This thesis investigates the effective minimum size for cutting out the edge of the intersection for reducing the mental stress of the pedestrian appearing from an intersection, by the experiment using the electrodermal activity measuring method and the virtual reality technology. 15 college students participated with this experiment. One result is that the mental stress for the crossing pedestrian could be reduce by applying a cutting out of more than 1,000 mm to the corner of the intersection. The other result that the mental stress can be more significantly reduced by applying cutting out of more than 2,000 mm. According to these results, it was suggested that cutting out the corner of the intersection of about 1,000 mm would give a certain effect on the safe passage design.

This report presents the results of the research on the building process using large diameter timber by contemporary “Miyadaiku”, carpenters specializing in shrine and temple. The building process is divided into three stages: procurement of timber, planning, and construction. By analyzing the relationship between each stage and the timber properties, such as wood grain, deformation and decay, we have clarified the intent of each planning phase and construction process.

In recent years, Catalan vault, historic lightweight masonry construction developed mainly in Catalonia of Spain, is attracting considerable attention for the thin and the capability of building various forms easily without a large-scale centering. Through the experiments on the construction of 2-way arch vault and HP-shell form vault, we clarified that the simplified centering was useful to build complicated curved surface. As a result, this study clearly showed the characteristics of Catalan vault that needs minimum guides as centering, and at the same time the freedom of form was limited by the ease of construction.

It is said that we should consider the possibility of incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the architectural design work. This research was made to clarify today’s actual working procedure of design, and the possibility of work being done by AI. We surveyed the actual working procedure with interviews and observations. In the paper we analyzed the results of the survey and made reference to the technology trend of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), while paying attention to AI as well. As a result of the analysis, when the conceivable development of AI is achieved, about half of the conventional works of architectural design systems will still be the designers’ obligation to carry out.

Nagayamon-gate still remains in various style mainly in rural areas. The paper aims to clarify actual conditions about successful ways to maintain Nagayamon-gate. Investigations about 23 examples in Tochigi Prefecture were took into practice from viewpoints of setting premises including Nagayamon-gate, uses of the very Gate, relations between farmhouse, and so on. The conclusion could be summarized as follows: 1) 3 aspects of Nagayamon-gate’s value, those are historical-cultural, symbolic, and spatial, are extracted from the analysis; 2) 23 examples of maintaining Nagayamon-gate are classified into 3 categories, each of them is considered as mainly embodying of the previous 3 values.

In Japan, the cob construction is often used for fences, but is rarely used for buildings. These buildings are being dismantled by aging and change of owner. We conducted measurement on the warehouse and the wall built with the cob construction method around the Yamanobe road in Nara prefecture. As a result, it is found that there is relationship between the structure of the warehouse, the area and the application. Furthermore, it was possible to estimate the construction method from the states of the mud wall.

Act on Special Measures concerning Urban Reconstruction amended in 2014. It enabled governments to establish Location optimization plans aiming compact city planning. It seems to increase cities which promote to establish Location Optimization Plan. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to organize about induction area of formulated Location Optimization Plans, to determine if existing relevant plans consistency and then make clear planning policy based on the policy of land use for outside induction area and induction method of inside induction area.

This study focuses on the public sector-led redevelopment of large scale housing complex. Urban regeneration project of the Lanzhou-Siwen resettlement housing, which is the first public sector-led regeneration project of resettlement housing in Taipei city is chosen as a case study. This study first clarifies the consensus building process based on community participation in the whole project. Besides, this study demonstrates the concrete method of urban regeneration focusing on the 3^rd Siwen resettlement housing for realizing the 3 basic policy proposed by Taipei city government. This case study is considered to be an important experience and reference for similar case in the future.

This study is aim to clarify distribution and facade characteristics of Machiya which has NOBORIBARI and SODEKABE in the former TONAMI county, TOYAMA prefecture. The results are as follows; 1) We extracted 649 buildings as Machiya. 2) NOBORIHARI and SODEKABE can be seen in the type of Machiya which has low hight of the second floor. The number is 110. 3) We classified them in 8 types. 4) There’s wooden eaves and latticework as common design other than NOBORIBARI and SODEKABE. On the other hand, there’s differences of characteristics on the design of SODEKABE and wooden eaves for each towns.

