In this study, we will focus on the “Sea Cat Study Abroad System”, which has a 22-year history of actually operating the studying abroad island system. As a result, it is worth noting that children’s daily life and school life are not completed only at home or school, but are carried out throughout the region, so that learning and experiences that can not be obtained only at home or school can be obtained. The actual situation was caught. However, there are problems with the adoption of foster parents, such as the aging of the foster parents.

In a declining society, the problem of vacant houses has surfaced in local areas. This study aims to clarify this situation and the future impact of vacant houses in a district of Daisen town. Forms of land ownership in this district includes many cases of multiple land owners, no inheritance of land ownership, and unknown whereabouts. About half the buildings in the district are likely to be vacant houses, and 60% of these buildings in the district are hard to use. The questionnaire for the residents implies that the residents need to consult about vacant houses, and desire preventive measures.

Although urban planning zoning systems define a commercial district as an agglomeration of commercial and business land, these days the number of high-rise apartments has increased in such areas. To prevent undesirable changes in the urban environment, through an excessive increase in housing, some cities implement residential development regulations in commercial districts. This study examines the current status of residential development regulations applicable to 434 commercial districts in Japan. The research concludes that conditional development directives will aid in implementing the various regulations applicable to commercial districts.

This study focuses on events held in Onden, Shibuya and Iida, Nagano that a university laboratory specializing in urban design supported while introducing intercity as well as industry-academia-public-private collaborations. The study found that events held through intercity collaboration is effective as initial implementation of long-term effort for regional promotion and problem solving, and suitable for social contribution activities implemented by a university laboratory. The study also found that it is necessary to establish a sustainable implementation system between a university and cities while paying attention to respective regional needs to lead to permanent improvements.

The purpose of this research is to analyze in detail the change in population distribution structure, distribution of living convenience in the process of population decline, and their mutual relationship, and aim for a realistic urban structure plan in the future to obtain the knowledge of this will help to empirically verify whether the Urban Function Attraction Area set by the creation of Location Optimization Plan can exert the desired effect.
Changes in the actual urban structure are suitable for leveling both in the distribution of population and in the distribution of living convenience.

London Olympic Games 2012 presented the new solution of the temporary competition venues located at the central city with city-scape as backdrop and its TV images broadcasted to the world. The broadcasted images of Games showing city-scape with athlete and venues is called “Olympic-scape”. Temporary competition venues as research objects, were Greenwich Park (Equestrian), Horse Guards Parade (Beach Volleyball) and the central city (Marathon) The research subject is to reveal characters of camerawork, athlete, venue and cityscape composing Olympic-scape and their relationship by analising the official movies of Olympic channel.

The focus is on a bottom-up process to create publicness based on individual actions. We have conducted a case study of citizens’ initiatives to privately build a pavilion in a city park. This paper describes the process in which citizens’ initiatives that began with a small number of individuals have spread widely, with the public involvement of the local government, and has taken root for the local residents over time. The interaction of private-ness and publicness is suggested to create a place for collective local activities.

Through the process of Shinjuku Mitsui Building’s lobby and landscape renewal, following points become clear as renovating POPS of Specified Block System in Tokyo.
1) Organizing the data about how the POPS were located and has been maintained is important to negotiate with the municipal government about what should be respected in its renovation. 2) The reasons to re-locate the POPS had been based on the disaster prevention, while the public interest is the rising reason. 3) It is the key concept for realization of compelling communication space in today’s office building, to plan both interior/exterior and public/semi-public space together.

For the purpose of the integration of river space and town space, we analyzed the policy of “Kawamachizukuri”. The plan of the Kawamachizukuri area organized in terms of both software policy and hardware policy. As a result of analyzing the contents of the application form using text mining analysis, it was found that characteristics were depending on the city size and the year of registration.

This research analyzed the process of how discussion topics change in Renovation School Program in Tottori. The purpose of the paper is to consider the features of the complex communication between experts and participants, not a simple consensus making between the government and citizens in planning process, and how it results in outcomes. To clarify the complex communication, this research focused on the relationship between discussion process and words used in the final presentation referring to interviews of experts. As a result, the research found that discussions have been developing while repeating divergence and regression of topics.

