The Front-access dwelling units are classified into eight categories, and the relationship between the frontage and the length-to-length ratio of the living room is shown. Moreover, It is also shown that shadow corridor areas are formed near the entrances to each room, and that where people sit on a daily basis is related to the solar radiation that penetrates into the unit.

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In the Ohya area of Utsunomiya, Tochigi, the proximity of work and residence has been practiced up to the present. In this area, quarrying and agriculture have been practiced, and we investigated the characteristics of life styles and spaces where people live in close proximity to these industrial sites. It is hoped that the development of the area will retain the characteristics of both residential areas and places for tourism and industry. In light of this, we proposed a mobile work space and bedroom as a work and residence sharing space by considering fluid ways of working and living.

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In this study is clarify the formation process of place in normal times and under COVID-19 from the family narratives in home hospices. The methods are an interview survey with residents' families and managers and a questionnaire survey with managers. The results are bellows. (1) From case study at the terminal period under normal times and COVID-19, a family place was formed in the home hospice if it was a short-term. The family recognized it as an extension of the parent’s own room at home. (2) Home hospice allowed family visits and witnesses during the terminal period even under COVID-19.

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This study is a survey of architecture with walls made of cob construction. As a result of the investigation, the relationship between the use and distribution area of the shed and the composition of the cob wall section was confirmed. Material tests on the samples showed that they were strong enough to support the vertical load of the building and that the grain size tended to be different between stone and earth piles. Environmental measurements showed that the temperature and humidity of buildings with earthen walls tended to be more stable compared to the outside temperature.

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The environmental cognition of residents is an important factor in the formulation of sustainable tourism and regional strategies. The analysis of the relationship between the environmental cognition of residents and the spatial characteristics has not progressed. In this study, we selected a village in Ishigaki Island that has a rich history and accumulated efforts for regional development, and analyzed their spatial characteristics, with the aim of clarifying the relationship between them and environmental cognition. As a result, we pointed out several relationships between spatial characteristics and landscape values, as well as between landscape values and place attachment.

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「誰もが安心できる居住を目指して」 本実践活動は，住戸の三割以上が空室となり床面積1000 ㎡のスーパーが撤退した築40 年以上を経た公的住宅で，誰もが安心できる居住の実現を目指した地域拠点活動を模索した。空き住居の一部は70 戸の分散型サービス付き高齢者向け住宅に転換され，スーパー跡はホール，カフェ，物販，相談，リサイクルなどの地域生活拠点に改装された。連続健康講座の開催やペット・ロボットの導入実験，地域拠点施設や催事の検討，居住者アンケート調査，地域の資源探しなどを通して，誰もの暮らしを支える地域拠点活動を模索した。実践を通して地域拠点施設に関わる多様な人々とそれらに対応した地域生活拠点施設の生活支援機能の蓄積の必要性が推察された。

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Making public spaces a hub for community revitalization using community platform In Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki City, a typical suburbian residential area of Tokyo, we developed a community platform to gather local activities and then visualized them in an outdoor public space in an event called Machikado Share. By making community actors and activities visible to each other and to the public this way, mutual understanding and respect among them as well as activation of their activities have occurred (emergence). The formation and operation of a community platform and its bearers (platformers), and its operation methods were confirmed to be vital. This is promising as a method for community revitalization.

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This paper studies the modernization of houses and people’s yearning for them through the analysis of six houses by women clients and the way they were presented in the women’s magazines in the interwar Japan. The houses could be categorized as Japanese or International Modernist or mixed style, but they mostly eliminated the feudalistic aspects of the traditional houses and reflected the clients’ lifestyle as independent women. Some houses were presented with the images of clients, and provided actual spaces for their female circle, which nurtured a sense of community among them.

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Prefabrication techniques and modern amenities were envisioned and designed in various ways in early-twentieth-century Japan. Designing a novel, walled house with prefabricated—rather than conventional post-and-beam—construction was viewed as a way tocreate an ideal new residential lifestyle. The introduction of electrical, kitchen, and heating equipment brought to life the image of modern comforts within the walled spaces. This article ends with a re-examination of modernist architects’ endeavors to apply Trocken Montagebau (drywall construction) in the 1930s, demonstrating that these served as an impetus to integrate the design of prefabricated structures and equipment.

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This study aims to evaluate the future scenario of Old New Town from the perspective of walkability. The methods were multi-scale analysis, scenario planning, and web-based questionnaire. As a result, this study clarified the possible future scenarios of the Old New-Town, which are the new-mobility scenario, the health-care scenario, the living-near-relatives scenario, and the work-from-home scenario. Besides, this study clarified the effectiveness of combining the new-mobility scenario with the health-care scenario and the living-near-relatives scenario, according to the regional characteristics based on the walkability score.

