Labs in Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering

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A lab that explores how to protect buildings and keep them in use in preparation for major earthquakes.

The Architectural Conservation and Regeneration Lab studies ways to improve the seismic safety of cities and buildings against earthquake disasters. It examines how well buildings can resist collapse under large-amplitude ground motion (collapse margin ratio) and develops design methods that improve seismic safety. For traditional wooden buildings, it clarifies how they shake during earthquakes and is building up methods for seismic assessment. The lab addresses not only the natural-science side but also social aspects such as history and culture, working on measures to conserve and regenerate cities and regions.

#Seismic safety #Traditional timber construction #Conservation and restoration

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A lab that studies light and color from the way people perceive them to think about the environments where people live.

The Human Living Environment Lab scientifically investigates how people perceive and behave in response to light and color, and considers what living environments suited to people should be like. Based on these findings, it empirically studies models for evaluating the visual environment and design methods. The lab includes the Ishida Lab, which studies light and color, and the Komiyama Lab, which studies architectural design. The Komiyama Lab studies architectural design from the perspectives of architectural construction methods and architectural information.

#Lighting environment #Color #Architectural design

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A lab that interprets the history of Japanese architecture and cities and passes it on to the future.

The Architectural History Lab studies the history of Japanese architecture and cities and considers how to pass historic buildings and townscapes on to the future. It aims to understand architecture and cities comprehensively, not only in terms of style and technology but also together with society, religion, culture, and the natural environment. Members read old records and Buddhist scriptures and conduct surveys at temples, archaeological sites, and excavation sites. It is the lab of Professor Tomishima and Associate Professor Iwamoto, and is also called the Tomishima-Iwamoto Lab.

#Japanese architectural history #Urban history #Historic building conservation

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A lab that re-examines, from a wide range of perspectives, why a given building was built.

The International Architectural Criticism Lab studies the development of contemporary Japanese architecture from the standpoint of theory and criticism. The lab believes that now, when design and construction technologies have become highly advanced, it is all the more necessary to ask the fundamental question of why buildings have been built. By carefully reading texts, images, and the buildings themselves, the lab situates architecture within the broad contexts of art, culture, politics, and economics. Students work on both writing critical texts and experimental design.

#Architectural criticism #Architectural theory #Contemporary Japanese architecture

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A lab that makes concrete buildings resistant to earthquakes and long-lasting.

The Building Construction Lab develops high-performance members and structures, mainly for buildings made of concrete, and studies design methods for them. The lab aims to protect the safety and property of the people who use buildings against earthquakes, fires, deterioration, and other hazards, and to provide comfortable spaces over a long period of time. The lab combines structural experiments using scaled specimens with computer-based numerical analysis such as the finite element method. The lab is also called the Tani Lab, and on its website it invites people to "come and hear more."

#Reinforced concrete structures #Seismic design #Structural experiments

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A lab that uncovers human behavior and psychology and applies it to architecture and communities.

The Architectural Environment and Planning Lab analyzes and evaluates architecture and communities from the perspectives of the psychology, behavior, and relationships of the people who use them, and applies the results to design and planning. In addition to efficiency and function, the lab aims for architecture that enhances people's well-being (living well). The results of this research are also applied to actual design of healthcare and welfare facilities, offices, streetscapes, and more. The lab is led by Professor Miura and Associate Professor Sakatani, and is also called the Miura-Sakatani Lab.

#Architectural planning #Environmental behavior #Healthcare and welfare architecture

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The lab solves heat and moisture problems to protect people's daily lives and cultural properties.

The lab studies methods of regulating buildings and their surrounding environments to realize architecture where people can live in health, comfort, and peace of mind. While taking the global environment into account, the lab focuses mainly on heat and moisture problems related to buildings and cultural properties. It also studies how to preserve and open to the public cultural heritage such as mural paintings, burial mounds (kofun), and cliff-face Buddhas (magaibutsu) without damaging them. Targeting a wide variety of buildings in Japan and abroad, the lab carries out everything from field surveys to calculation, analysis, and experiments.

#Building environmental engineering #Heat and moisture transfer #Cultural heritage conservation

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The lab explores a theory of architecture as lively as life itself, starting from design practice.

Through projects that design actual buildings, the lab studies new design methods and theories for lively spaces. Focusing on architectural space as the foundation of social life, the lab examines the meaning and formation of space and builds design theories for spaces that are organic and full of diversity. Taking on experimental design activities that are possible precisely because it is a university lab, the lab considers what architecture should be in the future. The lab is led by Professor Hirata and is also known as the Hirata Lab.

#Architectural design #Design theory #Computational design

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The lab asks what "good architecture" is and explores the answer through theory and design.

The lab explores architectural theory, which fundamentally asks what "good architecture" is, through both research and architectural design. Considering architecture not as a convenient tool or a work of art but as a world of life shared by people, the lab probes what a place means for human beings. In addition to architectural theory, the lab studies urban theory and theory of landscape, and also makes architectural and urban design proposals based on surveys in the Higashikujo district of Kyoto. With many international students, the lab has a strong international character. It is also known as the Taji-Inomata Lab.

#Architectural theory #Landscape theory #Architectural design

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建築都市融合デザイン学 (introduction coming soon)

We're preparing this lab's page. You can check its research on the lab's official website.