Research Group
 Research Group
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Urban and Environment Planning
This research group is consisted of three laboratories, Urban Planning
and Design, Urban Disaster Protection Planning and Environmental City
Planning. Urban Planning and Design Laboratory has various researches, City
and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Community Planning, especially in
Hokkaido area. Approaching to not only theories of city planning but
proposing desirable cities and regions and having some projects of urban
planning and design is our important policy. Research Laboratory of Urban
Disaster Protection Planning (RL-UDPP) has been improving interdisciplinary
researches, which includes a wide range of sciences including seismology,
earthquake!! engineering, urban protection planning, and administrative
response management, social disaster science and medical disaster science.
Current research activities of Environmental City Planning Laboratory are as
follows; theory and history of city planning; planning policy, management
and sustainability; urban infrastructure policy; urban landscape and
historic cities; open space and green conservation; GIS for planning; urban
regeneration.
Urban Planning and Design
Professor KOBAYASHI
Hidetsugu , Associate Professor SETOGUCHI Tsuyoshi, Instructor OZASA
Takao
Our laboratory has various researches, City and Regional Planning,
UrbanDesign, Community Planning, especially in Hokkaido area. Approaching to
notonly theories of city planning but proposing desirable cities and
regionsand having some projects of urban planning and design is our
importantpolicy. Making project partnership with citizens and public sectors
iseffective approach for solving to urban problems. Otherwise, we
haveresearch projects with U.S. and Russian Universities.
Urban Disaster Protection Planning
Professor KAGAMI Hiroshi, Instructor TAKAI
Nobuo
Our research laboratory has conducted a variety of advanced research
studies related to disasters, involving undergraduateand graduate students.
The center has maintained a particular focus on earthquake disasters, since
its establishment in 1973. Ourinterdisciplinary research includes a wide
range of sciences including seismology, earthquakeĦĦengineering, urban
protectionplanning, and administrative response management, social disaster
science and medical disaster science. As to seismology, we havebeen
improving the methodology of seismic monitoring. We also have greatly
improved seismic disaster assessment techniques inconnection with earthquake
mechanism theory, ground amplification theory and various kinds of
vulnerability functions both from theseismological point of view and
earthquake point of view. By applying medical science in addition to
engineering perspectives, wehave increased the sophisticated of the
mitigation plans inclusive of work on human behavior and casualty occurrence
underearthquake conditions.
Keyword Seismic hazard assessment,
Seismic risk assessment, Seismic risk potential in dwelling, Human casualty
due to earthquakes, Protection against disasters
Environmental City Planning
Professor KOSHIZAWA
Akira , Associate Professor HASEBE
Masaki , Instructor NAKAMURA Akira
We engage in the study of policies in the fields of city planning and
social infrastructure improvement from the viewpoint of environment. We deal
with policies and practices in city planning and social infrastructure
improvement that are high-quality, beautiful and environment-oriented in the
age of inter-city competition of the 21 century. Our research fields are
wide and they include the following topics; urban regeneration and private
urban developments, the improvement of densely-inhabited old wooden
residential areas, land use control, preservation of green open space and
formation of green-rich towns, preservation and regeneration of
historically-formulated areas, planning for excellent housing development in
rural areas, green space functions of rivers and roads and nature
regeneration. The professor is advising the Japanese Government (Ministry of
Land, Infrastructure and Transport) as well as the cities of Sapporo,
Kamakura, Otsu and others on their policy making and planning. His
researches reflect these experiences of involvement with the actual
problems.
Transportation
and Traffic Systems Engineering
The purposes of our laboratory include systematic research and education
on the planning, construction, operation and management of transportation
infrastructures. Concretely, our research and education target the
construction and improvement of transportation systems, or fields to
establish transport planning harmonizing with the nature. To realize the
aim, materials used to construct, maintain and manage transportation
facilities and efficient operation and safety action for transportation
systems including roadway, railway, airline, waterway and so on are being
studied.
Transportation and Traffic Systems Planning
Transportation means movements of people. From this point,
"transportation" and "sensitivity of human being" are
keywords of studies carried out in our laboratory. For example, our studies
contain the user attitude surveys on traffic measures or traffic maintenance
plans, and the traffic assignment based on objective data to predict traffic
demand in road network. Furthermore, paying attention to automobile traffic,
the evaluations of drivers\' visibility and road conditions aiming at
improvements in road cursoriality are also carried out.
Keyword Transportation planning, Traffic
demand prediction, evaluation of drivers' visibility
Traffic Facility Engineering
Our laboratory has been conducted on research in bituminous material for
long years.Main subjects are evaluation of asphalt pavement, characteristics
of materials, durability for long life, contribution of organic matters in
air, damage of civil structures due to air pollution and wheel load,
construction management, especially on movement of aggregate in mixture
under moving wheel at high temperature. Rutting in asphalt pavement occurred
by movement of aggregate in mixture due to wheel load at high temperature.
