Research Laboratories
and Subjects

• Himoto Laboratory
  

  Designing disaster-resilient built environment

  Methodologies to design resilient built environment by integrating new analytical technologies with our core knowledge of fire safety engineering.
  • Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Planning
  • Risk-based Engineering
  • Fire Safety Engineering
  Detailed Site
• Nakano Laboratory
  

  Modeling soil-structure systems during earthquakes

  Nakano Laboratory aims to make building safer by understanding phenomena and improving models related to ground and foundations during earthquakes.
  • Building Structure
  • Earthquake Engineeing
  • Building Foundation
  Detailed Site
• Fuminori Nousaku Laboratory
  

  Architecture as an ecological knot

  Human activity is disrupting the global environment's balance. We seek an ecological vision for architecture, exploring actor-network oriented design.
  • Architectural Design
  • Actor-Network Oriented Design
  • Architectural Ethnography
  • Urban Ecology
  Detailed Site
• Mitsui Laboratory
  

  Member × Optimization = Eco-friendly Structure

  We conduct research on the properties of steel materials and the evaluation of the structural performance of members and joints. Our goal is to achieve environmentally friendly structural design through the optimization of member design.
  • Structural engineering
  • Thin-walled steel member
  • Applied mecahnics
  • Environmentally-friendly structural design
  Detailed Site
• TERAZAWA Lab.
  

  Advanced computational structural design

  My research motivation is to make structural design of "shell and spatial structures" and "tall buildings" more creative by digital tools.
  • Shell and Spatial structure
  • Tall building
  • Seismic design optimization
  • Steel structure
  Detailed Site
• Ryo Murata Laboratory
  

  Architectural and urban design strategies for responding to the environment

  By considering the design of architecture and urban from the relationship between the various historical and geographical context, we are conducting research and design which was the subject to reveal the substantive mechanism of excellent architecture and the environment .
  • Environmental architecture
  • Passive solar design
  • Architectural design
  • Architectural planning
  Detailed Site
• Yamazaki Laboratory
  

  Architectural history learn from extant buildings

  • Modern Japanese style building
  • Field survey of historic buildings
  • Architectural archives
  • Architectural relationship between Edo and Tokyo
  Detailed Site
• Yokoyama Laboratory
  

  Discover safety & livability for the human society

  Strategically focused in the most suitable and quantitative figures of architecture about design, plan and construct based on the demanded specifics.
  • Evaluation of performance
  • Safety
  • Comfortability
  • Construction quality
  Detailed Site
• Ikarashi Laboratory
  

  Clarify the buckling behavior of steel structure

  We are studying for the establishment of the buckling design method by making clear the buckling behavior of steel structural members and plates.
  • Structural engineering
  • Steel structure
  • Buckling
  • Thin plate
  Detailed Site
• Takuya Oki Laboratory
  

  Architectural Planning Using Big Data and AI

  We are developing new architectural planning methods to acquire knowledge from various big data (including image, text, human flow, gaze) using AI.
  • Architectural planning
  • Urban analysis
  • Big data
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  Detailed Site
• Hiraga Laboratory

  

  Pass on the heritage buildings to the future

  We are studying about the policy and system of the cultural heritage conservation, and the adaptive reuse of historical buildings.

  • Cultural heritage studies
  • Adaptive reuse of historical buildings
  • History of Japan's modern architecture
• Yoshihiro Yamazaki Laboratory
  

  Create resilient wooden buildings

  We research on design methods to create highly safe wooden buildings to protect people's livelihood and society in the event of a disaster.
  • Building structure
  • Timber structure
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Structural safety
  Detailed Site
• Ishihara Laboratory
  

  Toward sustainable and resilient buildings

  We will build an academic and technical foundation to realize better building structures and nonstructural components against natural disasters.
  • Structural engineering
  • Disaster mitigation
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Building nonstructural components
  Detailed Site
• Fukuda Laboratory

  

  For daily safe & comfortableness of building users

  Studying evaluation methods of daily safety and comfortableness from the perspective of building users in order to design safe and comfortable space.

  • Evaluation of performance
  • Safety
  • Comfortablility
  • Daily disaster
• Shiozaki Laboratory
  

  Architectural representation and appearance

  • Architectural design, form and scale
  • Architectural terminology, naming of space, analogy
  • Image of architecture and city
  • Architecture and media
  Detailed Site
• Nishimura Laboratory
  

  Challenge of new system of building structure

  In order to answer various requirements of structural performance, we propose new structural systems and evaluation methods of high accuracy.
  • Reinforced concrete structures
  • Concrete composite structures
  • Seismic engineering
  • Disaster mitigation
  Detailed Site
• Saio Laboratory
  

  Fieldwork Study based on Architechtural and Urban Planning

  "School and Community", "University campus and Urban re-generation", and "Urban and Rural area"...e.t.c. Our studies forcus on the collaboration and synergy through various fieldworks.
  • Architectural planning
  • School and campus planning
  • Urban planning
  • Rural planning
  Detailed Site
• Muromachi Laboratory
  

  Better urban environment by understanding humans

  • Urban planning
  • Urban transportation planning
  • Transport and the environment
  Detailed Site
• Morikawa Laboratory

  

  Knowledge on Earthquake and Disaster Mitigation

  • Earthquake engineering
  • Engineering seismology
  • Stochastic process
  • Education for disaster mitigation
• Sanada Laboratory
  

  Rural Cultural Landscape and Quality of Life

  Rural landscape is the figure of life, so designing our life is important for landscape. We are searching a happy relationship between landscapes and our life.
  • History of park system
  • Rural landscape
  Detailed Site
• Hotta Laboratory

  

  Explicate nature of concrete composite structures

  • Structural engineering
  • Concrete composite structures
  • Earthquake-resistant structures
• Nasu Laboratory

  

  Design for Pleasant Built Environment

  We are studying about design of built environment in diversity of contexts, by surveying on scheme, design process and form of architecture and spatial aspect of human behavior.

