The aim of this study is to explore the specific factors that constitute the recovery process in housing, by using m-GTA method.

1. For identity, a category was generated: Adjustment between role-identity and Self-identity.

2. For environment and situation, three categories were generated: Life and work strain, Family relations and Self.

3. For off-job activities in housing, five categories were generated: Controlling activities, Psychological detaching activities, Relaxing activities, Mastering activities and Psychologically liberating activities.

4. For psychological well-being, three categories were generated: Autonomy and Environmental mastery, Purpose in life and positive relations with others, and Personal growth and Self-acceptance.

This study analyzes the enforcement status of repair work involving four specific items: exterior wall repair and waterproofing paint application, roof waterproofing construction, rainwater pipe replacement, and ceiling detachment measures, as well as seismic retrofitting of the entire building, based on a questionnaire survey for venues as theaters and concerthalls with capacities exceeding 800 seats. Specifically, using data on daylight hours and the number of earthquakes causing damage, the analysis was conducted by categorizing buildings according to deferred floor space and number of seats. Furthermore, the correlations among these factors were examined.

The aim of this research is to construct a multi-agent system that analyzes visual relationships between multiple humans, and to clarify the characteristics of spaces. This research is composed of four processes; 1) Construction of a multi-agent system for the analysis of visual relationships; 2) Simulation in a simplified virtual space and an actual architectural space; 3) Comparison with visibility graph analysis; and 4) Simulation using a multi-agent system that implements the distance between agents and human attributes. This research provides the framework for a new quantitative method in architectural planning based on visual analysis of space.

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate, through chronological analyses, how architects have been responding to the urban environment in the design of rental office buildings. Based on the review of design briefs of rental office buildings, urban-environment elements and building elements are identified, tabulated, and analyzed chronologically in two ways: Firstly, building elements are classified into several types and their transitions and relationship are analyzed ; secondly, the relationship between the environmental elements and building elements are analyzed.

This paper seeks to explore self-renovation processes in rural villages through a student-led vacant house renovation project in the Nobushina District, Nagano City. Using action research, it examines how connections between people and materials evolve during the renovation. The study reveals that the process extends beyond material procurement, fostering relationships with local residents and influencing renovation methods. It also highlights a shift in participant engagement, from passive collaboration to active decision-making. The findings suggest that integrating community interactions in renovation efforts is crucial for rural revitalization and the preservation of local knowledge.

This study focuses on closed school sites in Kyoto where hotel developments were undertaken by private developers, to determine what kind of “community considerations” have been taken into account during the planning process. The conclusions are as follows : Securing places for self-governing activities and disaster prevention functions were generally in line with community requests. Respect for local history and culture was given in the form of preserving school buildings and securing exhibition spaces. Contributions to the surrounding environment included consideration for adjacent properties, addressing local public safety and bicycle parking issues, and improving circulation etc.

This study aims to define ‘Obuse-like landscape’ perceived by residents and related populations using SD method analysis. It revealed that “Obuse-like” landscape patterns are common to both groups, which are landscapes in commercial areas and with buildings meeting the regulation, as well as landscapes with agricultural elements. Not “Obuse-like” landscape patterns are in new residential areas. Shared “Obuse-like” elements were the color and shape of buildings and greenery, as well as natural landscapes and farmlands, while “not Obuse-like” elements were the color and shape of houses that don’t meet the regulation. There were also some differences in elements between groups.

This study clarified the activities and other details of Sapporo Ekimae Atreet Area Management CO.

Since its establishment, the company has been able to develop its activities autonomously by securing independent financial resources and appropriate human resources.

The local community shared the recognition of the effectiveness and necessity of organized activities.

The fact that the administration consistently had the philosophy of establishing the company and led its implementation clarified the goals of the activities.

From the above, we discussed the importance of “democratic self-governing power” as a way of area management.

The amount of construction investment of India is the third largest in the world (2022), and the construction industry is expected to grow significantly in the future against the background of population influx to urban areas. Following the previous paper on exterior photo survey of architectural construction site in Delhi, based on the information from interviews with 60 construction practitioners at various levels in Mumbai’s building construction sites, this paper grasped the situations that shape the “organizational structure of project operation” and the “state of on-site operational technology” in light of industrial history and previous research.

