The purpose of this study is to examine the possibilities of rural landscape conservation by manpower outside the region. This paper reports on conservation and support activities of “Magaki” bamboo hedge as an element of Satoyama-Satoumi landscape in Noto region. These activities are composed of repairing bamboo hedge and studying local culture programme by university student group exchange with local residents. We need to develop sustainable systems for these activities through enhancing the support function for operation systems by local governance.

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The aim of this report is to recognize the opinion poll to the mobile shop user of Kofu town in Tottori prefecture, and aims at grasping the subject of future non-mobile consumer supported and the future directivity in an intermediate and mountainous area. Not only non-mobile consumer support but the area watched this example, and it has added value like activity or nursing parcel delivery service. Moreover, circulation of goods is secured by the “satellite system”. From a user’s opinion poll, use purposes are calculating two reasons, “shopping” and “community with people”.

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We can see a lot of vacant houses not only in country side but also in central urban area in local cities, so, “Vacant house problem” should be solved as an urban design issue. On the other side, we have a new possibility to improve living environment by utilizing vacant houses by local government or NPOs. In this paper, we report a participatory method of making community plan includes utilization of vacant houses in Tsuruoka city, Yamagata Prefecture.

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Nagoya city, as an active megalopolis, has a unique code for townscape preservation, in which four areas are designated as the preservation districts. The code itself is not a regulation with legal force. But it is a means to provide subsidies to authentic preservations and landscape enhancements. This paper aims to clarify characteristics of the code by analyzing the preservation/landscape-enhancement standards and then to review the result of the code execution based on the case study of two preservation district located in the central part of Nagoya city.

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The shopping districts in Japan has been declining rapidly due to lack of competition and multi-faceted talent.
To overcome this situation, unprecedented innovative approaches have been explored in many places.
This report clarified the effective measure and problem for performing the revitalization event of local shopping districts continuously.
In this study, we have conducted a questionnaire survey continuous a questionnaire and analysis were performed to the participant and storekeeper of the event.
Consequently, in order to carry out the revitalization of local shopping districts events continuously, the problem has become apparent becomes effective measures.

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A public housing began to be built from1958 and a total of 33 public housings were built in Sapporo city. It is the feature in Sapporo that many city area residences with a ward office were built when Sapporo city was specified in the ordinance-designated cities. Ward office has been transferred to Sapporo city in annual installments for 15 years. So far, one was dismantled, and another one has been transferred to the private sector. In suburbs, one housing complex was rebuilt and Salon for seniors was opened in the second meeting place of it. It has been expected as a new forum for exchange.

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From high growth of the Japanese economy from 1960th to 1970th, many new urban centers were developed in provincial core cities.
Also in Niigata city, two city centers has been developed since 1970th in order to expand present city . But their present state differs from their initial plans. This paper focus on the developmental processes of them and declares manly following things.
The districts of these projects has many inefficiently used area because of decline of economy.
And they accelerated decline of city center because they were continued in suburbs even after decline of city center had began.

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Recently in Japan, about 450 schools have been closed annually. The closed schools should be utilized as the social capital. The necessity of the social business (hereinafter, referred to as “SB”) has increased recently. Based on the research of this paper, in order to make SB plan utilizing closed schools successful, local governments should give the economic support to the SB business operators and also make efforts to promote the closed schools utilization actively. The SB business operators and local governments should cooperate together to promote the closed schools utilization proactively.

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With twelve patterns of parameters that are the walking speed and the number of facilities, layout of temporary evacuation shelters was optimized by the number of demand points. These simulations were case studies in ISHINOMAKI that had suffered heavy damage by the Great East Japan Earthquake. It was cleared that the influence of these parameters to the location and scale of each facilities and the process of evaluating the layout plan based on the rate of the population that can be evacuated and the construction cost were showed.

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The Matsue tradition fine sight preservation ordinance was enacted in Showa 48 in Matsue. Then, although the Matsue landscape planning was formulated in Heisei 19, if a part of tradition fine sight preservation zone is removed, sufficient scene maintenance is not performed. Therefore, after clarifying from landscape composition elements other than a building along the route and a building, and a viewpoint of color by clarifying about the scene characteristic of Matsue for the tradition fine sight preservation zone in Matsue, and the area of the circumference of it Matsue landscape planning was extracted.