  • Architectural desgin
  • Architectural planning
  • Dwelling culture and built environment
  • Town scape design
• Foujita Laboratory
  

  Carving out hidden history in built environment

  Foujita Lab. Is studying on architectural and urban history. I hope we find new visions to understand architecture and cities.
  • Architectural history
  • Urban history
  • Conservation of historical buildings and townscape
  Detailed Site
• Haruyuki Fujii Laboratory
  

  Design of Intellect as One's Own Affairs

  Pursueing Study the Methodology of Cultivating Design Mind.
  • Theories in architectural planning
  • Design science
  • Methodologies in studies with first person's view
  • Design computing
  Detailed Site
• Yuasa Laboratory

  

  Building services and energy for good environment

  We are working on energy conservation of building services, human consciousness and action for building and urban environment.

  • Building services
  • Environmental engineering
  • Energy consumption
  • Energy conservation
• Dohi Laboratory
  

  Create the urban ecological democracy.

  • Community design
  • Landscape architecture
  • Participatory design
  • Homelessness
  Detailed Site
• Shuji Tamura Laboratory
  

  Learn Soil, Foundation, Reduce Sorrow in Major EQs Know Soil, learn Foundations and Protect People from Major Earthquakes

  All buildings are constructed on ground. Tamura lab is one of the few laboratories in Japan specializing in soils and building foundation.
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Pile Foundation
  • Shallow Foundation
  • Soil Liquefaction
  Detailed Site
• Soeda Laboratory
  

  Creating comfortable urban environment

  • Environmental psychology
  • Architectural planning
  • Architectural ergonomics
  Detailed Site
• Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory
  

  Epicenter of Behaviorolgical Turn in Architecture

  Better interrelatinship between architectural composition, behavior of nature and people, and social institutional framwork is searched through study and practice of architectural design.
  • Composition
  • Behavior
  • Nature
  • Social institution
  Detailed Site
• Toru Takeuchi Laboratory
  

  Targeting Tough and Elegant Structures

  We recently focus on steel structure, response controlled structure and structural design, targeting to realize tough and eleganth structures.
  • Structural design
  • Steel structure
  • Spatial structure
  • Response control structure
  Detailed Site
• Osaragi Laboratory
  

  Find out laws hidden in space and human behavior !

  We are trying to clarify the relationships between environmental elements and human behavior or evaluation in architecture and urban space.
  • Architectural planning
  • Urban analysis and planning
  • Disaster mitigation planning
  • Spatial information science
  Detailed Site
• Asawa Laboratory
  

  Insight into Urban Environment through Visualization

  We contribute to environmentally friendly architectural and urban designs through visualization techniques using remote sensing and simulation.
  • Urban and built environmental engineering
  • Thermal environment
  • Remote sensing
  • Urban greening
  Detailed Site
• Mano Laboratory
  

  Community design in practice：for urban creativity

  • Urban planing and design
  • Community design
  • Urban regeneration and local revitalization
  • Reconstruction planning for earthquake disaster
  Detailed Site
• Matsuoka Laboratory
  

  Geoinformatics for disaster management

  Enhancement of the capabilities to disaster preparedness and response by integrating earthquake engineering, remote sensing and geoinformatics.
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Geoinformatics
  • Remote sensing
  • Geographic information system
  Detailed Site
• Yamanaka Laborary
  

  Ground shaking science for secure society

  Our study areas are engineering science on ground shaking and technology of near-surface geophysical exploration for earhtuqauke disaster mitigation.
  • Strong motion seismology
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Exploration geophysics
  • Seismic wave simulation
  Detailed Site
• Sakata Laboratory
  

  Ways to enhance the seismic performance of buildings

  Not only protecting the occupants' life safety under very rare and major earthquakes but controlling damages on buildings for quick recovery.
  • Concrete structure
  • Timber structure
  • Passive control structure
  • Seismic design
  Detailed Site
• Sato Daiki Laboratory
  

  Construction of safety and security buildings to earthquake and wind

  Construction of safety and security buildings to earthquake and wind
  • Response control building
  • Seismically isolated building
  • Long period ground motion
  • High-rise building
  Detailed Site
• Kagi Laboratory
  

  Create confort indoor environment in building

  It is important for safty, healthy and confort to maintain indoor environment. We investigate the indoor air quality and create better environment.
  • Built environment
  • Indoor air quality
  • Air pollution
  • Environmental design
  Detailed Site
• Kishiki Laboratry
  

  Post-Earthquake Damage Evaluation & Rehabilitation

  Our research group aim to establish a visible damage index for quick damage estimation of steel structures and to develop a seismic repairing method.
  • Base-isolation and passive control structures
  • Seismic retrofit for existing buildings
  • Post-earthquake damage evaluation and rehabilitation
  Detailed Site
• Kono Laboratory
  

  From theory to practice

  The goal is to contribute to the society by making structures safe against various disturbances such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and wind.
  • Seismic engineering
  • Reinforced concrete structures
  • Prestressed concrete structures
  • Disaster mitigation
  Detailed Site
• Okuyama Laboratory
  

  How can we make a concept of the design with the theory of architecture?

  The main major of our laboratory is the architectural design, and we have always put a significance of making the research theme and design concept through discussion.
  • Words of architecture
  • Form and shape of the space of architecture
  • Façade of town scape
  • Architecture in media
  Detailed Site