Summary：Recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake advocated for local community-led recovery, and many disaster recovery public housing units were planned to support this goal. Housing units were designed facing common spaces with the expectation of fostering residents’ communication inside and outside their homes. It has become clear that residents’ perceptions of mutual support influenced if these spaces functioned as intended by the designers. Whether or not they use common spaces, residents’ perceptions of mutual support affect their sense of autonomy, and as a result is reflected in their way of living in the housing.

With the aim of gaining knowledge that will help in the planning of future psychotherapy rooms in children’s homes, etc., the following two points became clear as a result of analyzing the current state of use of psychotherapy rooms and their spatial characteristics.

(1) The current psychotherapy rooms are able to cope with the problems of the building itself, such as soundproofing and space, although the interior decoration of the rooms is being addressed by the ingenuity of the staff in charge of psychotherapy.

(2) There are differences between psychotherapy rooms in children’s homes and infant homes.

This study explores MaMaHua de Shanpo [MMH] and Nanyu Village in Hebei Province, part of the Baimei Village initiative, a government-led program addressing rural revitalization and building stock utilization. By conducting on-site surveys and interviews with village secretaries and homestay owners, it identifies five key factors contributing to sustainable regional revitalization: (1) active villager involvement, (2) formation of connections beyond the local region, (3) the influential role of key figures, (4) development of multilayered and open relationships, and (5) preservation of local culture alongside job creation. These findings highlight practical strategies for advancing sustainable rural development through homestays.

The aim of this research is to clarify the hazards and disaster risks in nursing homes for the elderly to obtain insights for implementing disaster prevention and mitigation. 8,333 facilities were included in the study. In this study, hazard maps and facility information are utilized. The survey result indicate that approximately half of facilities nationwide are exposed to disaster risks such as floods, tsunamis, storm surges, or landslides. Furthermore, the findings suggest that 193 facilities could be submerged in the event of a flood, 33 in the case of a tsunami, and 34 in the case of a storm surge.

The purpose of this study is to identify the awareness of housing choice and the provision of services by residents in old age in two remote islands, Nishinoshima Town and Yamato Village. The survey methods was an all-inclusive questionnaire for residents aged for 40 years and above in these two areas.

1. The desired housing in old age tended to be an institution in Nishinosima Town and a home in Yamato Village.

2. Yamato Village had a higher sense of support for elders and residents than Nishinosima Town.

Almost two years have passed since COVID-19 was classified as a class 5 infectious disease in Japan. However, in elderly inpatient facilities, where residents are at high risk of developing severe symptoms, there is still a strong need to prevent mass infections. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to obtain knowledge that will lead to the prevention of the spread of COVID-19. The questionnaire surveys and visit surveys were conducted on nursing homes for the elderly in Kyoto City. Responses of COVID-19 cases were considered from a spatial perspective.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the presence and absence of plants and different plant arrangements in the indoor environment on intellectual productivity in knowledge creation. Brainstorming sessions characteristics of each plant placement condition. The desk placement was suggested to decrease intellectual productivity while increasing relaxation and facilitating multifaceted conversations. Floor placement was found to significantly reduce physical discomfort. Mixed was found to promote refreshment, relaxation, and intensive conversation.

This paper aims to clarify spatial characteristics of Japanese town houses (machiya) by using the extent of openness of interior space typologically. Classifying the extent of framing openness by posts and horizontal members and fixture openness by fittings and partition walls, various section types of the side of rooms are defined in case of 11 premodern machiya in Kinki district, eastern and western Japan. It is revealed that most values of fixture openness tend to be equal to or exceed that of framing openness in Kinki and western Japan, while various corresponding values of openness coexist in eastern Japan.

Road space reorganization is an effective tool for solving urban issues. This paper focuses on the Strand Aldwych project implemented in the City of Westminster, exploring pedestrian space design process and implementation system involving administrative organizations and local communities. By road space reorganization, the City of Westminster was able to expand pedestrian areas, improve air quality and reduce traffic accidents, effectively addressing urban issues. The realization of this project involved engaging stakeholders through workshops and public consultations, and a system that allowed administrative staff to be consistently involved in the project without transfers, thereby ensuring consensus with local communities.

