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Daiki Nakamizo, Associate Professor
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The Nakamizo Lab studies earthquake engineering and structural design of buildings. The lab specializes in “design input ground motion,” which expresses how much shaking an earthquake is expected to exert on a building. It also studies “performance-based design,” in which the performance required of a building is determined in advance, and dynamic interaction, in which the ground and a building affect each other.
Naoyuki Koshiishi, Professor
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The Koshiishi Lab studies the materials and construction methods of buildings. The lab works on “traditional plastering techniques” for applying earthen walls, and on improving the durability of timber buildings. It also studies waterproofing materials and methods that keep rainwater out, as well as materials and methods for exterior walls and interiors.
Kosei Ishida, Associate Professor
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The Ishida Lab researches how to raise productivity at the construction sites where buildings are built. The lab works on ICT-based construction, which uses data such as 3D surveying to grasp conditions on site. It also analyzes the working time required for construction work and studies ways to improve work efficiency on site.
Bikash Lamsal, Associate Professor
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The Lamsal Lab researches the development of technologies actually used in the construction industry, from the perspectives of both architecture and information technology. The lab works on indoor self-localization where GPS signals do not reach, technology that assesses workers' health using only a smartphone camera, and the use of 3D printers at construction sites. By linking architecture and information science, the lab aims to advance construction DX, which solves problems at construction sites.
Norihito Nakatani, Professor
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The Nakatani Lab builds on existing research in architectural history to establish and develop a new field called "historical engineering." Things made in the past keep influencing today's cities, like the kofun burial mounds that make roads curve around them, or the rice paddies of the jori system that have turned into housing developments. From proposals for preserving and reusing historic buildings, to uncovering settlements that have lasted a thousand years, to translating modern architectural texts, the lab creates an academic space where old and new intermingle.
Masaki Koiwa, Associate Professor
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As part of the architectural history lab, the Koiwa Lab studies the history of architecture from Japan to Asia and the West. Reading classical architectural treatises and conducting measured surveys of temples, shrines, and farmhouses in Japan during summer vacation have been passed down through generations as joint work of the whole lab. In addition to surveys in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and elsewhere, the architectural history lab also plays a central role in the Japanese government's project to restore and preserve the Angkor monuments in Cambodia.
Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Professor
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The Miyamoto Lab centers on architectural design practice and develops architectural design theory and the theory of architects as authors from an architect's perspective. Based on "Doken Kukan-ron" (civil engineering–architecture spatial theory), which considers the closely related fields of civil engineering and architecture together, the lab studies how landscapes come into being. Participation in the lab's projects is open, and students take on a wide range of design work, from exhibition design and small extensions and renovations to high-rise buildings.
Yasutaka Yoshimura, Professor
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The Yoshimura Lab studies possible future forms of architecture and cities in Japan, where the population is declining. It considers what architecture can be through three lenses: semi-movable architecture, semi-urban architecture, and semi-information architecture. It also takes up an interdisciplinary field: how technologies from outside architecture, such as drones, self-driving cars, robots, IoT, and AI, will change cities and architecture.
Tomoyo Hokibara, Associate Professor
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The Hokibara Lab studies fire safety in buildings and how people evacuate when a disaster occurs. For large and medium-scale tall timber buildings, which are attracting attention for decarbonization and the use of forest resources, the lab is developing theory that links fire protection and fire resistance performance to actual design. The lab also studies fire safety frameworks for preserving and continuing to use historic timber buildings, and evacuation systems that serve people who are vulnerable in disasters.
Midori Yamada, Associate Professor
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The Yamada Lab studies circular architecture from the perspectives of building production, materials, and construction methods. The lab considers how to use locally available materials in a circular way. In other words, it looks at the production and construction methods needed to make good use of natural materials, demolition materials, and reclaimed timber. The lab has built up a body of work on earthen architecture and plastering (sakan). Through field surveys such as on-site measurement and interviews, as well as experiments, it places importance on working with its hands while engaging directly with real buildings and materials.
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