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Yasunori Akashi, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Akashi Lab researches how to make the energy systems used in buildings and communities energy-efficient and decarbonized. A distinctive feature of the lab is its use of information technologies, such as large volumes of sensor data (big data) and machine learning. The lab also works on the use of renewable energy and on creating healthy, comfortable indoor thermal and air environments. Together with Taniguchi Lab and Miyata Lab, the lab forms the "Building GX (Green Transformation) Research Group" and carries out joint activities.
Ippei Maruyama, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Maruyama Lab studies construction materials such as concrete from the perspectives of chemistry and physics. The lab aims to understand and predict how materials change over time, so that their performance over many years can be foreseen and put to good use. The lab also takes part in national projects, including technology for making new concrete from waste concrete and CO₂. The lab works together with the Noguchi Lab and the Yoshioka Lab as the "Building Materials Laboratories."
Ryozo Ooka, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Ooka-Kikumoto Lab studies the wind, thermal, and air environments of cities and buildings, as well as energy systems. The lab works on systems that use renewable energy and on control methods that optimize how energy is used. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), deep learning, and wind tunnel experiments, the lab investigates indoor airflow, cough droplets, urban wind, and air pollution. The Ooka Lab and the Kikumoto Lab work together as a joint group at the Institute of Industrial Science on the Komaba Campus.
Kengo Hayashi, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Hayashi Lab studies the history of architecture and cities, focusing mainly on Asian cities. It examines how cities and architecture relate to the nature, culture, and history of each place (the regional ecosphere), and works to document, pass on, and renew that relationship. It carries out projects in Japan and abroad, including documenting modern and contemporary architecture in Southeast Asia and restoring and reusing old buildings in Oman and Miyagi Prefecture.
Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Kawazoe Lab specializes in architectural design studies and researches sustainable urban and regional development. The lab covers a wide range of fields, including architecture, design, landscape, public space, community development, rural areas, and regional planning. The lab engages in both practical projects and theoretical research, and through the accumulation of this work, it seeks to draw a map of the world as seen through architecture. On its website, the lab presents projects such as the new construction and renovation of the General Library at the University of Tokyo and regional revitalization in Kada, Wakayama Prefecture.
Yurika Yokoyama, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Yokoyama Lab studies the relationship between people and the architecture and cities they have built, from the perspectives of cognition and behavior. The lab uses experiments and field surveys to examine how people feel and move, and aims to apply these findings as a foundation for design. It is an interdisciplinary lab for thinking about architecture, where graduate students from the Department of Architecture and the Sub-department of General Systems Studies join in discussions together at the lab seminar.
Yuji Matsuda, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Matsuda Lab studies the housing and living environments of people often called "minorities," such as people with disabilities and older adults. Through surveys, the lab clarifies what these people need and how those needs should be reflected in architecture. Its work covers living environments for people with disabilities, community life of older adults, walking environments for people with visual impairments, universal design, and more.
Unno Satoshi, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Unno Lab studies the history of Japanese architecture based on surviving buildings, documentary sources, and excavated remains. The focus is timber architecture from the prehistoric period to the modern era, and the scope also includes East Asia, which shares the same wooden-building culture. Through measured surveys of old buildings and assessments of their value, the lab also works to preserve them as cultural heritage for future generations and to put them to use. Students are not bound by the professor's own field, and pursue research on themes that match their individual interests.
Kaori Fujita, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Fujita Lab studies the structural characteristics of traditional timber architecture, particularly its strength against earthquakes (seismic resistance). The lab uses documents to investigate the damage historic timber buildings have suffered and their repair histories, and conducts field surveys of buildings in Japan and overseas. It also continues structural monitoring, measuring vibrations at five-story pagodas, gates, main halls of temples, and other buildings to keep track of their condition. The lab also takes part in joint research with overseas universities, such as a survey of wooden churches in Norway.
Shinichi Sakamoto, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Sakamoto Lab studies the sound environments of cities and architecture. Research proceeds in stages: predicting and measuring how sound propagates, reproducing sound in the laboratory, and evaluating how people perceive it. Activities center on experiments in acoustic laboratories such as anechoic chambers, and on measurements at real sites such as concert halls, railway stations, and roads. The sounds studied range from the reverberation of concert halls to everyday noise.
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