This paper delves into the operations of the Hirao town social welfare council, which managed a group home and day care facilities in collaboration with local governments and residents. It also explores their initiatives toward centralizing these services in the central area after 2011. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the prerequisites and effects associated with the development, relocation, and consolidation of these facilities, as led by the social welfare council. As a result of this relocation and consolidation, it was observed that there were substantial benefits, including improved division of functions and enhanced rationalization of operations.

Sugaya Tatara Sannai Ironmaking Village is known as the last remaining example of Sannai, a complex where traditional Tatara ironmaking has been practiced. The aim of this article is to reveal its spatial theory by comparing the descriptions of ‘’Tetsuzan Hitsuyo Kiji’, a technical book written in the Edo period, ‘Sugaya Tatara Sannai Ezu’, a historical map drawn in the Meiji period, and its actual landscape. The analysis focuses on three aspects: siting, spatial compositions and orientations. In conclusion, the principal is structured by functional mechanism centred on Takadono supported by an abstract concept built up on animistic beliefs.

In order to examine the influence of local housing/street form on children's place attachment, we compared urban established residential areas and urban planned stacked housing complexes in terms of space/outdoor play/social relationship capital.

As a result, it was inferred that the difference in circulation by the type of housing/street has an effect on outdoor play and social capital, and that the factors that foster place attachment can be divided into group-oriented and individual-oriented factors.

This research explores the formation, location characteristics, and interplay between public Ethiopian university campuses and their hosting city. Part two focuses on the role of the In-between spaces in shaping interactions. This study categorizes these spaces by analyzing their spatial characteristics and utilization patterns. The analysis focuses on spatial elements such as urban streets, entrances, and boundary walls, emphasizing their roles in campus identity and connectivity. As a result, six types of In-between spaces were identified, and their utilization patterns were categorized as interactive and non-interactive for their opportunities and challenges in design-making decisions on Security-oriented campuses.

We conducted all-inclusive surveys of assembly facilities in temporary housing estates that had been built after the Kumamoto earthquake, and we aimed to determine the impact of presence or absence of assembly facilities development.

As a result, in temporary housing estates where assembly facilities have been established, neighborhood associations play important roles in the maintenance and so on, but sometimes their burden is uneven, leading to senses of unfairness in the use of facilities.

In small-scale temporary housing estates, we found that there were little need for residents to use the facilities as places to meet in their daily lives.

The role of town development organizations is expanding through town development planning by local governments that utilize the culture of historical central area and its remains. Yasugi, Yonago and Matsue cities, which are aiming to utilize castle ruins and developing the historical connections, have established the castle maintenance plans and are providing support to organizations. In the comprehensive plans of the each cities, indicators related to castles and attached facilities are set as one of the targets, and castle ruins and organizations play an important role.

Public-private partnership initiatives that support organizations include subsidizing costs, dispatching staff, and providing bases.

The economic census, which is an official statistic, may be used in urban analysis. On the other hand, private gourmet information websites can be used to obtain pinpoint rich restaurant information. However, not all restaurants are necessarily listed on gourmet information sites. Therefore, this study clarified the spatial characteristics of the economic census and gourmet information websites by comparing them spatially. Furthermore, we present a case study of its application to urban analysis and clarify its usefulness.

This study is to quantify the inequity of secondary transportation at regional airports between general passengers and wheelchair users from the perspective of ensuring mobility for people with mobility constraints. A comparison was made between general passengers and wheelchair users at 26 regional airports in terms of travel time, fare, and number of rides from the airport to the destination. The generalized cost is more than twice as much for wheelchair users than for general passengers, which is about 40% in total. This study clearly shows that there are some social barriers to mobility inequalities for wheelchair users.

In this study, the authors create a system that enables autonomous mobile robots to operate in construction sites, where it is considered difficult to apply autonomous mobile robots due to the highly changing environment. In this system, robots acquire information of runnable areas by running directly, and then share the information with other robots immediately. This allows the autonomous mobile robot to run stably in a changing environment. The results of an experiment with simulated on-site application showed that the system allowed autonomous mobile robots to reach their destinations securely.

