The lab aims to turn the knowledge it obtains into technologies that benefit coastal communities, such as disaster prevention facilities and prediction systems.
Hironori Hayashi, Associate Professor
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The Watershed Systems Engineering Lab conducts research and education on systems in which nature and human activity merge, with water as the medium. Its foundation is engineering, but it aims to be a new field that merges the boundaries of a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities, natural sciences, agriculture, and ecology. Its work ranges from research on applied ecological engineering and sediment hydraulics to research on consensus building, landscape, and flood damage. The lab also works with citizens and government agencies to put actual river restoration and community building into practice. Research is carried out through field surveys and observations, physical model experiments, interviews and questionnaires, and workshops.
Hirofumi Hirofumi, Professor
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The Resource Circulation and Waste Engineering Lab researches technology development for promoting resource circulation and the proper treatment of waste, with the aim of moving toward a sustainable society. The lab also studies how to evaluate the rationality of these technologies, and works on both the hardware and software sides. It also conducts research that clarifies the interrelationships among the global environment, human activity, and social systems, with the aim of forecasting future environmental problems and proposing designs for social systems. The same site also introduces another division, the Resource Circulation IoT Systems Division.
Yosinari Hirosiro, Associate Professor
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The Aquatic Environmental Engineering Lab researches the groundwater environment and water-related problems such as heavy rain and drought. Its topics include groundwater quality and salinization, diagnosis of heavy rain using artificial intelligence, artificial rainfall using liquid carbon dioxide, and investigations of past debris flow disasters based on old documents. Its groundwater research is mainly conducted in the western part of Fukuoka City.
Satoko Seino, Associate Professor
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The Ecological Engineering Lab researches ecological engineering, centered on fieldwork, in coastal, river, and nearshore environments. Its scope is broad, ranging from the conservation and restoration of habitats for organisms on tidal flats and sandy beaches, to water resource management, laws and institutions for environmental planning and assessment, and regional planning for fishing villages. Its joint research is carried out not only with researchers at universities and research institutions, but also with a diverse range of partners, including local residents, NPOs, NGOs, and private-sector engineers. The lab's goal is a society in which people live in coexistence with the natural environment and ecosystems.
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.
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