This paper aims to examine history and rooms of respite care facilities for the elderly. The findings are as follows. (1) There are two cases that respite care have been included in nursing home when the establishment, independent respite care facilities since the establishment, and both cases to be established after 1990. (2) It have some merits in respite care facilities, but works of the staffs become complicated because of users' frequent replacement. (3) In the latest respite care facilities, single rooms and double rooms are on the increase. And in facilities of having less fixed number, it is high rate that each user can use single room. (4) In respite care facilities, it can allocate room easily for each use's needs because of having many single rooms.

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As the birthrate decreased and the population of the elderly explodes, generally speaking, it is said that it is important for children and elderly people to have communication each other for their social participations. We made a consiousness research for the five and six grade of elementary schools, their parents, and elderly people, that live in three elementary school areas in Muroran. As the result of the research, the half of them answered that they have communication what we wrote before. People that hope to live in their area answered that it is important to have more communication.

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In this paper we focused intercommunication activities between children and the aged in the complex of promary school and day service center, as we thought promoting those activities should enhance significance of the composition. Two composite schools were chosen and some investigations were made in order to address the subjects of composition from architectural planning viewpoint. The conclusions are as follows : 1) primary school and day service center are both interested in promoting the intercommunication ; 2) children, their parents, school teacheres and staffs of day service center are all in favor of the intercommunication ; 3) intercommunication space of compsite schools should be expanded and improved.

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The purpose of this study is to collect basic data for the restore of premodern checkpoints. For the reason of being lacking in the existence and restore of premodern checkpoints. (1) The promulgation on the abolition of premodern checkpoints by the Meiji Government. (2) Most premodern checkpoints were recognized to cultural place in the Showa period. (3) Development of national highways and rivers for the modernization of trafic. (4) Most premodern checkpoints were not reused for folk houses by reason of being lacking in the housing function.

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This study examines the cause of miscommunication which wakes up in the drawing works in small design firms. The method was that architect and draftsman were interviewed, when the discrepancy of the interpretation for the indication was generated in the design work, and it was carried out in the form which caught the process for the thought. The architect tends to consider the detailed and individual contents from the whole of object regarding as architecture. In the meantime, the draftsman tended to compose the whole of the small concrete decision.

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This paper reports the development of the underground sound isolation wall which reduces the vibration from outside. The developed form tie which supports the form panel from the cofferdam isolates the structure-borne sound from the ground surrounding the building. This developed technique enabled to build a concert hall next to a heavy traffic railroad.

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The main purpose of this research is the development of external siding system that used thin-steel sheet for outside insulated RC and S-construction. The examination item is relation between interval of substrate and substance thermal transmittance, etc. As a result, the following were shown. ・It is rational to make interval of substrate with 2,000mm or 2,500mm. ・ Two shapes were proposed from the examination with regard to execution of work ; the height of ditch is 60mm and 50mm, the thickness is 0.6mm. ・ The propriety of the structural design data and the safety of two shapes that were proposed previously was inspected from a viewpoint of prevention of falling.

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We arranged imageries and elements organizations of covering architectural structures by observation of 5 typical spaces by means of book photographs. And we set several transformed CG models for each of the 5 spaces changing form and placement of covering structure, surface, and opening. We operated questionnairs to 29 architectural students showing the model photos. We clarified the imagery structures : relations between 4 representative spatial order imageries and form and placement of organization elements.

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This paper aims to identify the method of community development programme and projects with Groundwork in the United Kingdom, reviewing planning process, partnership building and fund raising. Articles of newsletter, 'Groundwork Today', from 1987 to 1997 as well as data of field sueveys for 5 times from 1996 to 2000 were analyzed to clarify the subject. As a result, programme and projects in diversity could be classified into 4 types : 1) improving physical environment ; 2) education and participation of community ; 3) integrating economic revitalization and environmental protection ; 4) preserving natural and historical resources. Typical method in each type could be described according to some examples.

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This article presents case studies aimed at clearing the role of design guidelines for downtown revitalization on main street programs in local cities in the United States. Author pointed out six important roles of the design guidelines for downtown revitalization as follows ; beginning from many small building improvements, making for citizen's consensus, historic preservation as design symbols, easily understanding the guidelines for citizen, design strategy for competition with shopping mall, relating with financial programs. These design strategies are lack in the downtown revitalization program in Japanese local cities.

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There is considerable consensus now that planning with citizen participation is one of the most important points on planning process. The purpose of this paper is assessing the planning process of Bansui Forest Park planed by citizen of Nanporo town in Hokkaido. Author pointed out advantage points and problems as follows : separating land use planning and facilities planning is useful in the first stage, because it is important to make a comprehensive plan without facility images. Enhancement for citizen participation within planning process is important, then the municipality have to open its information to the public.

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The purpose of this paper is to consider the image of residential environment in urban fringe area of local cities. We analyzed some examples, which used rural residential institution in five municipalities in Hokkaido. As a result of analysis, we pointed out four investigation items : rural residence, agriculture environment, farm village community, and land use of whole urban fringe area. These four items are important for planning of suburban environment.

