The aim of this paper is to capture the features of “the Age of the Games“ examining cases of the 2008 Beijing Games compared with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and to explore the influence of structural formation on these two megacities in East Asia. Although it is generally recognized that Beijing followed a similar development route as Tokyo almost a half century before, this research shows the differences of the two events from three dimensions, namely, city planning, economics, and social problems such as relocation.

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Students remodeled old dwelling units variously. This variety showed the possibility for the multi-purpose use of dwelling units, and it will become one technique for the refurbishment of existing housing estates. Japan Housing Corporation constructed the RC rahmen frame residential buildings, mainly in the second half of the 1960's. The purpose of this research is to confirm the possibility to utilizing those old residential buildings as house stock. And the assumption that the RC rahmen frame residential buildings in those days ware very useful was suggested. It is useful for recycling-based society to develop a system for reusing construction debris.

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This paper explores sustainable living environments for elderly Japanese. Research results from two communities for seniors, M town and S villa, are analyzed. Both living situations have merits and demerits. The authors suggest that combining the merits of each would create an ideal living situation. Among the good points are: cooperation among community members, professional managers with autonomous decision-making power; full welfare support for the residents; residents can live with members of various ages of seniors and so create and maintain a supportive community; facilities provided by the management enable residents to pursue their hobbies and engage in volunteer activities.

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This paper aims to reveal the different types of failure modes of existing timber housing from the disaster reports of past earthquakes in Japan. The number of existing timber housing is also investigated through onsite investigations. From the results of the recent earthquake disaster investigation operated by the authors, the relationship between the failure mode, year of construction and the composition of timber houses is discussed.

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This paper focuses on the Korean Community as a Socially disadvantaged area in Japan. Especially we surveyed about urban community(Nisinari ward, Osaka city and local community(Wakayama prefecture). We have surveyed total 30 old comer Koreans to get the life history data using interview survey method and especially regarding the urban community, we have tried a questionnaire survey. From these results, we can find out that Korean community have a big difficulty that are suffering from ageing and dwindling population and decrepit housing. Based on these results We suggest for the area regeneration of Korean community, they need to scale up of community based organization for the service delivery and try to making community based business program.

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This paper empirically clarifies effects and problems of application of municipalities’ ordinance about development permission. As for article 34-12 of City Planning Law, effects about rationalization of development permission procedure are recognized but as for 34-11, enough effect, which was the keeping of village population, can’t be acquired. In some examples much more developments than initial forecast have been occurred by deregulation of 34-11 ordinances. To set appropriate area-divisions and building uses for permitted developments along development pressure level in each city is necessary. And public involvement for area-division is also important in order to train up mutual relation with administrative sector against maturity of villages in near future.

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This study focuses on Programa Comunitario de Mejoramiento Barrial (PCMB), a community-based program that runs a comprehensive set of cultural, health, environmental, educational and employment projects within a low-income neighbourhood in Mexico City. Researches were conducted with 4 cases which are adopted by PCMB in 2007, regarding relationship between the grass-roots movements prior to the adoption and the PCMB process in each case. In conclusion, 1) the PCMB program contributes to improving public space and infrastructure, meeting local needs flexibly; 2) the PCMB program works more effectively with prior grass-roots movement.

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In this study, there is it for the purpose of making the basics of housing plan document that considered snow processing from relations of snow removing labor and the dwelling unit placement. I analyzed ”the quantity of the snow removing” of the resident and relations of ”the snow-removal work”. As a result, many inhabitants did not grind removed snow in a site, and it confirmed it to do removed snow on a road.

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The characteristic of Kon, Wajiro　”Nihon No Minka”(1922) is　”common” houses featured in it. In this research， we restored and revisited the sites where they have been remaining， so that we could analyze the factor and transformation of private houses for about 90 years. In conclusion， we could acquire some perceptions in the following. 1) The term of investigation performed by Kon was divided into some different parts. In addition， there were the methods of selecting houses. 2) The transformation of houses has been affected by the policy of national land reform. 3) There’re some common factors caused from situations in each houses. 4) The survival of houses is connected with situations whether owners have stayed or not.

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In the metropolitan suburban areas, there are many non urban-infrastructure districts where have narrow lanes and are mixed in build environments and agriculture land. It is difficult to develop these areas as while area project such as land readjustment action. So, this study try to research and propose for improve these areas by improving small area units and to widen narrow lanes in the enclosure unit spaces of streets, referring to Design Guidelines for residential areas in UK.