This study clarifies job satisfaction characteristics by industry, age, and gender based on a survey of employees of Japanese specialty trade contractors (construction; n=500). In addition, we classified into five groups based on the characteristics of the response tendency by cluster analysis and examined the characteristics of each group and improvement measures. Finally, a structural model of the formative factors of work engagement is presented by SEM. From these results, it became clear that rewarding plays an important role in work engagement, and that measures should be taken especially for those in their 40s to 60s, in which rewarding is significantly low.

This article examines the trends in nail imports into Japan from the end of the Edo period to the early Meiji period through “COMMERCIAL REPORTS IN JAPAN” The following points become clear.

Nails, or Western nails, have been confirmed to have been imported into Nagasaki from Britain and others as early as 1866. In 1878, the price of imported nails fell below that of nails made by nail-rod. After that, Western nails and Japanese nails were used together mainly in the second half of the 1870s, and then in the first half of Meiji 20s, they switched to Western nails.

The paper discusses the establishment process of the complex building with residence in Dairen in the first half of the 20th century, focusing on advocacies and proposals, particularly two design competitions centered on complex building with residence during the incipient construction period. It classifies the prototype of these buildings as the ‘dwelling buildings’ constructed in the early 1920s on the Shinano-machi Street, which firmly established themselves and spread throughout the urban area of Dairen. The study shows that these buildings are related to urban development methodologies. Additionally, those buildings were commercialized as a part of modern commercial activities.

This study examined the formation of Takeo Satow’s architectural philosophy through 10 residential and commercial works from the prewar period.

He initially worked on “cultural housing.” After “Kizankaku Bookstore,” he experienced several “rationalist architectural designs,” and then worked on works with sloped roofs again. This did not mean that he shifted to "rationalist architectural designs,” but rather that he broadened the scope of his designs.

He stated that romanticism would continue forever in “new materials and new forms.” In “Mr. Ito’s House,” which was inspired by the “An,” he moved from romanticism to romantic nationalism with an awareness of Japan.

The New Regime Movements in the architectural community was an attempt to fundamentally reorganize the building administration and industry, led by building administrators who had been active in government offices since the Taisho era. Their motivation was the unbalanced situation during World War II, when they were oppressed within the administrative structure while expanding their profession into various policy areas. Under these circumstances, the claims of the technocracy movement gained their support and were applied to the architectural field, leading to the concept of controlling the entire building economy under the guidance of a centralized building administration.

This study reveals the characteristics of architectural publication activities of Yonejiro Yoshihara, publisher of Kenchiku-Shoin, beside clarifying the formation process of his publishing policy through his writings and editorial works.

1. Yoshihara had written before founding Kenchiku-Shoin, through the writings grown his publishing policy. That was to publish engineering books which would contribute to Japan’s national development then, and that to combine Western architectural culture with traditional Japanese wooden techniques.

2. Based on the policy, Yoshihara edited architectural books too, to contribute to the development of Japanese Architecture, especially to promote appropriate ordinary housing style for the modernizing Japan.

This study clarifies the relationship between the orientation of the urban structure and the qibla of mosques in the Old City of Herat. The survey includes the city wall, the crossroads, and 139 buildings, 104 of which are mosques. Analysis found that most mosques, including the Great Mosque, face west instead of southwest towards Mecca. Similarly, other historical buildings are oriented to the true azimuth, reflecting the urban structure defined by the city wall and crossroads. Mosques from the early Islamic period outside the Old City generally align with Mecca, making the westward orientation of the Old City mosques notable.

This study is the fourth report in a series analyzing the formation process of the Viale dei Colli residential district located in the hills of Florence during the 19th century. The first three papers examined the architectural conditions established for this district and identified differences between the plans and actual construction of each villa, focusing on aspects such as plot area, building area, separation distances, and road setback distances. This paper clarifies the construction sequence of each villa, analyzes the factors that led to the aforementioned layout, and discusses the effectiveness of the architectural conditions and changes in the villas.

This paper proposes a method for evaluating damage to high-rise buildings and elevator failures and their impact on urban dysfunction, based on the number of normal building users who are no longer active due to earthquake damage, assuming a Nankai Trough earthquake. Also, existing seismic ground motion simulation data based on an 83-case source fault model are used to evaluate urban dysfunction in the four central wards of Tokyo, and quantitatively summarized the results in terms of the impact on urban dysfunction due to the diversity of Nankai Trough earthquakes.