The impact of the geographic conditions of the commercial area along the culvert on the shape and spatial experience of the vacant land were analyzed.

1. “Geographical conditions” specific to culvert commercial areas were researched and organized: (1) topography, and (2) changes from the river to the commercial district.

2. The patterns of characteristic forms of vacant land generated by geographic conditions were analyzed.

3. The use behavior of the vacant lots was researched, revealed that some irregularly shaped vacant lots accommodate different roadside activities compared to others and contribute to variety of activities along the street.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between the fiscal policy of the national government and the property disposal policy and the characteristics of the planned facilities of the national and local governments in the utilization of former U.S. military bases in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The results of the survey revealed that the national government uses the former base site as a site for a wide-area realignment of facilities and the local government uses the site for facilities needed by the community, and that the site continues to be characterized as an abhorrent facility.

The objective of this study is to understand the impression evaluation structure of eaves installation and activities, and the store owner’s awareness of the eaves space. As a result of the experiment, it was found that increasing transparency into the store was not important, and that displaying products, fixtures, and signboards was effective. Additionally, it is considered important to create facilities that allow both social activities and required/ optional activities to take place. In the future, it will be important to propose ways to utilize the eaves that roadside stores can take initiative in.

Decreasing tax income of local authorities because of the population decreasing and the increment of expenditure of welfare due to aging society give a pressure to municipalities’ budget. Solving this problem, researchers are referring to innovative scheme in overseas, which is Business Improvement Districts. However, there is few research focusing on BIDs in Japan though we need to enhance our understanding. Addressing this status quo, we reviewed 67 literatures related to BIDs. In conclusion section, I sum up current discourses about BIDs and state what we should refer to, which aspects we should research in the future.

This study aims to clarify the effectiveness and challenges of the building regulations of the Cliff Ordinance. A survey was conducted among architects' offices in the Awa region regarding the reconstruction of houses damaged by Typhoon No. 15 in 2019 and other storms. The results are as follows : 1) Within the regulated scope, the building regulations of the Cliff Ordinance are effective. 2) The building regulations of the Cliff Ordinance impose economic burdens and reduce livability, so they have a certain effect in restricting the location of buildings near cliffs.

This study aims to clarify the effects and problems of individual relocation projects in Kumamoto Prefecture by examining the actual status of relocation from four perspectives and to clarify their effectiveness and problems.

The effects of the project promoting relocation to reduce the risk of the scattered housing in advance and combining use of the prefectural project and the national project promotes the relocation of residents.

The problems are that local governments may have difficulty controlling land use, as the system’s limited targets may result in inadequate determination of relocation destination and regulation of source land.

In the architect selection for public buildings, it is important that appropriate discussions and evaluations take place in the jury. However, in Japan, there are few opportunities to discuss the mechanism and structure of jury’s discussions leading up to decision. In this study, we clarify how the structure of the debate changes depending on the judging format and jury composition. As a result, it was confirmed that when judging is open to the public, discussion points switch frequently and decisions are made early, and that it is hard to get inside information about the administration on the agenda.

This study aims to clarify the status of community contribution activities by local remodeling builders and the effects on the main business profit. A questionnaire survey was conducted. As a result, the implementation and effect tendency of the company attributes and activities attributes were confirmed. Through the structural equation modeling, it was confirmed that 1) the evaluation of the company leads to orders and referrals by customers, and 2) the building human network in the local community has the potential to affect the evaluation of the company and the company’s resources such as employee skills and satisfaction.

Features of study on the Micho and Yumemi in the main hall of Hasedera in the 11th and 12th century were analyzed on following 3 aspects.

1. According to “Genjimonogatari” and “Makuranosoushi”, pilgrims dissatisfied with the environment inside the main hall of Hasedera due to their position and the noise around them.

2. Micho was a shroud that covered the statue of Kannon. According to “Honcho Hokke Genki”, the incarnation of Kannon appeared from the Micho in a dream.

