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Fumihiko Omori, Associate Professor
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The Omori Lab is an urban planning lab that unravels the history of cities, faces the present, and thinks about the future. The lab sees a city as something elusive that keeps changing as its residents are replaced over time. To face a city is to face its people, including the predecessors who once built the town and the children who will live in the city in the future. Centered on urban planning, the lab conducts surveys, research, and activities with cities, people, and the global environment as its broad scope.
Takuya Oki, Associate Professor
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The Oki Lab develops methods that use big data and AI to provide the "evidence" on which architectural planning and community development can rely. It works with diverse data, including images of building interiors and exteriors, real estate listings, social media, pedestrian flows, and gaze trajectories. Its research topics include where people get lost and stop in train stations, why parents choose the daycare centers they do, and circulation routes inside hospitals.
Shoichi Kishiki, Professor
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The Kishiki Lab studies technologies that protect buildings from earthquakes. It works on methods that limit damage to buildings through seismic isolation and vibration control, as well as seismic retrofitting of existing buildings. The lab also conducts research on assessing the extent of damage to buildings harmed by earthquakes and developing methods to repair them. Its subjects center on steel structures and extend to a wide range of structural types, including reinforced concrete and timber.
Shintaro Fukuda, Associate Professor
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The Fukuda Lab studies how to systematize the performance that building users require, element by element, and express it numerically. It investigates what performance is needed, and how much, for building elements such as floors, walls, roofs, and ceilings. The results serve as indicators for selecting materials and construction methods that meet users' requirements, and as a framework for setting construction conditions. The lab puts particular emphasis on evaluating floor slipperiness, floor hardness, and vibration transmitted to buildings.
Junko Koga, Professor
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The Koga Lab studies the performance of various building materials and of building elements such as walls and floors, with a focus on architectural finishing materials. In particular, it focuses on the effects that finishes have on buildings. Its subjects cover a wide range of issues related to the durability of exteriors and to the habitability and safety of architectural spaces. The lab was established at Institute of Science Tokyo in April 2026.
Sugawara Maiko, Professor
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Sugawara Lab studies barrier-free and universal design in architecture and communities, and inclusive educational environments for children and students with disabilities. The lab pursues the creation of "environments where everyone can live as themselves." With Japan and other countries as its research fields, the lab examines how local governments carry out barrier-free improvements and what standards apply to developing school educational environments. The lab has also studied community accessibility and inclusion in education in Denmark while affiliated with Aalborg University.
Yasumori Akio, Professor
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Yasumori Lab reexamines the study of architectural design (ishō) within the exchange between the Earth and society, and explores the theory and practice of future architecture. Through fieldwork on materials, industry, vacant land, and more, the lab considers architecture through the interplay between typology and ecosystems (ecology). Alongside architectural design aesthetics and building design, the lab also works on campus and urban design.
Keisuke Himoto, Professor
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Himoto Lab conducts research to realize buildings and cities that are resilient to disasters. Centered on knowledge from fire safety engineering, the lab explores its methodology by combining new analysis techniques that have recently been developed. Its topics include fire protection and fire-resistance design of timber buildings, prediction of fire spread in large-scale outdoor fires, and disaster prevention planning that takes social change into account. The lab is new, launched in April 2025.
Takaharu Nakano, Associate Professor
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Nakano Lab conducts research on building structures, focusing on the behavior of foundations during earthquakes. A foundation is a member that supports a building, and it also lies along the path through which ground motion is transmitted. Because the exchange of forces between the ground and the foundation affects how a building shakes, the lab investigates it through both experiments and analysis. The lab is also developing response reduction methods that use magnets to suppress building vibration.
Fuminori Nosaku, Associate Professor
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Nosaku Lab explores an ecological vision of architecture and cities, and investigates the theory and practice of architectural design based on the interconnection of things. Starting from the view that the collective power of humanity has upset the balance of the global environment, the lab considers architecture that reduces that power. Together with students, the lab works on actual building projects, such as reusing old timber salvaged from buildings being demolished and insulating with rice straw and rice husks. The lab is also involved in renovating a traditional old house in a village in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, and in circulating reclaimed timber in areas affected by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
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