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Yumiko Iwafune, Professor
Energy & Batteries0 student voices
The Iwafune Lab studies which kinds of systems have a low environmental burden (in terms of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions) and how to put them into practice. The lab poses a problem related to energy, investigates and organizes the current situation, solves the problem using methods such as systems engineering, and analyzes the results. Because many conditions must be considered, including cost-effectiveness, resource availability, and people's preferences, the lab conducts interdisciplinary research that combines engineering with social sciences such as economics. The lab is recruiting graduate students and accepts requests for lab visits and consultations about graduate school entrance exams at any time.
Saori Imoto, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Imoto Lab conducts research and practice around three major themes: recovery from disasters, living environments in impoverished areas such as slums, and children's facilities that benefit their communities. Through fieldwork such as interviews and measured surveys, the lab seeks to understand communities and considers the roles architecture can play within them, as well as the methods for fulfilling those roles. The lab website introduces activities including visits to disaster-affected areas and to architecture and community development sites, lab seminar retreats, self-build construction in places such as Kenya, and participation in design competitions. This is the lab of Associate Professor Imoto, who moved from Japan Women's University to the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. The website is shared with the Imoto Lab at Japan Women's University.
Kotaro Imai, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
Imai Lab studies how urban and architectural space can be related to, and used to explain, the human activities that take place there. Its themes include methods for analyzing and evaluating urban space, spatial systems in architecture, design methods, new materials, and the retrofit of old buildings. The lab also designs buildings, including a tsunami evacuation complex in Izu City designed jointly with others, and "PENTA," a 3D-printed self-build experimental house. Every summer, the lab holds a lab seminar retreat to survey cities and architecture on remote islands and overseas, and at the end of May it opens its activities to the public.
Miki Kozaki, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Kozaki Lab studies what makes an environment comfortable for people and how people perceive their environment. The lab clarifies the relationship between the psychology of people who experience a space and physical factors such as light, sound, and heat, and uses this to evaluate spaces. Its research has focused especially on lighting and the visual environment, and the results have been applied to proposals for real spaces, such as lighting design for commercial stores.
Satoshi Yamada, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Steel Structures Lab studies seismic isolation and vibration control structures, with a focus on buildings made of steel frames (steel structures). Its work covers a wide range, from steel as a material to members such as columns and beams, seismic isolation devices and dampers, and entire buildings. Research proceeds through both experiments, such as shaking table tests and loading tests, and analysis, such as finite element analysis. The lab aims to realize highly earthquake-resistant steel structures that can continue to be used even after a major earthquake.
Tatsuya Asai, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
Asai Lab studies the performance evaluation of buildings against disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The lab combines shaking table tests, which shake buildings; loading tests, which apply force to see how specimens fail; and computer-based numerical analysis. After earthquakes, the lab also surveys damaged buildings to understand the actual state of the damage.
Jun Sato, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
Sato Lab explores and proposes structural forms for architecture based on material properties, mechanics, and geometry. The lab studies the performance of materials that have rarely been used in architectural structures, and proposes structural forms and design methods that make the most of them. Using original structural analysis software for form-finding, the lab puts into practice a design method in which form is determined by mechanics. The lab aims to create natural spaces like “komorebi” (dappled sunlight through trees) with see-through structures made of slender members.
Seitaro Tajri, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Tajri Lab studies design methods for making buildings safer, focusing on reinforced concrete structures. The lab models buildings using mathematical models, develops and verifies those models through experiments and analysis, and aims to establish design methods and promote their adoption in society. The lab aims to develop not only highly detailed models but also simple, practical models that are useful to designers working in practice. The lab's work covers both the design of new buildings and the seismic retrofitting of existing buildings.
Gondo Tomoyuki, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Gondo Lab studies building construction methods and building production, the systems through which buildings are made. As the environment surrounding building production changes through a shortage of craftspeople, mechanization, and other factors, the lab considers how buildings should be built going forward. The lab works on the history of prefabricated houses and high-rise buildings, surveys of construction sites in Japan and overseas, and the development of new construction methods and building techniques. Associate Professor Gondo also concurrently serves as a Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo's Endowed Chair for Building Production Management.
Ken'Ichi Kawaguchi, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Kawaguchi Lab researches and develops a variety of structures that take advantage of the strengths of three-dimensional structures. Three-dimensional structures are lightweight and resistant to deformation, and they make efficient use of materials. At the same time, their shape strongly affects their mechanical performance, and they often show complex behavior. The lab works on tension structures such as membrane structures and tensegrity, deployable structures that can be folded and unfolded, and the safety of large venues that attract many visitors.
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