The purpose of this research is to understand the status of provision of barrier-free information at accommodation facilities and the actual state of barrier-free guest rooms, and to clarify issues. To this end, we obtained and analyzed information from official websites and travel search sites.

The results indicate that only 25% of hotels explicitly mention the availability of barrier-free guest rooms on their websites, with a significant number failing to provide adequate information about accessibility. Furthermore, there was a tendency for the area of barrier-free guest rooms to be on average 7 square meters larger than twin rooms.

In this study, we conducted an observational survey of symbiotic care facilities with different business forms, concurrent businesses, user attributes, and architectural forms to understand the interaction patterns of users and to capture the various forms of involvement. Focusing on the spatial configuration and user attributes, we captured relationships that transcend the content of activities and attributes based on the type of stay and the type of interaction, compared them cross-sectionally, clarified the relationship between the type of stay of users and the spatial configuration of the facility, and obtained architectural planning knowledge for symbiotic care facilities.

Zoos design tour routes to enhance visitors’ learning experience about animals, but some visitors deviate from these routes. This study analyzed Bluetooth data to clarify the relationship between visitors’ route choices and the suggested tour routes. Factors influencing route choice were also identified. Results revealed that frequent visitors often shorten their routes, while infrequent visitors use tall exhibits as landmarks. Visitors are more likely to walk toward areas with visible tall exhibits, animal houses, exhibition facilities, clear park roads, and gentle slopes. These findings provide insights for optimizing zoo layouts to cater to different visitor behaviors.

Architect Osamu Ishii has left various discourses on housing complexes. Based on these discourses, we believe that Mr. Ishii, when designing the housing complex, had in mind that the residents would live in the complex long-term. The purpose of this research is to analyze and clarify from multiple perspectives the factors that made Domus Kori a long-term residence as a rental housing complex and the factors that made this living environment possible. Domus Kori is still being used by its residents in a variety of ways today, thanks to its landholding structure and spatial configuration designed for long-term residence.

This is a study of the spatial composition of room-groups and free-space in seven examples of integrated junior and senior high schools.

1. The examples were divided into two size groups according to the total floor area per home-classroom, group S (300sqm/homeroom) and group L (640sqm/homeroom).

2. The rates of learning-space and common-space vary according to size, the sum of the rates of these groups is constant. Accordingly, the spatial composition rate of free-space group is almost constant at around 30%.

3. The rates of the types of free-space were found to show the space characteristics of each example.

The present study focuses on the analysis of the nationwide distribution and trends of coastal religious facilities in Japan. These locations were classified according to five types of coastal line shapes, three types of planar locations, six types of cross-sectional shapes, six types of cross-sectional positions, and thirteen types of surrounding environments. The distribution trends were identified for each major sea area. Additionally, all combinations of location classifications were systematized, revealing a total of 578 possible combinations. As a result, it is clear that many of the facilities are located close to proximity to living area with no topography.

This study examines the hinterland of the settlement in Kirikiri, Otsuchi-cho, Iwate Prefecture, a Tsunami-Prone Community. The aim is to elucidate the process of long-term changes in the hinterland using land ownership data. The findings indicate that large-scale landowners residing near the backlands and other landowners living in the lowlands and near the coast exhibited distinct behaviors during the process of residential land conversion in the village’s backlands since the 1960s. Additionally, the relationship between landowner attributes and post-disaster housing reconstruction is analyzed.

In this paper, I clarified the consciousness structure regarding Terminal Care of village(TC) of the Residents of the marginal village(Rm) and the urban areas(Ru), who are the decision-making entities when implementing TC. The results are summarized as follows.

1.It was assumed that Place Attachment(PA) and Awareness of Concern(AC) had a correlation with awareness of the Necessity of TC(NTC).

2.In Rm, the group of those who wish to relocate, and in Ru, the group that had indirect contact with marginal villages may improve NTC through formation of PA or AC.

3.NTC is proportional to the desire to participate in TC-related activities.

Water management program can serve not only as a safeguard for cities against water-related disasters, but also as a catalyst for planning and designing urban spaces where various physical elements coexist. In this paper, we examine the planning process that integrates water management program and district planning, using the “Dike Relocation Lent” project from the Room for the River initiative as a case study. Our findings reveal that this process has involved iterative revisions of the "program," which is numerical or normative prerequisite in urban planning or river management, based on the outcome of “design” and “vision” for the space.

This study clarified the lifestyles and activities of dual habitation residents who work mainly in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and live in the countryside, in this case, Yuzawa City. First, lifestyle preferences were categorized into six groups through interviews on reasons and the process of dual-habitation. Then, differences in preferred living environment and the variety of activities of each group were clarified by analyzing changes in leisure activities before and after dual habitation. From the above, it is clarified that living environment and activities differ according to the type of community to which they belong.

The purpose of this study was to conduct a quantitative analysis of people’s activities outside their homes and their awareness of urban farms, and to discuss the demand for and future issues related to urban farms. The research method was a web-based questionnaire survey targeting residents of Sumida-ku, Tokyo. The results of this study can be summarized into the following three main points: 1) clarification of the status of out-of-home activities based on respondents’ characteristics, 2) clarification of the demand for urban farms, and 3) clarification of the relationship between out-of-home activities and the intention to use urban farms.