Under the ordinance on littering and non-smoking in Yokohama city, smoking is not allowed in the “No-smoking areas” designated 8 areas in the city to maintain pleasant urban environments. Even strict conditions for smokers, complaints and requests regarding butts and violation on the ordinance still have been claimed. In this case study, we analysis the complaints and requests which were received bureau of civic affairs using methods of text mining. Then we conducted interview with the department of community environment which is in charge of outdoor smoking. In the consequence, we could suggest two gaps. One is requests from residents and the city’s countermeasures for outdoor smoking, and other is recognition gaps between residents and the city. To challenge such a cross organizational issue, the collaboration of the administration and communities might be effective for coexistence among various residents.

This report aims to clarify utilization trend on Location Normalization Plan System in the initial period by nationwide questionnaire survey. As a result, we revealed that many cities considered public transportation, population density and disaster risk for Residence instruction area, and considered public transportation center, city center and accumulated conditions of urban functions for Urban functions inducing area. In operation of plan, there are some problems, so that systemic complement and operational improvement are required in future.

The present work aims to investigate the actual management of Craft Fair Matsumoto, and figure out the transition process from the Matsumoto Craft Fair to the Matsumoto Craft Months, which is a new town planning utilizing crafts in Matsumoto-city. We have analyzed the organization, planning, space, transportation, as well as publicity from the data of the activity over the past 34 years. Furthermore, we have shown several characteristics of the exhibition of the craft of the Matsumoto Craft Fair held in Agata-no-mori park, in the view point of the application of the public space.

This study clarifies actual condition and issues of marina development in coastal area of the Hamanako Lake by empirically method as follows: 1) the facility outline and the location characteristics of marina, 2) the regulatory overview of five laws regulation on national land utilization, and 3) the issues due to neighboring relations with the surroundings of marina are clarified. The following results are obtained by these. 1) There were 35 of marinas confirmed in Hamanako Lake. 2) Many marinas are located in the north western part of Hamanako Lake. 3) Regulation on the location of marina development is not effected enough.

‘Neopolis’ was a series of development of detached housing estates by a prefabricated housing company since the 1960’s. This study conducted a questionnaire survey in ‘Midorigaoka Neopolis’ as one of the oldest and largest ‘Neopolis’ estates, and examined the transformation of the dwellings and families through time. The survey especially focused on the change of the site/building size, the reason for renovating/rebuilding, and the deciding factor of estate/dwelling selection. It was concluded that cultivating renovation market is one of the key issues for the estate as an old new town.

For the purpose of spreading middle or large scale timber construction, a production system based on Japanese conventional house construction was aimed to establish. At first, the production characteristics and major construction work’s productivities were grasped by investigating the detached residential and non-residential building. Next, the production system which merges production planning methods of general constructors and advantages of timber construction was defined. And finally, its effect was confirmed by using production process simulation.

This paper reports the design and construction process of 3D curved reinforced concrete roof in a recent project. In design process, “base model” based on NURBS was used to make consensus on the shape between designers and contractors. In construction, it was utilized for high precision construction and rationalization.

This paper aims to find out how a vacant house utilization program works, renovation details of vacant houses, and the reality of how university students share rooms in such properties, by studying students who share rooms in vacant houses and engage in the local community’s welfare activities in Yato Area, Yokosuka City. The program is well designed in terms of effectively taking the local university’s characteristics into account. On the other hand, an effective way to reach vacant house owners, collect information, and manage such properties, is desirable. Furthermore, in order to facilitate interactions among residents and their continued residency, a communal room adjacent to the kitchen must be added as a criterion at selecting a property, and the presence of someone who supervises the room sharing lifestyle to a certain extent may be required.

