This study proposes a planning technique of the re-organization of elementary school by estimation of the number of students. Firstly, we estimate the number of elementary school students in a local city, and select schools that should be re-organized by index-values. Then, we simulate re-organization. As results, the schools will be re-organized depending on the decrease of students, and the number of re-organized schools will change by the index-values. We also examine the simulation from the point of time span to carry out the re-organization, time span to repair existing buildings and moving time limit of going to school.

We examined the effect of sliding door handles that expand operation range in terms of door-opening behavior of wheelchair users. An experiment was conducted to verify if the wheelchair users could open the sliding door 750mm which allowed them to go through the door without bending their trunk forward. Results showed that the range of the wheelchair positions allowed the subjects to open the width were expanded by the door handles with wide operation range. It also showed that the situation which the wheelchair was facing 45 degrees to the sliding door was more effective than other directions.

After the disasters of Great East Japan Earthquake, emergency temporary houses were built not only by standardized prefabricated method based on light gauge steel construction but also by timber based alternative method. Compared with standardized prefabricated houses, timber houses have a number of advantages such as general appearances and thermal comfort, therefore those could be still alternatives for the future. This is a case study investigation on how to reuse timber elements through dissolution and rebuilding from temporary housing to disaster recovery housing by ITAKURA timber construction method.

In Amami-Oshima there are many forest resources and vegetation cover was mostly laurel trees like Castanopsis sieboldii.
We investigated traditional wooden folk houses in Amami-Oshima.
This report is mainly presented the wooden construction system called “Hikimun”. We researched seven traditional wooden folk houses at Sumiyou villages and Yamato villages there are the mountain area and at Kasari villages there are the plain area in Amami-Oshima.
Castanopsis sieboldii was used as many parts except the main construction. As inter pillars and Hikimun, Schima wallichii were used. And about after 1945, Castanopsis sieboldii was used as a roofing called Hiraki.

This report is the user participation technique in the refurbishing work of nursery school outside wall in Nisshin city, Aichi Prefecture. We interviewed nursery school children by “coloring”. Parents and nursery school teachers deepened their understanding of refurbishing work by the coloring of the nursery school children. Develop user participation technique for nursery school children and summarize results and issues.

This is the second paper reporting the versatile renovation method for staircase type residential building. Previously we reported 1) the technical review process for building upgrade, and 2) many variation of room types which accepts diversity of residents. Here we report 3) the legalization scheme to promise the renovated building safety, and 4) the method of construction record on which the condition of existing skeleton is described in detail. Both verification reports are on the case of large-scale renovation project by Tokyo Metropolitan Housing Supply Corporation.

The purpose of this research is to obtain knowledge of Support for Temporary Housing Environment. KASEI, interuniversity network of architecture laboratories around Kyushu, was established for this purpose and has been engaging in support after Kumamoto Earthquake. Finally, KASEI has become as new a type of interuniversity network that systematically supporting disaster-struck areas as never before.
This paper assessed the role of Concepts of KASEI through reporting individual actions and pointed out issues to be solved in the future. KASEI has to engage in supporting until all the temporary housing in Kumamoto dismantled after emergency rescue use.

This study aims to clarify characteristics of base place to stay for dual-habitation without own a home. Findings are as follows; 1) 50 percent of organizer are public sector, and 80 percent of operator are private sector. 2) Many of base-places are located along the expressway. 3) High percentage of base-place established private sector at cottage area. 4) Many of base-places type of EP, TH and SH are renovated from vacant building. 5) KG business scale tend to be greater than others. 6) Many of base-places type of SH have usable sharing system for increase rate of utilization of buildings.

This study clarifies next following three issues which are targeted the Local Government holds the Undeveloped State of the Temporary Use District Restricted Zone in Aichi Prefecture.
①Grasping the Land Use Conditions in the Temporary Use District Restricted Zone ②Factorial analysis of the Undeveloped State ③Clarify the Land Use Issue meticulously and the way of the institutional Temporary Use District Restricted Zone with considering future measure of Land Use directivity by typical cases.

This research report shows the consideration of regeneration initiatives for historic townscape in the initial stage. Using action research method, we applied two space producing techniques to Ishiwaki Street. One space producing technique is to line up handmade lanterns that are made of bamboo and Japanese paper on the street, the other is to open the Installation in a Machiya house. This research clarified followings. 1) The producing by lanterns and Installation provided the opportunities for revaluating the townscape and the Machiya house. 2) The producing contributed to causing of cooperation consciousness for regeneration of the historic townscape.

The report introduces the present condition of descriptions about the natural disaster in landscape planning and countermeasures for natural disaster in the landscape important district. The targets are 7 landscape important districts in Tokai region that were assumed the damage by the tidal wave in the case of the great Nankai trough earthquake. As the result of analysis, it has become clear that disaster measures were not considered sufficiently on the whole. In the future, the landscape administrative organizations need to reconsider the landscape plan, and designate the landscape important district considering natural disasters and take countermeasures for natural disaster.

