Lists of researches in Master’s and Doctoral Program
Cooperative chairs
Regenerative Preservation of Built Environment
- Seismic risk management of buildings and urban spaces
- Performance based design of buildings
- Regenerative preservation of existing buildings
Architecture and Environmental Engineering
- Semiotic Study on the Design of Architectural and Urban Space
- Design Methodology of Architectural and Urban Space
- Study on Behavior and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Environment
- System Theory on Design and Evaluation of Human Environment
- Evaluation and design of lighting environments based on human visual recognition
- Evaluation and design of colors in human environments and their scientific basis
History of Architecture
- History of Japanese architecture
- History of Japanese cities
- History of human environmental design
- Ceremonial practices of Shinto shrines and buddhist temples
Construction Technology of Building Structures
- Development of economical retrofit schemes for existing rc buildings
- Establishment of performance based seismic design criteria for rc buildings
- Development of prestressed precast concrete building systems with very high durability
Architectural Environmental Planning, Architectural and Environmental Planning
- Design method and emergent idea
- Layout planning and the space design method solved with knowledge system
- Environmental planning, preference of residential place
- Urbanization and residential environment abroad
Architectural Environmental Planning, Building Environment Control
- Thermal environment and energy consumption in residential buildings
- Preservation of cultural heritage
- Durability of building materials and long-life buildings
- Comfort and health in sleeping and bathing environments
- Use of hygroscopic materials to provide for interior moisture buffering
- Prevention of interior moisture damage
Architectural Design and Theory, Architectural Design and Theory
- A study on the relationship between the conception of architectural space and the act of designing
- A study on the role and function of language in the process of design
- Conception of space and its generating process
- Curture and the concept of ruling space
- Genealogy of Spatial Imagination
- Dominant Concept of Space in Culture
Architectural Design and Theory, Architectural and Environmental Design
- Phenomenology of architectural space and place
- A ontological study on modern houses through analysis of the processes of form modifications
- A ontological study on modern architects through analysis of their words
Structural Engineering of Buildings
- Computer aided structural design of buildings
- Collapse analysis of building structures
- Seismic retrofit of historic structures
- Improvement of earthquake resistance and durability of buildings using high-performance materials
Architectural Construction Engineering, Architecture System and Management
- Computational geometry
- Optimization of architecture system
- Research on architecture system and management to make good building construction and environment
- International comparison of project management
Architectural Construction Engineering, Space Development and Structural Systems
- Development of high strength bolted connection for steel building structures
- Steel structural system assuring seismic performance by quality guarantee
- High-performance seismic structure enhanced by Dampers
- Optimization of Trusses and Shells
- Shape Analysis and Design of Tensegrities
- Design Approach by Utilizing Buckling Behavior
Built Environment Materials and Structural Systems
Housing and Environmental Design
- Design and Research on Housing and Living Environment corresponding Contemporary Society
- Development of Open Building Technology for Sustainable Society
- Cultural Landscape Conservation & Management Program
- Design and Research on New type of Welfare Facilities for the Elderly
- Project Practice of Creative Renovation of Housing and Living Environment
Architectural Environment Systems, Environmental Acoustics
- Sound space design based on wave theory
- Research on the sound field control
- Research on the sound space design for the acoustical communication (Social acoustics)
- Physical properties of the sound field and its subjective evaluation
- The development and application of acoustic materials and structures
Architectural Environment Systems, Building Geoenvironment Engineering
- Inverse Problem-Based Design Method for Building Structures under Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction
- Upgrading Method of Earthquake Resistance of Buildings via Compact Viscous Damper Systems
- New Upgrading Methodology of Earthquake Resistance of Buildings Via Out-framed Viscous Damper Systems
- Stiffness-Damping Simultaneous Identification of Building Structures and Foundations
- Construction of Design Earthquakes and Worst Earthquake Input Models
- Habitability Upgrade of Buildings via Visco-elastic Damper Using High-hardness Rubber
Disaster Mitigation Engineering, Earthquake Resistant Engineering
- Development of testing techniques for the simulation of failure behavior of building structures when subjected to large earthquakes
- Test and numerical analysis to trace the structural behavior up to complete collapse
- Eathquake responses and seismic design of building structures subjected to near-fault strong motions
- Response and design of base-isolated building structures subjected to combined horizontal and vertical ground motions
Disaster Mitigation Engineering, Structural Safety Control
Disaster Mitigation Engineering, Environmental Wind Engineering
- Wind flow and wind induced pressure on buildings
- Study on wind characteristics over urban area and wind flow around buildings
- Development of the prediction method of fire in city when wind blows
Space Safety Engineering, Earthquake and Tsunami Resistant Design for Structures
Space Safety Engineering, Urban Disaster Reduction Planning
- Development of a physically based urban fire spread model
- Estimation of hazard due to conflagration induced flow and analyzes of evacuation behavior of city residents in fire
- Development of a two-layer zone smoke transport model
Architectural Creative Engineering ( Innovative Collaboration Center )
- Risk Management
- Property Management
- Construction Management
- Technology Management
Global Environmental Architecture ( Hall of Global Environmental Research )
