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Kazuyoshi Miyagawa, Professor
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The Miyagawa Lab studies turbomachinery, which converts between flow energy and rotational energy. Its subjects include pumps that feed fuel to rocket engines, pumps used in power plants and water supply and sewage systems, and turbines for hydroelectric power generation. Using both simulation and experiments, the lab investigates optimal blade shape design and the mechanisms of internal flow.
Seiichi Yamaguchi
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The Yamaguchi Lab studies the phenomena by which heat and mass move in various energy systems. The lab holds that the performance of an entire system is determined by the movement of heat and mass inside the components that make it up. Its research ranges widely, from elucidating small-scale phenomena to the optimal design and control of whole systems.
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.
Atsuo Takanishi, Professor
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The Takanishi Lab aims to understand humans by building robots that reproduce them. Tracing the mechanisms of the human mind and body, the lab conducts research and development on humanoid robots, working toward a society in which humans and robots live together. The lab works on human motion measurement, walking and running robots, a robot that plays musical instruments, and patient robots for medical training.
Shigeki Sugano, Professor
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The Sugano Lab studies robots that can work in the same space as humans, under the theme of human-robot coexistence. It applies human-machine systems, reexamined mainly from the perspective of biomechanisms, to human-coexistence robots, human-robot communication, intelligent production systems, and more. Divided into teams, the lab works on everything from developing components such as actuators and skin sensors to infrastructure inspection, remote operation, and assisting people.
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