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The purpose of this paper is to report the detail, the result, the assigning tasks and the evaluation on “Workshop for designing community playing cards” to promote community study in elementary school.
The conclusions are; 1) 50 pair playing cards about regional resources were designed by 50 children. The children and the elementary school teachers highly appreciated the workshop. 2) On the preliminary meeting, the planner and the elementary school teachers mainly discussed and decided. On the workshop, the university provided many students, and set up many workshop tools. 3) The each organization evaluated that they could generally work together.

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This paper describes the general outline of “Urban Design Koshien.” We discovered that respondents to our questionnaire expressed two opinions: (1) In general, most respondents were satisfied with this competition. (2) Respondents stated that they received appropriate critiques based on the variety of viewpoints expressed by jury members. We discovered an additional result of the evaluation during an interview conducted with the jury: They were impressed with the persuasiveness and completeness of the proposal. The jury was also impressed with the explanation provided that described the effects the practice exerted on the town.

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We are enduring the environmental pollution caused by radioactive substances released by the accident of the Fukushima nuclear power plant associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake. Japanese government has assigned the area where needed to survey the situation of the pollution by radioactive substances. In this research, we focused on such areas and researched the actual condition of decontamination for parks and green spaces in Tokatsu area which included Matsudo, Kashiwa and Nagareyama city. We found one local government tried risk communication but there are many matters which cannot solve only it.

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There are many participants are involved in a construction project, thus it is an important element, communication among participants in order to ensure the quality of project and to carry out project adequately. With developed social and technological improvement, in fact, communications are continuously diminished. This paper deals with the uncommunicative transfiguration problem of between participants respectively, focusing on the mid-sized construction industry, based on a case study as analyzing the transformation of a mid-sized construction company over 40 years.

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This paper aims to understand the situation of regional housing supply under globalization. The target was the CB housing supplied by the cement major company, in different regions. The field study, interviews, visiting the construction and manufacture site, collection of drawing, were conducted at Indonesia and Philippines, where the company operating. The compared items were CB unit’s dimension, manufacturing machine, structure system of the wall and the foundation. It was figured out that the company shares some information however the CB dimension, the method of forming, the structure system have some differences. These differences were decided by regional staff in response to the local housing production and construction.

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It is said that the useful life of sanitary ware or kitchen unit is not long, but legal life of those is 15 years at least and maximum is 35 years in Japan. On the other hand, the holding period of replacement parts by manufacturers is about 10 years in general. As the basis that discusses and improves the present condition, we investigated the real use years of bathroom, kitchen unites and toilet in detached houses of two suburban housing complexes of over 25 years.

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The former Asai’s main house was built about mid-19th century. This house was built using kensuu-kumiawase-banzuke. Diagonal member of mae-tyuumon at this house are with cantilever. The similar instance can be seen at the Satoh’s main house in Niigata prefecture.

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This paper clarifies the development process of Mashike-cho and examines the relationship between the development process and existing thirty-eight historical buildings in the town. Mashike-cho had prospered as a fishing village and its fundamental structure was established by the public land readjustment held in 1881 after the big fire. The Ekimaedori street since the establishment of the railway station, Suzurandori street, Ohdori street, and Kagai district(an entertainment district) became the main part of the town. Historical buildings since the Meiji and Taisho era still remain mainly in those former entertainment and shopping area. Those historical buildings can be recognized as important properties describing the historical development of Mashike-cho.

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Here we did an empirical study of the renovation design method and philosophy of Tohgo Murano, based on his drafts of the renovation work in 1980 of Yonago Public Hall built in 1958. As to the building interior, he placed top priority on the improvement of functionality required by the client. And he renovated intensively the appearance only in the back side of the building. It showed that his renovation philosophy keeps the original design in the fa ade of the building.

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This paper is a report about the actual condition of financial aid for building demolition and restoration in Fukushima prefecture after Great East Japan Earthquake. Over 10,000 buildings were demolished by public expense after this disaster. 19 buildings which had cultural value were included. This building demolition by public expense was free for general people, and architectural professionals didn’t take part in the decision process of the demolition at all. These may had become the reason which made the demolition easy to choose.

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This reports how City of Sapporo administrates the organization for the proposal system to select architects for public buildings and in which way the city requests the proposal to the participants. As the architectural department of Sapporo city has been carrying the proposal system since 2001 and devises its own methods recently, the authors regard it as a remarkable case to examine the architect selection system. While the city has made effort to develop the methods and rationalize them, the results show that the building type and the theme for the competition are the issues to be considered further.

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In this paper emergency restoration of Tokyo station (1945-1947), it’s background and building material that was used in it, are clarified. Although Tokyo station was restored in an emergent manner during 1945-1947, the architects and the engineers at that time did their best with limited resources. As its result, we could keep on using Tokyo station for about 60 years.