3. By creating many Buddhist stories, the spatial structure centered on the Micho was accepted by people.

This article discusses the Shuden of the Kamakura Kubo Residence as described in the Denchu-Ika-Nenchu-Gyoji. The layout of the rooms in the Shuden is as follows. Adjacent to the room called the Nami-no-Otsumato-no-Ma was the room called the Omuma, and adjacent to the Omuma was the room called the Omote-no-Otsumato-no-Ma. To the left of the Omote-no-Otsumato-no-Ma was the protruding area called the Ochumon. At the back of the Omote-no-Otsumato-no-Ma was the room called Junima. The main room of the Shuden was Junima, and the Omote-no-Otsumato-no-Ma was the room equivalent to the Kugyou-no-Ma.

This study aims to identify the location of the Miyoshi residence, which hosted the shogun in 1561, by analyzing related pla ce names in the Onari-ki records and early modern maps and geographical descriptions. The key findings are as follows:

1) The residence’s location can be narrowed down to Furuki-chou (present-day Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City).

2) This estimation is supported by commonalities between the changes in residence occupants in the late medieval period and town name changes in the early modern period.

3) The Miyoshi clan’s use of this residence was temporary, specifically for hosting the shogun.

The existence of Deidono and Shinden is known as main palaces for Ise Saiō in the Heian period. It is generally believed that these were built in the separate divisions with the formation of the grid plan. This paper aims to present an alternative theory, based on a review of literary sources and comparison with excavated remains in the imperial capital, that Deidono and Shinden, which form the Saiō’s palace, existed in the same compartment, and both were placed in close proximity to front and back.

Although “Bunto-gata” minka were identified in the prewar period, they were not widely identified in various places until after the war, and as research progressed, terms to describe “Bunto-gata” minka were coined in various places, such as “Nanto-gata”, “Futamune-zukuri”, “Kamaya-date”, “Betsumune-gata” and “Bunto-gata”.

OKAWA N. began to use the term “Bunto-gata” minka in earnest in March 1975. This term was coined with the aim of providing a unified name for these houses.

This study clarified the following by examining the outline of GMPC’s activities. As a background for activities, the viewpoint of “anonymity” was presented in order to advocate a position of fundamentally reconsidering architectural criticism through Ito’s recognition of popular theory, and the viewpoint of “anonymity” was presented as an important point of discussion in activities. was recognized inside. The planning concept for the unpublished magazine “Architectural Shunju” was based on a unique guideline: to discover architectural theory that is not bound by the existing framework of architectural criticism. The theme of their activities was the reorganization of architectural criticism.

Through the analysis of the historical building records in Kaichiro Usui’s own handwriting, measurement survey, trace survey, tree species identification survey, and coloring survey of the Basho’s Kokyo-duka “Hyochiku-an” in the precincts of Aizen-in, the oldest surviving work of Kaichiro Usui, the scope of his work and the order in which the records were prepared were clarified. The possibility of post-construction renovation was pointed out, and the style of his work was analyzed to reveal a part of his professional skills centering on design techniques.

Referential relationship of form in contemporary houses are analyzed based on the following three aspects.

1. Referential relationships between forms are divided into two categories: “integration”, and “contrast”.

2. Referential form is divided into three main categories: I. relationships between individual referential targets, II. relationships between units with reference relationships, and III. relationships where one referential target belongs to multiple relationships.

3. Domestic and international residential works from the 1970s to the 2010s were analyzed in terms of referential relationship of forms, and their diachronic trends we clarified.

This study aims to clarify the transition of the stone town during and after mining, case of Boshu stone in Nokogiriyama, Chiba. We analyzed the livelihoods, stone buildings, local activity organizations, old stone recycling projects, and stone utilizations in the stone town and described associations for each of these subject cases, baced on Actor-Network-Theory. We integrated these associations and described them in valley sections, and by identifying the areas during and after mining, we clarified the transition of the stone town in the Post-industrial society.

The effectiveness of “AED Taxi,” in which cabs equipped with AEDs in all of their vehicles go to the site of cardiopulmonary arrest, was verified for Chiba City, and simulations based on the location characteristics of six wards confirmed that the population coverage rate in four wards was well over 90% and that the other two wards would achieve a coverage rate of about 80%. The overlap of reachable areas by multiple units was verified, and it was found that the evaluation of the certainty of AED transport differed greatly among wards with the same level of population coverage.