The movement to provide government subsidies to public housing arose in Great Britain in the early 20th century. Through this movement, residential and living environments were improved. This study examines the details of these improvements in provisions of Housing Acts and in Housing Estates around WWI. The results were as follows:

- Government’s subsidies or loans, dwelling units density, relaxation of bye-law were decided in provisions of Housing Acts.

- On living conditions, some improvements were realized in Housing estates during WWI, and many other improvement points suggested in Tudor Walters Report were realized in Housing Estates after WWI.

This study aims to clarify the supply process in the status of each elementary school district with schoolchild care facilities, in the Ube and Matsue Cities. Since the latter half of the 1970s, Ube City has been advancing the facility supply, and Matsue City has been doing so since the early 1990s, reaching a facility establishment rate of 200% per elementary school district by around 2010. The facilities of the two cities satisfy the criteria for the number of people and area as a city-wide average, however, the improvement of some overcrowded facilities is an issue.

In Amami-Oshima, folk houses characterized by “HIKIMUN construction” have remained. This study aims to clarify the regional characteristics of HIKIMUN construction systems and its determining factors. HIKIMUN construction is different from other wooden construction systems of the Japanese main island. Big beams which are dropped into primary posts are called “HIKIMUN”.

This study shows 10 HIKIMUN folk houses in mountainous, plains, and island areas. According to these survey results, this identified four types of HIKIMUN construction systems, two types of HIKIMUN joints, and three types of floor level joints. The study also clarifies the regional characteristics for each type.

The paper aims to clarify the value of MR as a tool for presenting information and promoting dialogue in the design process. First, we constructed an MR-based information presentation tool, which was exhibited in the event space. After that, we conducted user observation and analyzed the scenes. The effectiveness of MR was recognized as a tool to induce users to view information in a way that the information presenters intended through experiential sequences, and to make it easier for users of the tool to clarify the main and sub-information through looping in the experience.

In this study, we studied the actual conditions of fishery activities of “out-of-region commutation fishermen” who live outside of fishing villages and engage in fishing while commuting to the fishing villages due to the damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The reason for moving out of the area was the living environment which revealed the issues that the fishing villages had been facing before the earthquake. Even the out-of-region commutation fishermen could generate a certain amount of sales and perform regular fishery tasks, indicating that the out-of-region commuting fishermen were able to balance fishing and quality of life.

This study identifies the problems of the current evacuation system and the possibility using Mizuka in flood-prone area. Concretely, the following three categories of items were reviewed. (1) whether residents followed a way of life that required them to evacuate to Mizuka, (2) whether the depth of water has increased compared to the past and whether Mizuka can be utilised according to the old standards applied during flooding events, and (3) whether there are still obstacles to wide-area evacuation in villages and whether evacuation shelters in the town need to be strengthened.

COVID-19 pandemic has been significant impacts on not only infection but also subjective feelings of health. This study aims to clarify the changes in usages of third place and subjective feelings of health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The method was a web questionnaire in Osaka Prefecture on January 12 and 13 2021, during the third wave of the pandemic. This study concluded that the importance of third places such as “cafes and fast food shops,” “large commercial facilities,” libraries”, and “movie theaters” was clarified from the usages of third places and changes in subjective feelings of health.

In this study, we investigated the changes in land use before and after the land readjustment project and its background, as well as the characteristics of vacant land in the Akahama district of Otsuchi Town, which was a fishing village. The purpose is to clarify the factors that caused low- and unused land due to the lack of progress in building reconstruction within the project area and to consider preventive measures. Finally, we pointed out the necessity and importance of estimation of the future land use situation by carefully reading district characteristics in the future project.

This study asked managers of residential-type elderly facilities to respond to a questionnaire survey regarding the evacuation in West Japan during the Heavy Rain Event of July 2018. By analyzing the empirical data such as the evacuation time of facilities by transport devices, the survey found out the determinants of the evacuation decisions and the issues in the evacuation of the elderly facilities. Besides, our case study offers empirically rich details on the evacuation experiences at elderly facilities. Through context-specific analyses, this study suggests that strong countermeasures are required to help the elders to evacuate in times of floods.

London Olympic Games 2012 had a vision broadcasting cityscape image as a backdrop of the worldwide sports event. The games were also expected roles not only of urban development but also city-promotion. Greenwich Park Equestrian venue, and Horse Guards Parade Beach Volleyball venue broadcasting the cityscape, are selected as this research samples. To plan and implement of these venues, what kind of roles were played between stakeholders? How were their relationship built and developed? The research object is to reveal the process from planning to implementation and relationship between stakeholders by documents and drawings and the interviews related venues.