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This study aims to understand architectural and cultural characteristics of the wooden long house among the Pako, who are one of ethnic minority group living in the mountains of deep south area of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and classified into the Mon-Khmer language group. They are scattering around the border area between Lao and Vietnam. This final report is based on the field survey conducted among them in that area. The issues at point toward the result will be as follows; 1) architectural characteristic of the longhouse, 2) socio-cultural characteristic on longhouse that allows to be ”high-density residential” and ”living together with the members of many households” inside the longhouse. By studying that, we would like to aim at a certain contribution to the study of wooden houses in mainland Southeast Asia.

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In this study, focusing on the Japanese style houses which were constructed as owned house on Qing-Tian street in Japanese colonial period, the interview for the Japanese who had lived there in the period and the Taiwanese residents who are living in the houses was conducted. In addition the more the additional interview and measurement to confirm the consideration by them were conducted and the transformation of these houses are analyzed from Japanese colonial period to present.

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This study aims to analysis TOKONOMA as the original design of Japanese houses, of upper classes’ and common ones’. In the imperial palace and Edo castle, Itadoko was used in the official area and Tatamidoko was in the private area. In the imperial palace, Tatamidoko had expanded from 18th century, while in Edo castle, Itadoko had been sticked to use in Ohiroma until the end of in the mid 19th century. On the other hand, in common houses, each local area had own tendency of place and specification based on the comparison with their ancestor worship and guest service.

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We reported the field research to investigate unoccupied houses in Imai-Cho, Kashihara-City, Nara. Physical monitoring of unoccupied houses is carried out from both view point of evaluation of present structural characteristics in strength and anti-seismic efficiencies, and view point of consideration of environmental relations in deterioration to temperature and moisture conditions. In addition, we did hearing investigation to holders of unoccupied rent house. We consider the efficient housing maintenance way to preserve structural healthiness in unoccupied wooden houses in long-term durations and, and the way of the management that houses had utilization.

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This study aims to understand 1) the situation of assistance for domestic violence survivors by non-profit organization in Japan, 2) the case study of Kanagawa Prefecture which utilizes welfare to assist DV survivors who are homeless. After the establishment act on the prevention violence and the protection victims the partnership between the public sector and non-profit organization has been created. However many non-profit organizations protect survivors for free and support their housing problem by themselves. In Kanagawa prefecture the roles of non-profit organizations, prefecture and city are clear, and a common assistance system is established. Many survivors can’t be independent because of mental illness even though they live on welfare.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the role of physical therapist in house adaptation for elderly. The questionnaire survey intended for the elderly who executed the house adaptation, and the method was the realities and consciousness survey concerning the house improvement intervention of the physical therapist in the whole country. As a result of the main enumeration the physical therapist respectively having a clear specialty became clear with the occupational therapist in the motion analysis in that case and the aspect concerning the activities of daily living though it was common.

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This study aims to find out the design of the rebuilding public housing that communication among neighbors is not lost easily. The survey was implemented at the Koori Danchi housing development. The main result that we obtained is as follows. 1) Their communication among neighbors has decreased though they increased the number of acquaintances than before. There are 12% senior citizens who feel that it is lonely. 2) It is guessed that the chance that the resident meets by chance having decreased is related to a decrease in their communication among neighbors.

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To maintain the condominium in good condition is indispensable for the adequate management. The manager is selected among many condominium unit owners. What rights and obligations they have to do so in the long term? And what will become of the condominium when the lifetime is over? These questions are not necessary solved in Japan. This research aims to consider these questions by comparing the condominium law in some foreign countries. And we will recommend about the most desirable condominium law in Japan.

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Semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) such as di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) have caused not only chemical sensitivity but also asthma. SVOCs in indoor air exist in the form of a single molecule (gaseous phase) and adsorbate on airborne dusts (particulate phase) because of their low vapor pressures. However, their partitioning method was not well-established. This study attempted to quantify the partitioning of DEHP in gaseous and particulate phases using a diffusion tube by generating airborne Kanto loam dusts with an ultrasonic atomizer. As a result, it was suggested that DEHP vapor could be adsorbed on the surface of airborne Kanto loam dusts in the manner of Langmuir-type adsorption isotherm under the specific conditions.

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The objective of this study is to classify configurations of the traditional house’s openings by its related regional wind and to simulate the airflow in contemporary houses using CFD analysis. From the investigated traditional house plans it is considered that the configuration and azimuth direction of the openings related to each regional wind condition. Those of the openings were classified into 6 types in ground floor and second floor respectively. Modeled contemporary houses were analyzed by CFD from the viewpoint of indoor airflow and CFD analysis confirmed the significant correlation between averages of opening ratio and indoor airflow.