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BIM attracts attention as the technology of improving the productivity of the construction industry and IFC contributes to realize BIM. However, there is little information about implementation method by IFC. This report is going to clarify the implementation method of the air-conditioning and sanitary facilities element by IFC.

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We have designed a new Zen garden using the three-dimensional data of the garden stones. The site is in the precincts of temple established in 14^th century, facility to practice, not for tourism. Exclusive and expensive, constructing traditional Japanese gardens is many people think. We have reduced the construction period nearly by half without much compromise in terms of the pursuit for fine designs. 3D-information accurate enough to describe the surface texture of each stone is very helpful in both stone arrangement and overall layout of the garden. 3D-printed model is also a useful tool to share the idea intuitively among client, builder and designer.

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This paper is an educational report to facilitate richer education of building production in technical colleges and universities. The followings are shown by reviewing nine textbooks of building production and a questionnaire survey to two hundred forty two departments of architecture: firstly ninety three educational headings of building production are listed up, which are led from seven viewpoints. And three lecture types are found out, which are classified according to an amount of lecture time spent for construction management and use of existing buildings.

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From 2003, the research committee on architectural education, in Architectural Institute of Japan, has been making questionnaire surveys on the selection of career for graduates of university and of graduate schools. Based on them, this study aims to investigate the current trend of job selection among the graduates majoring in architecture. According to economic trend, the total amount of construction has been reducing largely after 90’s. But the proportion of graduates who got jobs in this industry in recent 10 years has hardly been reducing; almost 80 percent of graduates each year. It is also shown clearly the different tendency between male and female, between graduates of university and of graduate schools. This analysis provides us some indication on what ability students should acquire in university’s architectural education.

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A practical survey was performed right after big earthquake “2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake” that hit eastern area in Tohoku-district at 11 March 2011. The extent of damage to the masonry garden walls was numerically evaluated. Heavily affected area deduced by those values could be correlated with a place where the ground is not firm. Through the survey, some findings for studying how to cope with the situation in existing those walls were obtained. Several common situations are detailed and many defects due to construction error were disclosed.

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In order to clarify the damage to nonstructural elements on school buildings and gymnasiums due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, total 1560 school buildings, 1553 school gymnasiums and 100 suffered Judo and Kendo halls were investigated according to documents for disaster restoration work. In school buildings, sever damage were found on ceiling. In gymnasiums, many falls of ceiling and lighting and damage of window, interior and exterior walls were found. The damage of ceiling in both gymnasiums and Judo and Kendo halls have regional tendency and can be divided into six categories through this investigation.

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A questionnaire survey for staff whose production facilities were affected by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake was carried out to obtain basic data essential for promoting business continuity. Part II proposes a recovery function relation with time and recovery throughout the survey. Time is normalized to 1.0, and recovery is measured by operation rate. The recovery function follows the beta distribution curve reflecting the characteristics of actual recovery of many production facilities. Since the recovery function differs according to seismic intensity, beta distribution parameters depending on PGA(peak ground acceleration) and PGV(peak ground velocity) are also proposed.

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This paper introduces a pilot program of disaster reconstruction education that was conducted in the tsunami-affected Ishinomaki-City, Miyagi Prefecture. It was designed as a first step in disaster reconstruction education in Kazuma Elementary School. The schoolchildren faced the reality of the disaster through walking in their school district, recorded the status of the reconstruction, created a map based on the records of reconstruction, and presented the completed maps to the whole school and their parents. It should be noted that this case is an example of an implementation of disaster reconstruction education program led through partnerships among the City Board of Education, school teachers and students, universities and a NGO.

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We researched and calculated the percentage of wood that is wasted at the forest and the lumber mill. We measured the energy used at the two locations and also the timber market. Then we calculated the CO₂ emissions of one cubic meter of lumber production, targeting the four cases. We also researched the volume of by-products from the lumber mill. After that, we calculated the carbon balance by subtracting carbon emissions from the amount of fixed carbon. Finally, we calculated the CO₂ emissions of a single wooden houses using Japanese Ceder in Niigata prefecture.

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This study investigated CO₂ emission and amount of wastes from the renovation project which reused building frames, by process analysis, and then compared the environmental impacts of the renovation project with that of new construction project.
In the scope of this investigation, CO₂ emission from the renovation project was reduced to 43% and amount of wastes was also reduced to 30% compared with new construction project.

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