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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.
Koshiro Nishimura, Professor
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Nishimura Lab studies how to make buildings more earthquake-resistant, focusing mainly on reinforced concrete structures. Its methods include structural experiments, analysis using the finite element method (FEM), and structural health monitoring. The lab aims for structures that meet increasingly diverse demands, such as not only protecting lives in an earthquake but also allowing a building to remain in use afterward. It proposes new structural systems and highly accurate methods for evaluating structural performance.
Naoko Saio, Professor
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The Saio Lab works on architectural planning, community facility planning, and urban and rural planning. Its themes include elementary schools and local communities, university campuses and urban regeneration, and urban areas and farming, mountain, and fishing village areas. The lab follows how these pairs push against each other, or cooperate and collaborate to create synergy. Rather than thinking only at a desk, the lab carries out its research based on fieldwork at the sites themselves.
Hisato Hotta, Professor
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The Hotta Lab's theme is to investigate the true nature of concrete structures through precise scaled-model experiments. Within architectural structural engineering, the lab works on concrete-based composite structures and seismic structures. It carries out precise experiments on models that are scaled-down versions of real structures, and verifies how the frames of concrete buildings behave.
Yasuhito Fujita, Associate Professor
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The Fujita Lab is an architectural history lab established in 2015. It examines the meaning and formation of historic buildings and urban environments. The professor specializes in medieval church architecture of the Caucasus region, centered on Armenia and Georgia. Using this as a base, the lab has broadened its research to the architectural and urban history of modern Japan and Asia, and to the preservation and reuse of historic townscapes. Students are expected to think of their research themes on their own initiative and find them themselves, and the lab turns away no theme as long as it falls within the framework of architectural and urban history.
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