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To set up a support system of the elderly dwelling life, we investigated 3 small-scale day- service facilities (Takurosyo) in Aichi prefecture as advanced cases by questionnaires to registrants and volunteers in Takurosyo, and to the administration on the managing system of the facilities. We propose a novel facilities for supporting system of the elderly dwelling life, where the administration supports fundamental management and their finance for facilities and utilization fees of them. Furthermore the facilities connects with an elementary school and facilities for the community (each neighborhood unit) for the elderly to communicate with the different generations there.

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The aim of this paper is to examine and clarify the procedures of treatment and redevelopment process by undertaking case study of former factory and landfill sites in the Netherlands. It also tries to find the effect and difficulties of Soil Protection Act 1994. Investigation methods used are interviews and site visits, and ten cases have been investigated. In conclusion, it became clear that the act is effective to apply in the different stages of investigation and remediation of the contaminated sites, and also the application was wide to cover various cases.

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Value within landscape generation can be considered a combination of visual and environmental perception. In that case, within the landscape phenomenon, subjectivity trajects objectivity. To ascertain the characteristics of landscape generation, evaluations by Korean Envoys during the Edo period were studied. The results showed that a subject's imaginary perception adjusts in relation to the object landscape's viewpoint. Furthermore, it became clear that Shinsenkyo was a valuable imaginary perceptual image in the Envoy's compiling of this landscape phenomenon.

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The design of residential quarter of Radburn by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright was not merely aimed at separation of pedestrians from Automovieles, but deeply considered systematic development of green tracts. In addition, it was incorporated management and maintenance system of green by residents' organization. The system can be the major reason for successful maintenance of greem tracts since the beginning of the Radburn development. The Radburn Association has been engaged in the management and manintenance activity of green in Radburn. We clarified that their system and activities made maintenance of green environment in the Radburn possible so that the original conditions have been kept since its development. This study report such our findings on the Radburn's system that maintained the green environment.

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In order to promote the urban greening by citizen's participation in future, it is important to enlighten a citizen its significance. This paper reports the present condition and problems of the greening educational activities at schools as a case study. The analysis is based on the data of questionnaires and the hearing survey about the greening educational activities at elementary schools and lower secondary schools. The greening educational activities have some effects not only to learn the knowledge of plants, but also to communicate with the school children and students and the neighbors.

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate items and conditions of discussion on plan making which make the neighboring inhabitants ease to participate. As a result, items of discussion were devided into three cases, which are all of requirements affected discussion, a part of requirements affected discussion, and no requirement affected discussion. To be able to accept more their requirements, it is important to give them many informations of project, and the persons concerned should join the community organization.

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The city planning of Toyohira park and the city planning implementation were decided in 1942. The characteristics of the park featured the coherence of plans of city planning road, scenic zone and park. However, the park project was abandoned because of the damages to the area and another park was planned soon after the Second World War. In 1975, the request from citizens has realized the re-location of the park to the adjacent area of the original plan.

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In the Region of Hokkaido, local government has push forward with an original way of landscape administration. But, it is expected to design the territorial landscape plan of a large region with cooperation because landscape of Hokkaido spread beyond administration sphere. The purpose of this study is to show the process of landscape planning of a large region, which will expand in Hokkaido. We research Tokachi sub prefecture, planning landscape of a large region from 2000. We report the process of first stage.

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It is important to understand residents' opinions in preservation of historic districts. Based on a case study in the preservation district of Sawara in Chiba prefecture, we analyzed the resident's opinions toward present conditions, future goal, residential needs, etc. As a result, it is concluded that residents consciousness toward preservation has improved. However, further promotion and consideration of the present regulations and guidelines is needed.

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This report is part of a series of studies (preceded by Part 1 and Part 2) targeting the residents of a cooperative housing complex that includes threegenerational residences. The study goes beyond conventional concepts for facility planning involving the providing of needed functions, by clarifying the need for living space planning with a mutual permeation of consciousness with regard to people, activities and spaces, in order to form an allencompassing creativity for group living and leisure time. The management and leisure activities of those who live in cooperative housing complexes that include three-generation residences produce a mutual permeation of consciousness in terms of both concrete achievements and attitudes. This study is pursued from the standpoint of ways to conduct process planning in order to provide a unique personality to the quality of space.

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It argues about the taking-up architecture style process of the featuring acceptance systematically in the Japanese architect to World War II from the latter period of Meiji of the beginning period in Shanghai settlement. In the beginning period, the Hirano and Fukui played an active part. They accepted an European architecture style naturally because the technical basis that they are not from the viewpoint of "The Extrication Asia principle" and that they are basic already was established. In the 19l7-1920s, the design emerged for the architecture style of the Japanese elementary school by the Norwegian architect Mura. It thinks that this is first with the school architecture in Japan, being made with ferroconcrete. The design of Mura influenced Okano and made Shanghai style of the two layer composition and the vertical-type slit. In the 1930-1940s, the influence of International style was seen. For example, it is the arrangement of the regular window which destroyed the outer wall and the symmetry of the white one color and so on. The Japanese architect who made Shanghai a base thinks that they are the parts of the Japanese Modern Architecture History because they were Europe and the architecture activity while affected at the one of the Japanese mainland.