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This study aimed to analyze the role of the “middle-stay” program, which allows elderly people to stay in a residential facility for a few months, in the smooth transition to a new home during their old age, focusing on the case of the “wintering plan” in a cold region. The wintering plan is positioned as a transitional form of residence when the elderly moves from home to a facility. It became clear that elderly people change their residence in stages, successfully combining home and medical facilities with institutions.

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Throughout questionnaire and interview to 20 Chinese elderly people in Japan and field survey in their homes and neighborhood, the actual conditions of their home environment, neighborhood environment, social environment were clarified. In addition, by the mail questionnaire to the day-service-centers that can provide Chinese service in Japan, the nationwide conditions of operation and use were grasped. Furthermore, through observation surveys at one day-service-center for Chinese elderly in Japan and one day-service-center for Japanese elderly, the users’ daily life, using styles and the spatial characteristics were compared and architectural planning about nursing care facilities for the Chinese elderly were obtained.

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To predict the occurrence of airborne algae, which is the main cause of soiling on exterior walls, and to establish a sensing index, measuring the equilibrium moisture content of the algae, improvement the growth prediction model, research the soiling evaluation experiment were conducted. As a result, it was clarified that the algae population on exterior walls exposed to rainfall increases significantly compared to exterior walls that are not exposed to rainfall, due to the moisture supply from rainfall and the algal moisture absorption and desorption properties. Furthermore, it was shown that the human perception of soiling is strongly correlated with the area ratio and the color difference of the soiling, and that when these two factors increase, people evaluate the degree of soiling to be large, making it possible to quantitatively indicate the perception using physical indicators of soiling.

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Focusing on the industrial complex area damaged by the 2011 Chao Phraya River floods, this study's goal is to determine long-term changes in social vulnerability of industrial park communities, identify challenges, and provide remedies for building sustainable industrial complex area. Statistical data, questionnaires, and interview surveys were applied from both macro and micro viewpoints. From prefecture to community level, the research revealed gaps and obstacles, and a prescription for future disaster preparedness was provided as a reference.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the links with the local community and the characteristics of spatial cognition of visually impaired people with intellectual disability. The following was revealed. 1) They have various ways of interacting with other people inside and outside the local community through the program of the facility for persons with disabilities. 2) In the facility, they choose a place to actively communicate with others. 3) The spatial grasping behavior changes over time and affects the way they interact with others. They obtained various opportunities from facility that lead to the realization of Well-being.

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More than 15,000 pre-existing housing units were provided as temporary housing to secure accommodation for disaster victimsfollowing the 2016 kumamoto earthquake. The aim of this study is to comprehend the relocation status and assess the influence of thenumber of private-rental housing units on the relocation. In Kumamoto city, more than 6,000 private-rental housing units were left over,so more than 95% of the citizens move into private-rental housing inside the city. However, in other municipalities, it became clear thatrelocation outside municipalities was occurring because of the limited number of private rental housing units.

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To maintain buildings in good condition and to make them a stock of society, it is essential to plan and implement a regular maintenance management plan. In cold climates, the temperature difference between the inside and outside of a house is large, and moisture damage is likely to occur, which can cause serious problems if proper maintenance and management is not carried out. In this report, we made a flow chart of the deterioration of highly insulated houses by investigating the actual conditions of problems and maintenance and organized the corresponding inspection and maintenance methods. In addition, we examined how maintenance management affects the life cycle cost of a house from construction to sale and distribution.

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Weaving machine production techniques derived from the only Bingo join tatami facing craftsman This paper examines the traditional weaving techniques of tatami facing called‘nakatsugi,’ which originated in the Bingo region and was independently developed and derived. The Bingo region’s unique‘nakatsugi’ weaving technique is key to the continuation of the Bingo rush facing. A field survey was conducted to record the weaving machine production process followed by Junpei Kitayama, who is the only manual join weaving craftsman, and another manual center-jointed weaving machine was made. Production drawings such as detailed 2D drawings, 3D assembly drawings, and 3DCG were also created to document the weaving machine production and weaving technique.

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Direct participatory research on planning, renovation works and investigations of public housing. In November 2019, we received the proposal from the city of Nagasaki to live students of “Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science” into municipal housing. We suggested that some academic surveys and research should be done by us beforehand, and the results should be applied to the housing project. Those were “understanding the needs of the elderly and the child-rearing generation in their daily lives“ and ”safety in natural disaster”. This plan was certified as one of the city's priority projects, and carried out with the renovation planning, renovation works and investigations.

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