This study aims to report the pilot program carried out to examine the future utilization of private open space and to verify its process. First, we set three themes and four verification items. Through the three experimental efforts and questionnaire surveys, it was clarified that eating and drinking function such as cafe and local exchange programs were required, and that the spatial structure was desirable to allow local exchanges and regular events. As a result, it became possible to raise the interest of local residents, to build a network of collaborators, and to verify feasible program.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the usage and evaluation structure of greenway for the elderly. Through a questionnaire survey, the “life factor” and “walking factor” have an impact on the “comprehensive evaluation” from the evaluation structure model. And the link between “bicycle factor” and “comprehensive evaluation” is not significant. For the other hands, the free description of the walking environment shows that the elderly is sensitive to the safety aspects of bicycles. The elderly who use the greenway as a “travel route to the destination” is aware of safety.

Through collecting and analyzing civil cases of fall accidents from 2000 to 2017, the fact that the judgment which the facility managers were liable for fall accidents due to the facility defects had occupied the majority was found. And the study of the causes of falls by facility type revealed that “slip” occupied for about 70% in the commercial facilities, “stumbling” occupied majority in the road facilities, “slip” and “step off” occupied 50% in the public facilities, and “stumbling” occupied 100% in the common space of the residential facilities.

The author conducted a fact-finding survey on the design and construction process of plumbing renovation works with the case from a super high-rise condominium. This research aims to reveal 1) Consensus-building process on the renovation works at the condominium associations 2) Project delivery methods and their challenges in the design development stage and 3) Challenges in the construction stage. Among the significant factors for the successful renovation works lies the consensus-building processes developed beforehand by the condominium associations. Construction execution plans considering the elevator operating ratio or the cost on the residents’ burden should be among future topics of discussion.

In this paper, the probability density function of renewal of the equipment in use is shown by dividing the probability density of renewal by the physical service life and that by the economically optimum service life. These differ in the method of renewal assessment, and this category is important in practice. In addition, the probability of being updated collectively by the economically optimum life and the probability density of the update based on the physical service life after the update are shown separately. These life cycle perspectives are intended to provide the basis for FM and building maintenance planning.

The aim of this paper is to clarify composition of Oya-stone buildings and townscape at Tanaka and Monzen district, Tokujirou town in Utsunomiya city. Firstly, we found 127 stone-buildings at 38 sites in the districts. 11 typologies of stone-buildings were analyzed through construction method and functions of buildings. Secondly, composition of　the sites was analyzed through layout of the buildings and relationship to farmland and topography. Finally, we found 3 characteristic types of townscape which reflect local architectural culture with local materials and technologies.

Chōchikukyo was built in 1928 as the home of architect Koji Fujii (1888-1938), and it was designated as a national important cultural property in 2017. But it has not been known what kind of life has been conducted in this house. Therefore, I interviewed Mrs. Ayako Konishi who was born in 1923 and lived in Chōchikukyo as the second daughter of Koji Fujii. Various aspects of life, such as room names, were first clarified in this paper. And this way of living information is also useful for the future utilization of this house.

It is well-known that Kenzo Tange and Yoshikatsu Tsuboi jointly designed the Yoyogi National Stadium, but their first collaborative project was the Ehime Prefectural Hall, completed in 1953. Related materials are found in the collections of Tange’s daughter, Michiko Uchida, and the Kawaguchi Kenichi Laboratory of the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. Close investigation elucidates the study process of Tange and Tsuboi for designing the gymnasium. This analysis will prove useful for analyzing the Yoyogi National Stadium design process.

The Kawaguchi Kenichi Laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, has, in its collection, the landscaping change drawings for the Yoyogi National Stadium designed by Kenzo Tange. They consist of six volumes containing design change instructions and drawings made during the construction period. These drawings also contain Tange’s instructions for reusing flagstones from the Tokyo tramline for the Yoyogi National Stadium pavement. This report explains part of the Yoyogi National Stadium design process by summarizing and cataloging these materials.

It is known that Goryokaku plan was based on documents sent by a French warship “Constantine” in 1855. It is not clear which book is the original version, but Ayasaburo TAKEDA, designer of Goryokaku referred to a Dutch version of French book, Cours élémentaire de fortification by SAVART, according to the former researches. In fact, any example of whole model plan of the star fort is not contained in this textbook. In this report, it is examined whether TAKEDA based Goryokaku plan on this Cours, by dimensional comparisons between Goryokaku and some examples of figures in this book.

