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Tetsuya Sakuma, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Sakuma Lab (Environmental Acoustics Lab) studies the living environments of buildings and cities, with a particular focus on the sound environment. The lab examines how to predict and evaluate sound environments and how to design and control them, from both the physical side and the psychological and physiological side of human perception. It addresses issues such as architectural acoustics, noise and vibration, communication, and soundscapes, including their social and cultural aspects. The lab has a semi-anechoic room and a visual environment laboratory at Hongo Campus, and an anechoic room and an outdoor acoustic test building at Kashiwa Campus.
Masayuki Mae, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Mae Lab (Maelab) researches the component technologies and design methods needed to decarbonize housing. Its goal is a society where everyone, anywhere in Japan, can live healthy, comfortable lives without worrying about electricity bills. The lab's research rests on three pillars: experiments in facilities such as a rooftop test building, field measurements in actual homes across the country, and simulation, with particular emphasis on field measurements. The lab also supports the design of eco-houses that are actually built, placing great importance on a hands-on, on-site approach.
Tatsuya Itoi, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Itoi Lab conducts research on assessing and managing the risk of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The lab develops methodologies for evaluating building performance, assessing disaster risk across entire cities, and predicting and evaluating natural phenomena that cause damage (hazards), such as earthquake ground motion and tsunamis. Its research combines simulation, probability and statistics, and machine learning using big data. Project Associate Professor Koyama of the Social Cooperation Program "Next-Generation Numerical Simulation for Construction," and the students of the Koyama Lab, are also members of the lab.
Koichi Kusunoki, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Kusunoki-Maida Lab mainly studies the behavior of reinforced concrete buildings during earthquakes through experiments and analysis. The lab conducts experiments in which force is applied to structural members such as columns and beams, as well as experiments in which an entire building is shaken to examine how it moves. For its research on structural health monitoring, the lab measures and records the vibrations of actual buildings in a variety of regions. It is an international lab that brings together researchers not only from Japan but from many different countries.
Keisuke Toyoda, Project Professor
1 student voices
The Toyoda (Keisuke) Lab studies fields concerned with the integration and expansion of architecture and digital technology. Its central theme is systematizing the concept of "Common Ground," which connects physical and digital space, and putting it into practice in society. From the perspective of architectural informatics, the lab addresses new forms of design, construction, and use, as well as their relationship to spatial AI, game AI, and XR spaces. The lab conducts a lot of joint research with governments, companies, and other research institutions, and takes on a wide range of work, from design to research to real-world demonstration.
Keiichiro Taniguchi, Project Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Taniguchi Lab studies new ways to design and operate buildings using environmental simulation and IoT technology. The lab works on topics such as air-conditioning systems that respond to uneven temperatures within a room and to differences in how individual people feel heat and cold. The lab welcomes students who want to acquire new skills such as simulation and machine learning. Together with the Akashi Lab and the Miyata Lab, the lab forms the "Architecture GX Research Group" and carries out joint activities.
Shohei Miyata, Project Lecturer
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
Miyata Lab researches the foundational technologies for making buildings smart, and how to use them. The lab develops models that reproduce building services such as air conditioning on a computer, and control methods that operate equipment based on data. It is a new lab established through the "Smart Building System Social Cooperation Program," run jointly with companies, and it works together with the Akashi Lab. Research here mostly assumes programming skills, but Prof. Miyata himself had no programming experience until entering the master's program, and encourages students to grow through research.
Hideki Yoshioka, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
Yoshioka Lab specializes in building fire safety engineering and urban fire safety, conducting engineering research on safety against fire. The lab works on topics such as fire spread across combustible exterior walls, the toxicity of gases produced in fires, and fire prevention measures during construction work. The lab carries out its research through fire experiments and computer-based fire simulations, in collaboration with research institutions and companies in Japan and abroad. In addition to the topics introduced here, students can also take up topics related to fire safety in general and evacuation safety during fires.
Takafumi Noguchi, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Noguchi Lab researches and develops building materials based on the concept of “Architectural Genome Theory.” Architectural Genome Theory is an approach that traces the units that make up a building back to chemical substances in order to examine the building's quality, performance, and behavior. The lab's research covers not only concrete but also soil, mycelium, cellulose, gels, and waste roof tiles. Together with the Maruyama Lab and the Yoshioka Lab, the lab operates as the “Building Materials Lab.”
Toshio Otsuki, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Otsuki Lab studies, from the standpoint of architectural planning, what homes and towns should be like to support people's diverse ways of living. Through surveys, it clarifies how a variety of people make use of existing houses, housing complexes, and towns. It works not only on building new environments but also on how to remake the existing environment and hand it on to the next generation.
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