This report shows architectural works in which the master carpenter Seiju Tateishi was involved, by using attendance records, stretching from 1863 to 1892, created by Tateishi and held in the former Kaichi School building as historical papers. As a result, a number of architectural works, including those not known hitherto, were assessed (including those in which Tateishi was definitely involved, amounting to as many as 111 works). The assessed architectural works included a number of modern facilities and houses, allowing one to form a general overview of Tateishi’s work overall, including his most representative work—the Kaichi School.

The housing society law had to build houses by members themselves. There were 6 guidebooks for user. And two books have posted example drawings of house. These books were made of two staff members of the Social Bureau of the Home Ministry. One is excerpted from “small house book” published by same department. We verify the house image influenced by housing improvement in Taisho era seen from drawings about three books.

In the materials of the 3rd year festival, the 10th anniversary of TAKI Daikiti, 34 stakeholders were noted, 15 of whom were officials of the Temporary Army Building Department. The iron fence established at the Three Year Festival was removed.

This paper, the author makes a literature survey and interview survey on the experience and architectural activities of architect Sugita Saburo, and clarifies Sugita Saburo practical architectural activities and its role in the reconstruction of Hiroshima.

The centrality of Tenrikyo and its axial position relative to the urban grid is a unique feature to distinguish Tenrikyo churches from other religious structures in the country. This was not a code originally demanded by the headquarters, but was later insisted in 1934, nearly 100 years after the inception of this religion. Through this research, the process of this code along with the actual implementation was found using the examples of all 159 Grand Churches across the country.

Indonesian pavilion in 1964 New York World Fair and Tugu Nasional (National Obelisk) were built in the same period of Nation-Building Projects through the same collaboration work of President Sukarno (as the patron) and Soedarsono (as the architect). Both buildings displayed several similarities as the result of the nature of Sukarno and Soedarsono work method. The purpose of the study, through the comparison, is to get further description about the architecture of Indonesian pavilion. It is identified that Indonesian Pavilion was an identical twin of Tugu Nasional that created to live in and for different environment.

This study aims to understand how and why a historic building of Catholic Tetori Church was restored promptly after Kumamoto Earthquakes in 2016. The study revealed the lay members of the Church were the main force: they, some of whom were building professionals, had established the building maintenance system since 2006 and carried out preventive maintenance. Such a proactive attitude was nurtured by the progressive Columban missionaries. The laity also find voluntary maintenance activities a joy to serve God and fellow Catholics, hence, devote more time after their retirement. These factors prevented serious damages by earthquakes and enabled prompt restoration.

In order to facilitate the application of algorithm into architectural design, VPL (Visual Programming Language), such as Grasshopper, is playing an important role in today’s industry. This paper first examines the state of implementation and problems of VPL through the results obtained by questionnaire conducted on architectural offices and general contractors in Japan. The paper then identifies the characteristics of VPL users and their use of VPL in the workflow, which were obtained from the interview. The results demonstrate the practical profit and the problems of using VPL in architectural design practices.

This project was co-created with wheelchair users worldwide who posted their experiences and ideas on a map application and provided details of suitable alternative wheelchair routes. We have proposed these measurement methods and constructed an evaluation model. We believe these are useful as a reference for facility development, analysis, and evaluation of future cities and regional spaces.

The collapse risk of building 30 in Gunkanjima is evaluated based on mobile image inspection using wearable cameras inside the building and a drone shot outside the building. The database of structural members of different deteriorated conditions is constructed from image data acquired from mobile image inspection. Collapse analyses of the 3D frame model of building 30 divided by four blocks are performed against vertical dead and live loads and horizontal earthquake loads for predicting the collapse risk of each block respectively.

The purpose of the research is for an improvement of living environment in shelter and temporary houses for residence people and their pets, with construction technologies after a disaster situation. We surveyed and classified temporary housing according to the living patterns of pets, and categorized the process of the living environment with shelter and temporary houses during the terms between disaster and revival situations. In addition we conducted a field survey at temporary housing in Fukushima and Kumamoto for the influence with a prolonged evacuation life.