The total management plans and the individual management plans about Japanese local authorities’ public facilities will show the future state of them for the next 30 to 40 years. The aim of these plans are to keep high quality building stocks for the future generations but the method of facilities management is not clarified. In this paper, we would like to clarify the purpose and effect of extending the life span of public facilities. We focus on the existing school facilities and analyze examples of them. Then we propose a management method of rebuilding and improvement combination.

This is a report on disaster support using park trailer in a small-scale disaster at the landslide occurred on May 19, 2017 in Iiyama city, Nagano prefecture. Through the survey, new findings on the quick installation and mobility of the park trailer were confirmed. It became clear that the speediness of its installation was effective to refuge evacuees’ neighborhood. It is necessary to make a policy plan using trailer house for disaster support.

“Machini-wa Hibarigaoka” is an area management project in a housing complex developed on redeveloped site. This study conducted a questionnaire survey on the project of the residents, and clarified how the project had affected the community and what kind of issues the project would face. The paper pointed out that there was a difference of perception for the necessity of area management activities among residents, which could depend on social and special contexts.

The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct manufacturing system of Hirakawa Lumbering Factory. It was used in favorable conditions of water power supplying such as “Ide” canal in 1939. There were two floor in the factory, upper floor for lumbering, and down floor for power supplying. The flow line of wooden materials was reconstructed from the remains of lumbering machines. And the power transportation system was revealed from the analysis of machines in down floor. The design of lumbering system was rational, despite the power supply system was complicated. Therefore priority was given to lumbering system in this case.

The aim of this study is to report the production process of full-scale model of “SAITO HOUSE” designed by Seike Kiyosi. The model was exhibited in The Japanese House : Architecture and Life after 1945 at MOMAT (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). There are 4 characteristics of SAITO HOUSE, 1: A floating volume cantilevered from existing concrete basement, 2: A big south-facing opening 3: Continuous interior space, 4: Symbolic character of round column in the living room. This study clarifies that making full-scale model is new method that can comprehensively understand the designer’s intention including design and construction.

This article reported the manuscript of a speech at the opening ceremony of the Rokumei-kan on November 28, 1883 by J. Conder, which had not been reported previously. In addition, both English and Japanese newspaper reports were made for this manuscript. The speech by Conder was content that consciously considers the Imperial Palace building which proceeded at the same time as the Rokumei-kan, and it ended in frustration.

In this paper, the formation process of the “open veranda” in the realization of Residence for Lie A Hong (1968–1969) by Friedrich Silaban were analysed. Using Silaban’s archives for this house project, we divided the realization process into four phases. Throughout the plan transformation, we found out that the open veranda was not only the adjustment with the tropical climate, but also the connection to the social and personal life activities. In conclusion, we can say that the open veranda was a mechanism to interpret the indigenous climate and the modern architecture in Silaban’s residential design.

Thomas Waters, one of the ‘Oyatoi’ engineers who designed some western style architecture in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan, moved to New Zealand and was involved in the coal mine development between 1885 and 1891. Focusing on the plant layout and transport system, this paper examines the industrial heritages including the drawings he prepared and remaining structures on the site. As a result, Thomas Waters is considered to have realized the layout of coal mining plants connected by incline and rope-rode, and to have designed the incline itself with tunnels and bridges to overcome the geographical peculiarity.

De-institution refers to social and architectural practices which provide alternatives to institution- and industry-centered models. It engages with the potential of communities by recognizing common behaviors, local resources, and their spatial manifestation. The concept of de-institution practically interprets the ideas of the philosopher Ivan Illich, and is incidentally discovered in the work of architecture collectives around the world.
This paper reports on the social framework, design and construction process of Lakeside Dancers Club as a case of a de-institutionalized club. It aims to elaborate on the architectural challenges and their creative solutions to building a dancing space with social impact.

There is a problem that thinned woods are overly small diameter and un-uniform shape to saw up into lumbers as building elements. This research attempts to solve this problem by developing thinned woods processing system that consists of a thinned wood management database and robotic fabrication. In the database, thinned woods are managed as features based on photogrammetry. Appropriate materials are suggested when intended shapes are input into an inquiry function. In the robotic fabrication, a lathe-like work bench synchronously rotates the material with the robot’s movement. Validation by building log walls shows that variational shapes of thinned woods can be processed efficiently.

We developed an information gathering and judgment system that supports building facility managers who do not specialize in architectural structural mechanics to decide continuous use of damaged buildings immediately after a major earthquake. In the development system, it is necessary for the structural engineer to set up major structural members for confirming the damage situation beforehand. After the earthquake, the facility managers register the visual confirmation result of the structural members, thereby presenting the information of building continuous use. We conducted experiment for verification of the system for building facility managers and extracted improvements and considerations for the system.

In this paper, it is described about town planning education through night landscape formation with light up as project-based learning by fusion of intellectual information engineering and urban design. Concrete opinion on satisfaction of town development education showed that it was experience and its process from planning to implementation. In addition, it was clarified that the significance of this PBL was not only to create beautiful night landscape but also to create opportunities for interaction with visitors and collaborators, awareness of thinking and touching about town planning.

In accordance with the joint development of individual wagons with manufacturers accompanying free-addressing at university research facilities, this study examined the characteristics of each proposal from candidate manufacturers and factors contributing to the user’s wagon selection.
Specifically, this study clarified (1) conditions and purposes underlying candidate manufacturers’ proposals and (2) questionnaire respondents’ decisive factors in selecting wagons.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of participation in an Energy Conservation Challenge, which featured pro-environmental behavior at home. The results showed that: 1. After participating in the challenge, changes to implement more pro-environmental behavior were observed, indicating the possibility of behavior change due to participation, 2. Most of the children and parents in the same family changed in the same way and had mutual effects, 3. Based on the relationship between the number of subjects who participated in the study and the school year of the children, etc., the significance of continued participation was demonstrated.

In Japan, the architect’s profile has changed in the last decades, with a steady increase in women practitioners. Meanwhile, the intersection between gender and architecture remains scarcely explored. This paper aims to show how gender influences the architectural profession by taking as a case study the Gallery IHA Autumn Lectures 2018, a series of lectures by female architects organized and held by women under the theme “exploring the architect’s social ecosystem”. A comparative analysis of the discourse of six female architects working in Tokyo showed how to overcome gender barriers in the profession through diversifying and democratizing architectural practices.

The authors have been performed literature surveys on July 28, 1889 Kumamoto earthquake taking an opportunity of the occurrence of 2016 event in Kumamoto Prefecture. In the previous paper, reconnaissance reports and newspapers at that time were surveyed. In this paper, more literature surveys including archived Kumamoto prefectural documents were added. Processes of collecting damage data and summing up were traced using those official documents. Damage statistics appeared in various reports were also discussed based on their origins.

This research aims to clarify historical background and actual state of shoe change system in elementary school buildings in Japan. Most of them, students spend wearing shoes for indoor use like Japanese house where people remove their shoes and change into slippers. There are different rules depending on schools.
Our questionnaire survey data collected from elementary schools thorough board of education made clear that how to change of shoes are influenced by the site conditions, environmental factors, regional culture and changes in hygiene measures at the floor of toilet. These are design and utilization considerations of elementary school buildings in Japan.