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We describe the history and the present state of the Official Residence for the Commander of Karafuto-Guards, which was completed in 1908. We also deal with its suspected designer, Army Architect Yasushi Tamura (1878-1942), who is known as the designer of the Divisional Headquarters Office of the Imperial Guards. The official residence has high value in the modern architectural history not only because it is one of the oldest buildings of the Japanese colonial period in Sakhalin, but also because it was a dwelling house built for the people of highest class in Sakhalin.

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This paper deals with the process of demolishing the Kinold Memorial Pavilion of Fuji Gakuen, Sapporo, designed by architect Max Hinder in 1924, and with the citizens movement toward preserving it. The Kinold Memorial Pavilion was selected as one of 100 cultural hometown properties of Sapporo as well as one of 88 historical and cultural properties of Kita-ku in Sapporo. This paper proposes that we should not only refer to the investigation report or drawings of measuring the historical buildings but also to the citizens movement for preservation of historical properties.

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At the stage of planning of steel-frame structures, it is important to obtain the whole characteristic of the planning of construction works, the aseismic safety of structures and so on. So, this system uses Genetic Algorithm as an evolutionary computation method. This report proposes a support system by which users can obtain the useful information on the quantity surveying of steels and the basic structural performances in a short time.

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The author has developed a quantitative evaluation method of building performance from a viewpoint of Facility Management. This method is expected to contribute to corporations' business improvement by means of optimization of building facilities as management resources. In this method, the author adopted hierarchically defined function items, AHP method and fuzzy integral. A case study has proved the possibilities of this method. On the other hand, it admits alternatives of variables based on values. For this reason, consent of values through collaboration and feedback is required in order to refine the method for practical use.

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Cambridge University and Microsoft are planning a shared computer research and teaching laboratory on a green-field site to the west of the city. The clients wished to use internet based communication between themselves and their architects, including email, a web site and virtual reality. We explain how this is to be achieved, and describe experiences during the first half of a two-year project. Particularly success has been the use of games software (Quake II) for 3D presentation of the emerging building design.

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This paper proposes a robust method for tracking many pedestrians. The proposed method extracts pedestrians while they are isolated and starts tracking them forward and backward. For reliable tracking, furthermore, the method generates plural candidates for a pedestrian path when features of the pedestrian are ambiguous, and eliminates false candidates in other frames. In tracking, if the region of a tracked pedestrian is ambiguous because of overlapping with other pedestrians, plural candidates for a pedestrian path are generated, and false candidates are eliminated in other frames. We apply the proposed method to real image sequences and show the effectiveness.

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It may be suffering to understand STEP documents because of some characteristics of them. For example, all entities are listed in alphabetical order in the STEP documents but STEP entities have very significant relationships among them, therefore yor cannot easily grasp such relationships from the ducuments. STEP Schema Viewer helps you to understand the structure of STEP schemas. It figures 'subclass' relationships between entities as a tree form, all attributes defined in each entities and types of those attributes. STEP Schema Viewer is a helper application software built on QualiSTEP produced by CSTB.

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After Taiwan Earthquake took place, until March 2001, housing recovery for Taiwan Earthquake has entered reconstruction stage. This paper aims to identify the real state and problems of housing reconstruction by analyzing the interview of public agencies and data collected. To solve problems of housing reconstruction concerned with land rights, laws and capital, re-measuring land registers, amendment of reconstruction laws, and raising of social rebuilding funds are used as measures for housing reconstruction. In the future, it will be necessary to build database by undertaking investigation of sufferers.

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The Nisqually Earthquake, magnitude 6.8, occurred at 10 : 54 A. M. on February 28th 2001. Its hypocenter lay 50km beneath the Nisqually delta area, 18km northeast of Olympia, Washington, USA. Severe structural damage was primarily observed in older unreinforced masonry buildings and older structures located on weak soils. Limited structural damage was observed in new structures. Non-structural and older structures included damage to windows, partitons, electrical and sprinkler systems, and damage to contents. Altoughmost structures performed well from life safety viewpoint, disruption of service at airports, city and state agencies, and local and national businesses, resulted in significant economical losses. The preliminary research on building damage is summarized in this report.

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Mt. Usu in Hokkaido, one of the active volcanoes in Japan, has been erupting since 31 March 2000. In surrounding towns, houses, buildings, water pipes and roads have been damaged, because of the volcanic activities, such as ballistic ejecta, mudflow,earthquakes, and crustal deformation. This paper describes the survey on damaged buildings operated by Abuta Town and Hokkaido Government. We found out that a lot of bases are damaged or destroyed by the surface ground deformation. And then, we made GIS maps of damaged buildings with regard to volcanic damage assessment.

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