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About the fixtures construction of the wooden house, we performed spot investigation with ”every share photography evaluation law”that we developed originally. Based on findings, we inspected it about the execution rationalization technique of the flooring. As a result, rationalization superiority was found by flooring precedent execution by the skeleton infill structure. We clarified a change of the use frequency about tools and nails, others. In addition, we specified the rate of operation of the construction spot and the change factor.

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To promote using domestic lumber, this paper proposes new wooden house building system, which uses metal joints to make coupled beam, and test its effect in 2 ways. First, from the interview with groups and companies in each level of wooden distribution system in Tamba and Sasayama area, this paper shows the each level’s problems and how effective the new building system is. Second, from the bending tests, this paper shows the Structural performances of proposing coupled beam. And from these 2 results, this paper shows how to improve this wooden house building system.

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The objective of this research is to develop a new construction method for masonry load-bearing wall which are built up of unburned soil blocks. First, the effects of various additives on compressive strength of consolidated soil were investigated and then the optimum conditions concerning mix proportion, molding and curing were determined against the soil blocks containing magnesium oxide which had much higher effect than the others. Next, the shear strength was examined by using mockup of masonry wall with projections and hollows on horizontal face. Finally, soil blocks were manufactured at a real construction site by using soil obtained from surroundings and then the feasibility of this method was verified.

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This paper evaluates the living culture within the low houses, and indicates the refurbish system that realize the sustainable living though a social experiment conducted on pre-war built Osaka row houses. 1) A transition of inhabitants and the record of house repair process are explained, and the values and the problems are pointed out about the living life in the row houses. 2) New seismic retrofit methods suitable for traditional wooden houses were executed for the first time, and they were proven practical and effective. The project also could show that rental house management would have chance to continue. 3) Through the repair and refurbishment process, the original quality of the row houses was succeeded.

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This paper explores the relationship between divorce and housing in Japan, with particular reference to gender and socio-economic status. In Japan where the housing policy system has explicitly focused on encouraging family home-ownership, divorce has meant significant disadvantages in terms of housing conditions. Moreover, housing trajectories of divorced individuals have also differed according to gender and socio-economic status. The paper concludes with examining the implications of divorce for housing and social policies.

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In this research we aim to clarify how the people in the middle ages and early modern ages had comprehended Shinden-zukuri of ancient time and constructed their ideal image of living space, through the study on The Tale of genji during the middle ages and early modern period. Kacho - yosei attempted to study the restoration of Shinden-zukuri in the 15th century but contains the architectural understandings of the middle ages. The drawings of Rokuj yo - in the 15th and 17th century attempted to draw the Shinden, but failed to draw the correct formation of Shinden-zukuri. Gengo - zushou and Genji - Ruijyushou produced by Matsuoka yukiyoshi in the 19th century enabled the visual restoration of Shinden-zukuri by using Uramatsu Kozen 's study.

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This paper describes the histories and outlines of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method for buildings that have been researched and developed by the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), Building Research Institute and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport since 1990. Thereafter , Streamlined LCA tool linked to the scoring system of Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) using AIJ-LCA Tool was developed and widely used . Then, recent situation of Life Cycle Car bon-Minus (LCCM) Housing Assessment Tool was repotted, that was described in the road map in order to achieve the mid-term (2020) and long-term (2050) green house gases reduction targets based on the Global Warming Prevention Basic Law Bill in March 2010.

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Residential energy reduction is expected as one of effective measures against global warming in Japan. The situation of residential energy conception and the applicability of C02 reduction measures in dwellings are Presented in this paper. The residential energy consumption per household has gone to peak out after 1995 and it is seemed to start to decline. Various energy supply systems and efficient water heat pump water are being introduced gradually such as photovoltaic power systems, solar water heaters, fuel cells and heat pump water heaters. Not only technology in1provements but also incentive policies are important to accelerate their introduction.

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The low energy houses that were built first in Hokkaido, have had important effect to wooden houses in Japan. But, the energy consumption in Japanese houses is increasing now and the people do not feel comfortable in the houses. Looking over clearly the process of the development of technique in low energy houses, I study the plan for accelerating the improvement of Japanese wooden houses.

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A house is responsive to its environment both socially and physically. A variety of climates and local communities created unique housing style all over the world. In the temperate climate like in Japan, indoor spaces have been designed open to the outside traditionally, however they seem to becoming isolated from the smrolll1dings after popularization of air conditioning system. On the contrary, the idea of passive design is to make indoor spaces responsive to the outside environment. The states of the art of responsive design are mentioned and possibility in future is discussed.

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