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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.
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.
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