Climate emergency has triggered environmental concerns in different forms of architectural practice. Shenzhen Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture (UABB) provides the framework to question obsolete models that still shape our cities. This report aims to provide a design methodology that addresses the intersection between green resources and the urban environment by examining two pavilions designed by Atelier Bow-Wow + Tsukamoto Laboratory at UABB 2017 and 2019. These projects are the means to reveal the possibility of transforming green waste into resources for reconstructing urban commons based on existing livelihoods. Potentialities and failures are shown, rethinking commons in the contemporary metropolis.

Originally the house registers of the Meiji period had the character of a registry that notarized ownership etc. and functioned as a levy basis of tax, but eventually they came to　specialize in the latter.
The house register of Makabe in 1902 was made in the style before transition to the house tax, and it is thought that it strengthened the character as a levy standard based on the actual situation of the house and provided more accurate floor plans and layouts.

OKURA MUSEUM OF ART was built in 1927, so it has survived for nearly 100 years. It’s time for the renovation of the copper sheet roof. The roof of OKURA MUSEUM OF ART has the jade emerald rust. It takes a long time for a copper sheet roof to become coated with green rust. A copper sheet roof with beautiful green rust has precious value. We have developed a new method which repairs the copper sheet roof. This new method of repairing overlap 2 of copper sheets on the original surface.

With the spread of AI and IoT, BACS (Building Automation and Control Systems) has also become more sophisticated. Although many of these systems are cloud-based, the lack of metadata in data collected from local BACS creates problems such as inconsistency with local devices and difficulty in cross-cutting data analysis. In this paper, we propose metadata assignment and information model generation methods for cloud-based BACS using BIM and data analysis. We developed and evaluated a tool to automate the extraction of spatial structure and to infer the suitable class of a point of BACS by data analysis.　

The purpose of this research is to develop a methodology to classify the degree of earthquake damage with no specialists, in order to support the early restoration of the damaged condominium. In order to realize this, we performed fine tuning of the pre-trained convolutional neural network (VGG16), and developed a methodology to identify the damage index from damage photographs of RC partial walls. As a result, some classifiers that could classify the damage index into three ranks (less equals to III, IV, V) with accuracy rates of 91% for the input damage　photographs were generated.

A resident’s behavior was continuously measured with millimeter wave radar for a week at unit-type nursing home for the elderly. Sleep and wandering behaviors that could not be known by visiting were identified. By combining the behavior measurement system that can continuously grasp resident’s position and posture and visits by care staff, the behavior of the resident at night can be grasped more accurately while reducing the burden on the staff. This method was shown to contribute more effectively to improve the quality of elderly life and reducing the burden of nursing care work compared to the conventional monitoring methods.

This study aims to propose effective teaching tools and architectural education methods of indoor luminous environment using 1/10 assembly house models for junior high school students. The sun orbit device was developed as a supplementary tool. Architectural lectures concerning incidence of direct sunlight and insolation shading were conducted for 606 junior high school students in Nagaoka city during 2016, 2018 and 2019. Architectural education using these models and devices deepened students’ understanding concerning the variation of indoor luminous environment form the viewpoints of sun orbits in each season and time, and locations of a window in a house.

For the purpose of application to the citizen-participated monitoring program on rainwater management, we developed a tool for diagnosing the degree of contribution to runoff control from the location, scale, layout, and structure of gardens on detached house premises. This tool was applied to detached houses along an actual rainwater drainage system in Setagaya ward, and the pattern and location of the obtained data were analyzed. As a result, the contributions to runoff control can be patterned according to the place and composition of gardens, and it was considered that the tool can be utilized to select important areas.

The 1872 Hamada earthquake occurred just after the Meiji revolution and caused damage in present Shimane Prefecture, the western part of Honshu faced to the Japan Sea. At that time modern seismology was not started yet and the first scientific paper on this earthquake was appeared after 12 years and detailed field investigations were done 40 years later. In this paper, we carried out literature surveys on this event and traced the process of the establishment of the total damage features and distributions. The effect of snow was also discussed because of her snowy location and occurrence season.

We investigated the building’s damage due to ballistic ejecta near the volcanic vent. It is important for developing the resisted buildings against volcanic disasters to gather the building damage data because the volcanic disaster is lower occurrence than the natural disaster such as windstorm and flood disaster.
Furthermore, we developed the quick damage investigation sheet based on the other disaster and above investigation, because we are restricted access to a disaster victim area on occurring volcanic disaster.