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Takashi Ariga, Professor
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The Ariga Lab studies the design and planning of residential areas where people live, and the preservation and regeneration of local living environments. The lab approaches its research from two perspectives: urban design, which links architecture and the city, and community design for local areas. While taking part in community development projects in Japan and abroad, the lab investigates local history and residents' memories to clarify what makes a residential area distinctive to its place.
Shin-ichi Tanabe, Professor
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The Tanabe Lab studies, through building environmental engineering, how to realize a decarbonized society that balances energy saving and comfort. The lab investigates how people's thermal comfort and indoor air quality affect their health and how easily they can work. Focusing on offices and homes, the lab also studies comfortable architectural spaces suited to people's ways of working and living.
Hiroto Takaguchi, Professor
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The Takaguchi Lab studies how to improve building performance and decarbonize buildings, based on environmental engineering and urban environmental engineering. The lab works not only on newly built buildings but also on developing technologies to improve the performance of existing buildings. The lab promotes "Environmental Media Studies," which looks beyond the boundaries of disciplines to find ways to create new value in architecture and cities.
Yasuhiro Hayabe, Professor
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The Hayabe Lab designs and studies building structures, focusing on seismic isolation structures. Professor Yasuhiro Hayabe worked on structural design at Taisei Corporation before becoming a professor at Waseda University. He has been involved in the structural design of buildings that use seismic isolation, including The Okura Tokyo and the Nippon Television Bancho Studio. He has also now opened Hayabe Structural Design Office, and works on building structures through both practice and research.
Susumu Yoshinaka, Professor
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The Yoshinaka Lab studies the seismic design of curved structures and spatial structures, based on structural engineering for architecture. The lab studies methods of reducing earthquake-induced building vibration using vibration control technologies such as TMDs (tuned mass dampers). Targeting buildings with large open spaces, such as the Yamagata Gymnasium, the lab verifies vibration control effects through experiments and analysis.
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.
Jin Kusaka, Professor
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The Kusaka Lab studies automotive engines and the powertrains of hybrid and electric vehicles. Tracing its roots to the Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory established in 1918, the lab continues hands-on research using actual engines and equipment. Developing engines and catalysts compatible with carbon-neutral fuels is one of the lab's central research themes.
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