Urakawa Bethel is the community of mentally ill people in Hokkaido and is well known as an advanced example of livelihood transition from institution to local society. This study aims to clarify the changes of inclusiveness in their group homes and community with the transition. The conclusion is that inclusiveness has been remained in their community and partially expanded into local society. The new theme after the completion of transition is to address the members’ ageing and to expand inclusiveness more into local society.

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Based on the practices of the Odaka Reconstruction Redesign Center in Odaka Ward, Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture, this study examines land use methods and the process of building them in the areasa affected by the nuclear power plant accident, using the three districts of downtown, Otomi and Kawabusa. There is an interrelationship between “platforms,” which are local characteristics, “actors” as the center of activities, and “recipes,” which are specific land use methods. External supporters may be able to play a necessary role in this process by understanding the tripartite relationships that are unique to each region.

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This paper focuses on a small green space called “Telajakan” in Bali to reveal its public nature. Telajakan is characterized by the diversity and functions of planted plants. The residents of the houses owning telajakan are responsible for its management, but non-residents can also use the plants. Referring to the discussion of “legitimacy” in the commons theory, this paper uses Penglipuran village, being developed as a tourist destination, to show that the socio-ecological layeredness and the public nature based on it may be reduced due to the impact of marketization, even though the involvement in the telajakan is expanding.

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In this research, we investigated the completion reports of Shimizu-gumi which was one of the representative construction companies before World War II in Japan. The objective of this research is to clarify the actual conditions of building constructions and production systems of that era from the aspect of those of ‘un-historic’ buildings. Moreover, literature researches about the industrial situations and material production systems in that age were conducted, and compared with the analysis on the completion reports.

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We aim to clarify the dwelling style in the Gosiwon dense areas and to present an urban residential model of Gosiwon in Seoul, Korea. Based on the results of our previous research, we considered the characteristics and the relationships by the state of usage of Gosiwon and surrounding facilities in 6 Gosiwon-dense areas on this study. Firstly, we conducted a questionnaire survey for the managers and users of Gosiwon. Secondly, we confirmed the characteristics of the location and distribution of Gosiwon and surrounding facilities in 6 Gosiwon-dense areas in Seoul. Finally, we summarized the results as identified through this study.

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Drift-pinned joints with steel inserted plate are commonly used in wooden buildings, and it is known that these kinds of joints are failed by splitting at earthquakes, but there is no authorized method to estimate their strength. In this paper, the evaluation method of splitting strength on the joints was proposed, and verified its validity by experiments. The results showed the method can estimate the splitting strength with less than 30% accuracy. However, there also remained the issue that the strength was underestimated at the joints with a thickness of 120 mm, although it was on the safe side.

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This study examines the way of utilization and regeneration of suburban public housing estates of regional cities, focusing on the regional characteristic of city structure and housing market. The material and the interview surveys are conducted in three city regions with the cooperation of housing supply and management agents. The directions of suburban public housing estates will be: 1) playing an important role as the core in shrinking area; 2) improving the quality of housing and estate to meet young people’s housing needs; and 3) managing housing with flexible operation to properly utilize local resources.

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This paper aims to promote conservation of a nearly 100-year-old dormitory building, Meikei-ryo (Toshima City, Tokyo)，designed by Koichi Sato. It shows its uniqueness and importance through revealing origins and organization of planning, the façade and structural design. It deals with existing researches, contemporary literature, and firsthand materials such as drawings and archival documents. It also provides a new insight to studies of mechanism of deterioration of reinforced concrete and old construction practices through observation of the structure and analysis of compressive strength measurement. It offers conservation strategies with the result of the earthquake resistance check.

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In this paper, focusing on “reconstruction of homes” in tsunami-affected areas, we estimated the number of self-reconstructed households by municipality and analyzed the relationship with tsunami damage. In addition, we evaluated the projects regarding reconstruction of homes, and analyzed changes in population and number of households by district/administration. As a result, the repairing contributed to the self-reconstruction rate. Large-scale projects with longer construction periods tend to have more vacant spaces, resulting in higher unit costs of project costs. Where the population has declined significantly in six months, the population has declined more in eight and a half years.

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This study was aimed to investigate sleep in evacuation shelter-analogue settings in autumn using blankets for disaster relief. Subject experiment was conducted to examine the sleep variables using actigraphy and environmental conditions in the gymnasium and the subjects’ bedroom in their houses. The subjects completed questionnaires regarding their thermal sensation, comfort sensation, fatigue, and subjective sleepiness before and after the sleep. Moreover, the young healthy students took part in another sleep study of two nights in the experimental house while the air-conditioner was on or off in the bedroom. The sleep quality and thermoregulatory responses were evaluated and compared between air-conditioner and non air-conditioner.

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The present study proposes an inclusive approach for the sustainability assessment of vernacular constructions. It focuses not only the availability of construction materials by resource management, but also considers life style such as land use, working style, food habitat etc.. The proposed approach is applied to Launaura in Tanna island of Vanuatu, looking at vernacular and local houses. The study demonstrates that the sustainable constructions of such houses encounter difficulty if the community relies on internal resources. However, it is possible to alleviate the exploitation of currently unused forest by increasing cash income gained from labor work outside the village.

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Naoya-Shiga, Saneatsu-Mushanokoji and Muneyoshi-Yanagi are known as core member of Shirakaba-ha. In Taisho-era, each of them lived in the area of Lake-Teganuma, around the same time. Some artists visited or moved to this area thus this community is represented “Abiko-colony”. In this study, I have three objectives. I will collect and organize the drawings and pictures of respective houses to complement living environment at that time and trace the change of architectural style to evaluate its importance in Japanese modern architecture. Furthermore, I will carry out the new project that aims to protect and utilize these houses as historic landmark.

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This study focused on the hybrid access type disaster public housing in the Great East Japan Earthquake, and analyzed restoration of the commonality of victims from the view of reflexivity due to the characteristics of their previous dwelling. The common space and the buffer space have key roles to meet the needs of victims who want to interact while keeping a sense of distance. The stability of habitation is important in order to functioning the common space through the arrangement and circulation of the space inside the house.

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Targeting on the renewal efforts in four cases of Disaster Prevention Building Blocks (DPBB, BOUSAI-KENCHIKU-GAIKU) in Chubu region, this paper reveals their current situation and features based on our field survey, focusing on the objectives,players, management, and architectural modifications of those efforts. Although the administrative support, initiatives and local commercial potential vary from case to case, the presence of key persons who play a leading role, multifaceted administrative support, the small size and low rents of DPBB work as favorable conditions.

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New share house create with a single mothers It is quite meaningful to provide supports necessary for setting up a base for new life during the most arduouse period immediately before and after divorce . In fact, most residents have gone to the next step getting a job. In relation to problems in their life such as suffering in working place and child rearing, especially, at the time when they have to work overtime and got ill as well as implementation of events such as cleaning of shared space and dining , however, one-sided service of supports alone may not resolve such problems. And so, the current practical activity set a goal to figure out and practice a framework to satisfy needs of residents by providing opportunities to them to voluntarily have their say about what was needs.

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Optimization of part of or the entire abandoned private lands for public purposes. This project aims to improve the living environment at Kaida Village in Kunimi Town, Fukushima Prefecture, by promoting the public use of private lands abandoned. A series of surveys has found that Kaida village has a number of intermediate lands between private and public due to the decrease in the sense of possession of private lands by their owners and due to the trust amongst village residents. This project resulted in utilizing two private lands through the creation of the private land utilization area map.

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