This study has focused on the building renovations carried out at the Miyoshi residence during Shogun Ashikaga’s visit and, through an analysis of these renovations, we have elucidated their intentions. As a result, the following points have been revealed:

1) During this process, particular emphasis was placed on the facade design;

2) The purpose of the renovations at the Miyoshi residence was to elevate it from a vassal-class residence to a lord-class residence ;

3) This facade design served as a significant architectural expression of social status within the samurai residences of Kyoto under the Ashikaga Shogunate regime.

This range of articles investigates the history, characteristics, and especially the relatedness between the architecture and the diplomatic policy before the World War II in Japan.

In this first part, the aim is to connect the history of Japanese diplomatic architectures with the political situation in the south of Manchuria, by analyzing the Japanese diplomatic architectures in the 20^th century in Manchuria as objects, including the first and second consulate in Andong, the consulates in Fengtian, Changchun, Niuzhuang, Tieling, Liaoyang.

In a “Fushin-Meisai-Cho,” a record of construction detail statement, of 1881, there are description of both Japanese and Western nails in “Kuginobu,” the Nail Section, This article examined Kuginobu and following points are clarified.

In Kuginobu, the price ratio of Japanese and Western nails was approximately 6:4. However, since Western nails were approximately 20 to 30% less expensive than Japanese nails, this does not indicate that they were used together. The combined used weight ratio of Japanese nails and Western nails in Kuginobu was approximately 4:6, and Western nails accounted for more than 80% of short nails.

In this paper, while using new historical materials, I have uncovered overlooked facts and their relationships and reconsidered the process by which sewage septic tank technology was acquired in Japan during the early stages from the end of the Meiji era to the middle of the Taisho era As a result, I clarified the mechanisms of septic tanks that were considered incomplete at the time and the mechanisms of some ‘complete’ septic tanks made with the involvement of Japanese engineers. I also pointed out the role played by Tatsuzo Sone and Seiichiro Chujo Architects in this process.

This study aims to elucidate the module measurement of ancient architecture around Fujian Province and Guangdong Province based on the difference in eaves frame construction methods. The research reveals that the proportions of the “Cai”(dimension of bracket arms) exhibit unique characteristics specific to the Fujian and Guangdong regions, differing from those documented in Yingzao Fashi and the Huabei region. Consequently, these findings suggest that the proportions of the “Cai” in the Daibutsu-yo architecture were unlikely to have been influenced by the architecture of the Fujian and Guangdong regions.

Most of the previous studies have identified Brunelleschi's drafting method as the 3-plane method. The present author infers that his method was different from the 3-plane methods, etc. This paper is concerned with the conceivable Brunelleschi’s method. The method the author propose is a simple method that uses the ratio of the viewing distance between the object and the screen. It is not described in the previous studies. It is conceivable he discovered his method from architectural surveys. Later in the paper the rule of inverse proportion in perspective drawing is proved.

This study clarifies the transition of the characteristics of Kazuo Shinohara's residential works based on the characteristics of the main and subordinate spaces. Focusing on the form of the main and secondary spaces, a cluster analysis is conducted using the presence or absence of differences between them to grasp the characteristics of each work, and to further clarify the characteristics of each style. In addition, we will clarify the relationship between the characteristics of the floor plan and the visual characteristics of the openings, which were clarified in the previous report.

This study examines the layout of samurai residences in Odawara Castle Town during the late Okubo Period (1686-1871), and clarifies the changes and their factors by comparing with salary of retainers. Comparing the Genroku period with the Bunkyu period, it is clarified that the site space and the district of their residences were based on their salaries. The reasons for this change include disaster recovery from the Genroku Earthquake in 1703, and the removal of retainers from Edo to Odawara following the return of their Edo residences resulting from the death of two lords in 1713-1715.

The purpose of this study is to clarify certain aspects of how architectural information is communicated through videos published online, by examining the speech content of commentators in architectural explanation videos and analyzing its composition.

As a result, nine groups of explanation content were derived from the characteristics of the explanation content composition.

In the compositions of the explanation content, there is a tendency for results or thoughts to be explained at the end.