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Kazuya Mitsui, Associate Professor
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Mitsui Lab studies everything from the performance of steel used as a structural material to the evaluation of the structural performance of members and connections. Most of its research themes are carried out jointly with Igarashi Lab in the same Department of Architecture and Building Engineering. Because producing iron emits a large amount of carbon dioxide, the lab explores designs that reduce the amount of steel used by devising cross-sectional shapes that allow thinner plates. The lab's approach is to confirm actual phenomena through structural experiments and verify them with finite element analysis and theoretical analysis.
Yuki Terazawa, Associate Professor
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The Terazawa Lab studies shell and spatial structures and super high-rise buildings, with research that makes architectural design more exciting from the perspectives of structural engineering and disaster prevention. The lab explores and puts into practice design approaches that make full use of digital tools. It is also advancing seismic design methods grounded in experiments and analysis. It is a new lab that became independent from the Takeuchi Lab.
Ryo Murata, Associate Professor
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The Murata Lab's main theme is how architecture and cities that respond to their environment are created. The lab conducts research and design that examine how architecture and cities relate to various historical and geographical contexts, in order to clarify the concrete mechanisms of excellent built environments. Elements such as courtyards and windows, for example, have taken diverse forms across eras and places as devices that mediate between architecture and nature. The lab also takes part in many international design competitions abroad, working on both research and design.
Taisuke Yamazaki, Professor
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The Yamazaki Lab specializes in architectural history and design, and studies the appeal of architecture and cities from a historical perspective. Focusing mainly on modern Japan, the lab has worked on modern Japanese-style architecture, the Imperial Capital Reconstruction Project, architects' archives, and postwar modern and contemporary architecture. The lab also carries out surveys, research, and conservation and renovation design for actual historic buildings. Through organizing architects' archives, students acquire the skill to read drawings correctly, and through measured surveys, the skill to turn buildings into accurate drawings.
Kikuo Ikarashi, Professor
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The Ikarashi Lab studies the steel frames of buildings. The field aims to design buildings that can withstand various forces such as earthquakes, wind, snow, and the building's own weight, making safer buildings possible. The lab mainly deals with buckling, a phenomenon in which a slender bar or thin plate, when compressed, fails under a force far smaller than the strength of the material. The lab places great importance on experiments, and even for one student's experiment, all members work together.
Amana Hiraga, Associate Professor
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The lab studies the conservation and use of historic buildings and historic environments. Its theme is “building a sustainable urban environment through the conservation and use of historic buildings and historic environments.” The lab pursues two kinds of research: work on the principles and systems needed to pass the historic value of heritage on to the future, and practical work that explores ways of using heritage that suit contemporary society. It covers the history of modern architecture in Japan and fields related to the conservation of cultural heritage.
Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Associate Professor
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The lab conducts research on building strong timber buildings that can withstand disasters, mainly earthquakes. It studies methods for simulating seismic response under severe conditions, such as the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, in which seismic intensity 7 earthquakes on the Japanese scale struck repeatedly. It also works on technologies that improve safety using passive vibration control devices that reduce shaking. Through experiments, the lab examines how the walls, floors, and roofs of detached houses, and the columns and walls of mid- to large-scale buildings, behave up to the point of failure, and develops methods for evaluating performance and for design.
Tadashi Ishihara, Professor
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The lab conducts research on building structures and non-structural elements, focusing on countermeasures against natural disasters such as earthquakes. It carries out loading tests and shaking table tests on non-structural elements such as ceilings and partition walls. It also covers the uplift behavior of buildings during earthquakes, steel structures, and loads from rain falling after snowfall. The lab was launched in April 2022 and aims to build the lab together with its students.
Taishin Shiozaki, Associate Professor
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Shiozaki Lab explores how architecture appears and how it is represented. The lab studies themes such as "Space, Language, and Memory" and "Architecture, Images, and the Gaze." It examines the language of design theory in which architects describe their own work, the referential relationships of form, scale, and color among houses, and images of urban space found in photographs and directions. The professor who leads the lab is also a practicing architect, moving between research and design practice.
Okuyama Shin'Ichi, Professor
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Okuyama Lab focuses on research and design based on architectural design theory concerning architecture and the urban environment. Its themes include discourse written by architects in magazines and elsewhere, the form of space itself, urban facades, and images of architecture and cities in the media. Because design and research proceed in parallel, the lab looks for members who proactively propose their own ideas and have the insight to look ahead to the prospects of the project team. Several design projects and research activities are always underway at once, and the conceptual ability of members, mainly graduate students and research students, supports the lab's activities.
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