Recently, many cities have promoted the creation of “comfortable and walkable” spaces, a joint effort of the public and private sectors, by improving the attractiveness of downtown areas. However, quantitative studies focusing on walkability, such as people’s route selection and circulation behavior, have not been widely conducted in Japan. Therefore, this study aims to propose methods of simulating people’s circulation behavior as a study method for creating walkable spaces, and to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods. The results suggest that the methods proposed in this study can be a tool to provide evidence for the creation of walkable neighborhoods.

These days, Area-based management activity is getting attention. To sustain the activity, obtaining stronger confidence from stakeholders is crucial and then performance measurement is required. In this research, we conducted the questionnaire, literature, and interview research to understand the actual condition of performance measurement and threshold of consensus building of British and Irish BIDs. As a result, we found the combination of KPIs frequently used. Moreover, we found BIDs are conducting business survey with low response rate. Finally, we concluded the standard of decision-making process is relatively low by comparing the response rate with the rate stated on the BID legislation.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been promoting an attractive cityscape through the “Urban Area Reorganisation and Town Development System”. The West side of the Shimbashi Station area, including the area covered by this system, is a unique urban area with a high concentration of multi-tenanted buildings and narrow streets. This study constructs a tenant occurrence probability model in the area. The result showed that the effect of area characteristics on the probability of tenant occurrence varies due to differences in the needs of the regional characteristics, such as the distance from the station and the building area, sought by tenants.

The Civic Green Space Scheme preserves privately owned green spaces through contracts with landowners, but sustainability concerns arise after contracts end. Conversion to public ownership is an option but incurs acquisition and maintenance costs.

This study explores this conversion process, impacts, and challenges through interviews with local governments and volunteer organizations.

Findings indicate inconsistent maintenance of spaces and varying potential uses after conversion. Since the cost of maintenance for public lands differs greatly depending on this spatial use image, it is desirable to consider in advance which civic green spaces are suitable for conversion to public lands, based on feasibility.

The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between activities, needs, and components of a place, based on the results of a participatory workshop. The following were clarified. 1) Daily activities are required in the target areas, and the characteristics of each area were confirmed. 2) Through analysis using network graphs, participants’ needs were organized and diversified. We identified many ideas and related needs. 3) By comparing the quantitative analysis results with the contents of the places, we understood the relationship between activities, needs, places, and the components, which cannot be understood from the components alone.

In the construction industry, a number of employees leave their jobs even though they have higher work-engagement. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that lead to employee turnover and then to identify an approach of retention management on talent that can reduce turnover in general contractors. The authors partially found that employees choose to leave their jobs because the positive characteristics of manufacturing are not fulfilled due to the lack of manufacturing emergence. To reduce turnover, it is effective for the organization to design relationships with others based on the emergence of construction.

When the Daigakuryo, where the Confucian ceremony of Sekiten was held, was destroyed in the Great Fire of Angen, the venue was moved to the Dajokancyo. Naturally, the spatial characteristics and composition differ between the Daigakuryo, a place of learning, and the Dajokancyo, a ceremonial venue for governmental rituals. This study examines the changes in the content of the Sekiten ceremony resulting from this spatial transition and clarifies the architectural space of the Dajokancyo by analyzing the movement patterns of the individuals involved in the Sekiten ritual.

This paper demonstrates the following points:

1. The word and concept of Daikokubashira spread throughout Japan in the 18th century.

2. In the 18th century, various theories were born about the origin of the word Daikokubashira. It was seen as a building material that inherited ancient traditions, and this view continued for some time into modern times.

3. Starting with the research of Kenji ISHIHARA in 1932, the view of the Daikokubashira was revised, and it came to be thought of as a material that first appeared in the Edo period.

The purpose of this study was to clarify the regional characteristics of Okura-syo which were used for Kaimai in a port built on an estuary of the Shinano River. The nature of site, spatial structures and storehouse of the Sekiya-Okura-syo and the Niigata-Okura-syo owned by the Nagaoka Domain were clarified. Sekiya-Okura-syo and Nuttari-Okura-syo in countryside had same nature. The room’s floor space of Niigata-Okura-syo in the urban area was different from one of the “Nihonkai Type” of Tohoku Region. The regional characteristics were formed by next points. Condition of Environment peculiar to this area: Kumi-led or Merchant-led.

This study clarifies the process by which scientific air defense research was conducted by architectural researchers and the results were developed into policy. First, with the emergence of the air raid threat, architectural researchers did not leave the task to the military, but took it up as their own. Then, they applied their architectural expertise to develop theoretical and empirical approaches to air defense studies with public funding and the cooperation of the military. Architectural researchers were also active in the government and the military, functioning as the driving force behind the smooth implementation of research findings into policy.

This paper aims to clarify the characteristics of buildings and locations associated with Kyoto hand-painted Yuzen workshops. Through field surveys and analysis of 72 workshops, the following results were obtained. The workshops exhibit a range of building types, from traditional Machiya to modern structures, with a predominant combination of workplace and residence within small-scale buildings, except for some occupational workshops. The diversity in building types increased after 1960. Initially located in the old town in 1945, the workshops progressively expanded beyond this area. The spatial distribution of these workshops was primarily influenced by the transportation time between workshops.

This study attempts to clarify some aspects of how Western city-building techniques were accepted in prewar Japan by clarifying the citation methods used in R. Unwin-related articles published in the Journal TOSHI KŌRON. In order to clarify the citation method, this study attempted to analyze the article by focusing on the following four points: 1. the type of source, 2. the mention of the source in the article, and 3. whether or not there are excerpts of discourse from the source material in the article and 4. the content of the article.