In recent years, new type advertisement using image devices and advertising from inside to outside on the windows has increased. This research aims to analyze the actual condition and issues of outdoor/indoor advertisement based on landscape plan by the nationwide questionnaire survey. As a result, about 60% of the municipalities had descriptions about standards or guidelines for outdoor advertisement in their landscape plan. About 35% of them replied that new types advertisements were increasing. However, the position of the law is not clarified for indoor advertisements. It is necessary to add the definition of indoor advertisement legally.

Urban renewal corporations support the town development activities of residents, and it is designated as an organization that carries out complementary functions of administration. However, from the questionnaire survey, it was found that urban renewal corporations are conducting projects on their own initiative, and the consciousness to take on complementary functions is low. Urban renewal corporations conducted the most work based on the Urban Convenience Promotion Agreement, and it turned out that it carries out a project with high public nature while raising profit.

“Kagai” is a precious entertainment district that succeeds traditional Japanese culture including architecture, dress, dance, music, cuisine, etc. They are declining because of shift in economic trend. On the other hand, some Kagai are regenerated. In addition, events and opening Kagai buildings to the public for the purpose of the Kagai promotion are conducted in recent years. This study aims to clarify the actual situation of events and opening of Kagai buildings to the public in 47 Kagai throughout Japan.

The purpose of this report is to clarify the relationship between the amount of pedestrian and factors concerning facilities in the central district of a local city. To this end, this report developed multiple regression models for explaining the amount of pedestrian in central Aomori city by the stepwise regression. The results showed that the amount of pedestrians is large in the vicinity of the large-scale places of business and is small in places remote from the station. It also suggested that the influence that a large-scale retail stores gives on the amount of pedestrian decreased recently.

The study describes an analysis on historic drawings about OKURA MUSEUM OF ART designed by Chuta Ito. There are 43 drawings, these drawings are original drawings, blue prints, microfilms. Only one sheet of drawing has a signature by Chuta Ito. 14 architectural drawings have a common title block. These are the final drawings. There were somehow related to Chuta, and definitely or probably designed by Chuta. These 14 final drawings are not a reduced scale. So it is impossible to build the museum building with these final drawings. I assume there was a backup by Okura Doboku in the construction.

The internal documents and materials made by Nippon Chisso Hiryo group before World War II were inspected and examined. In particular, many drawings and documents of the Chosen Chisso Hiryo owned by Chisso Corporation were scanned or digitalized. Some city maps of the Hungnam district, North Korea, were also collected.
These historical materials allowed us to re-examine the layouts for some company house areas of Chosen Chisso Hiryo and to contribute to our deep understanding. Some drawings allowed us to examine several buildings and houses constructed in Hungnam district and to detect new or more detailed facts.

The paper reports the results of the cause investigations of the suspended ceiling collapse, in the auditorium of Kudan Kaikan, which occurred during the off the pacific of Tohoku earthquake on March 11^th, 2011. In part 2, the structural identification and the historical documentations of the ceiling are described, while the detection of the mechanical behavior and process of the collapse of the ceiling are reported in the part 1.

For the plaster finished ceiling in the historic building, aseismic renewal method was developed. The method consists of the earthquake resistance by fixation of the ceiling base and the dropping prevention using mesh sheet and steel wire. Through experiments and numerical analysis, it was verified that the developed aseismic reinforcement method has acquired earthquake resistance performance. Utilizing measurement technology and BIM, we carried out construction with high precision in a short construction period. With this developed aseismic method, we were able to improve the earthquake resistance and fall prevention of the ceiling without changing the existing construction method, materials and appearance.

We developed voice navigation system based on a smartphone for visually impaired people. This system realized high level localization accuracy that has only 1-2 meters average error using PDR and BLE beacons, and timely voice guidance. We conducted user evaluation test with 10 blind and visually impaired people in order to assess use of this system. In this test, they walked in-and-outdoor routes with using this navigation. We evaluated precision of the voice navigation system and clarify the necessary function for their travel using voice guidance.

SfM (Structure from Motion) is a kind of computer vision that creates a point cloud of surrounding scenery and camera poses from photographs. Our previous studies have shown that camera poses and their convenient estimation technique can provide beneficial uses in architectural fields.
This paper reviews the availability of SfM as a pose estimation technique. The availability is studied in two uses: photographic measurement and location-based photograph management. In photographic measurement, camera poses are adequately estimated and measuring results show applicative accuracy. Location-based photograph management proposes a way to plot 3D CAD and a searchable database of new photographs’ poses.

To be a registered architect in the United States, there requires three categories: Education, Practice and Examination. The architectural licensure system confronts series of revisions, since prolongation until the license acquisition causes a serious problem against upbringing and the securing of the successor talented human-resources. In this paper, the introduction of a new system, IPAL: Integrated Path to Architecture Licensure was summarized, and further investigation was conducted to clarify the actual management and situations of the new curriculums for the programs accepted by NCARB.