In the core city where the existing urban area, the center of regional cities, has disaster risk, flexible residential guidance measures are necessary. Its place should be mainly for commercial and tourist purposes with medium- and high-rise residential buildings. On the other hand, it is possible to meet various demands by including inland low-density residential areas with high location safety and district centers into the residential promotion area. In particular, when an area with high location safety is an urban area linked to other municipalities, it is possible to the residential induction measures from a wide-area perspective.

We analyzed a questionnaire survey of urban detached house residents who had remodeled their houses, and obtained knowledge for housing policies on housing management. 1) Mechanisms for evaluating the effectiveness of performance improvement and good management conditions. There are many residents with low management awareness, but those with high awareness are in a virtuous cycle. 2) Building diagnosis at 30 years old. There are different issues after 30 years than before, and individual support is needed. 3) Certification and operation of experts in the management of detached houses, including relationships with remodeling contractors.

This article considered the domestic production and consumption of nails in the prewar period after the middle of the Meiji era. The following points will be clarified.

The consumption of nails in modern times can be calculated by adding the import amount to the domestic production of nails and subtracting the export amount from this. Domestic consumption, which was 107,000 barrels in 1884, has been increasing and decreasing since then, reaching 2.522 million barrels in 1940, the peak of the prewar period. This is 23.6 times the consumption in 1884.

The review deals with the term “absolute architecture” of Pier Vittorio Aureli, detecting its references from Gianugo Polesello, Aldo Rossi and Manfredo Tafuri. In the book published in 2011, Aureli associates “an absolute architecture” with solidness and resoluteness of its geometrical form as island not only within but also against sea of urbanization as the expansive logic of economy. Indeed, Polesello, who was Aureli’s teacher in IUAV, remarked “L’architettura ab-soluta” (Ab-solute Architecture) as architecture “separated from” or “free”, implying the urban development as its political moment, on which Rossi and Tafuri had put importance.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify Yoshiro Taniguchi (1904-1979)’s “Imitation” in his descriptions. Taniguchi doubts Imitation of Greek architecture such as a direct copy and he was suspicious of devoting himself to the inheritance of traditional forms. “Imitation” is considered as a negative attitude that is buried in a historical heritage, finds no new sense of form or new value, is exclusive in an international sense. By paying attention to “Imitation”, the transition was drawn out in thought and architectural design on the meaning of “Imitation” and his life scale.

The concept of change through time due to manipulation with capsules is topical for capsule architecture. By these means the buildings can, theoretically, indefinitely prolong their lifespan. However, the rare built cases show drawbacks of this concept, and new ways of actual renovations are implemented. Such renovation cases show the peculiar approach how to repair the buildings of this typology. Therefore this paper is aimed to extract the main features of the concept of change and actual renovation techniques by grouping several ideas regarding the concept of change and new renovation approaches applicable for the typology of capsule architecture.

It can be presumed from the differentiation of coloring and lines on sketches by Kazuo Shinohara that emphasized figures were important for him to create shapes.

In this paper, firstly, the extracted emphasized figures from sketches of 8 residential works are classified by dents of the figure to clarify the complexity and the similarity. In this classification, the emphasized figures are also examined for concave angles, convex angles, and linearly symmetry. Secondly, in order to clarify autonomy of the emphasized figures, the degrees of restriction are analyzed by the ratio of restricted sides to total sides of each figure.

In this study, we focused on contents described in the ‘Ansei period Komagome Fuji Shrine area map and illustration'. We verified the contents of the ‘Ansei period map’ and considered the aspects of gardeners’ farmland in this area. Consequently, the following findings were obtained.

・Most of the farmers in this area were also works as gardeners.

・A large number of farmers surname ‘Takagi', 'Utsumi’ and ‘Shimizu’ already owned the lands in several distant places.

・From the address on the 1912 land registration map, many locations were matched the houses on the Ansei period map.

This study aimed to estimate human willingness to visit cityscape images via artificial intelligence (AI) using multimodal deep learning. In this study, gaze information was acquired through subject experiments using a measurement device. We added gaze information when humans felt motivated to visit the cityscape image, and confirmed whether the estimation accuracy of AI would improve. We also created an AI model that generated gaze-view images, and used it for multimodal deep learning. We used pix2pix to generate the images. Finally, we verified the accuracy of the proposed multimodal deep learning approach, when the generated pseudo-gaze image was attached.

The purpose of this study is to analyze of the occurrence of evacuation support for wheelchair users in order to enable more efficient wheelchair evacuation. A tsunami evacuation drill has been conducted for residents in Nakatosa Town, Kochi Prefecture, where tsunamis are expected due to the Nankai earthquake. In the evacuation drill, we measured the speed of evacuation of vulnerable people and observed behavior of the residents who supported their evacuation. As a result, factors to be reflected in evacuation drill and support behavior types for wheelchair evacuation were derived.