Traffic Control and Safety Engineering
Our research areas target not only road relevant issues but also efficient
operation of railway, air, sea, and other transportations including measures
for their safety. With the aim of developing theories for the most optimal
transport control, we are progressing modeling of traffic behavior. Toward
realization of safe and reliable transportation, we also are studying
ergonomics particularly focusing on relations between transportation systems
and the users.
Keyword traffic engineering,
transportation planning, safety engineering, risk management, civil
engineering history
Architectural Planning
We, the staff of research group of architectural planning, putting the
themes of diversity, aging society, internationalization and global
environment of this 21st century into our field of view, are doing education
and research in the standpoint of architectural history and design, planning
and design of living environment and architectural morphology on the
subjects as follows: On housing, redevelopment of residential area,
person-environment design and conservation of historic quarters and
buildings for living environment and architectural space basing on various
neighborhoods and their living style, and as their fundamentals, on survey,
analysis, program and planning process.
Current research activities: history of modern architecture and city inJapan,
primarily in Hokkaido and recently in South Sakhalin in the period
ofJapanese ruling; architect, building engineer and organization in
Japanesemodern age; history of urban formation and residential district;
town designand citizenĦÇs activity based on historical properties;ĦĦmethod
andtechnology of preservation and reuse of historical buildings; theory
andcriticism of architectural design;
Keyword History of modern architecture,
History of urban formation, Architecturaldesign, Historical property,
Preservatio
Planning and Design of Living Environment
To realize the stable society and sustainable living environment after due
consideration for global environment, basing on the diversity of
neighborhoods including the aged and the disabled and their various living
style, we, the staff of laboratory of planning and design of living
environment, are doing education and research on two categories asfollows:On
environment and architectural space for living, basing on regional
characteristics of the cold and snowy northern area, the first is the
subject on creativity and spatial performance in planning and design of
livelihood space, the second is the subject on planning process including
basic analysis, maintenance and management.
Architectural Morphology
Current research activities: architectural planning, architecturalmorphology,
graphic science; space and form in architecture, townscapeplanning, spatial
and landscape simulation; environment-behavior studies,ecological approach
to environmental cognition, ethnomethodology in designprocess; fire safety
science, landscape engineering, heat island, forestfires.
Keyword graphic science, architecture and
urban space, human behavior,heat island, forest fires
Human Environment Engineering
The current research group of Human Environment Engineering comprises
three laboratories; Building Environment Engineering, Environmental
Ergonomics and Environmental System Research. We are devoted to
establishment of a modern methodology of planning and design methodology for
optimization of man-equipment-building environment system under the
constraints of maintaining human health and energy saving.
Architectural Environment
Current research activities: thermal analysis of building under
transientconditions; buoyant circulation in closed or open building spaces;
airflowdistribution in telecommunications equipment rooms; measurement
ofexchanging ventilation in multi-room buildings; effect of the sun
onbuildings; approaches to natural heating and cooling of houses
Keyword Architectural Environment,
Building HVAC, Enery Conservation, Thermal Environment Analysis
Environment Ergonomics
Current research activities in our laboratory are as follows. Heat transfer
phenomena around human body; Thermal sensation of human body; Utilizations
of latent heat storage for air conditioning systems; Ground source heat
pump; Cold energy utilization of snow; Evaluation of indoor thermal
environment under natural ventilation; Energy supply systems for
environment-friendly cities; Thermal characteristics of high-performance
heat exchange devices; Heat transfer phenomena under the microgravity field;
Environmental System Research
CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Air conditioning, heating and ventilation
system; Thermal energy storage; Heat pump; Renewable energy; Cogeneration
system; Indoor environmental system analysis and control; Thermal
characteristics of building; Physiological reactions in working environment
Keyword Heating, Ventilating and Air
conditioning, Indoor Environment System, Environmental Energy Engineering,
Renewable Energy
Environmental and Sanitary Engineering
Research Group of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering focuses on
sustainable management of water system in a watershed in education and
research activities. Research areas of emphasis include the management of
water supply and drainage systems; development of novel water treatment
technologies such as advanced water purification system and hybrid-type
wastewater treatment system; sustainable sanitation; and health risk
assessment and management technology caused by micro-pollutants.
Urban Water System Engineering
Professor TAKAKUWA Tetsuo, Associate
Professor FUNAMIZU
Naoyuki , Instructor TERAMACHI Kazuhiro
Research in Urban Water System Engineering Laboratory emphases the
sustainability of water system. Our current research includes: (1) Design
and operation of urban storm water drainage system; (2) wastewater treatment
and reuse; (3) sustainable sanitation and on-site differentiable wastewater
treatment system with dry toilet; and (4) integrated watershed management.
Keyword Integrated watershed management;
sustainable sanitation; onsite-differentiable wastewater treatment system,
urban drainage, wastewater treatment and reuse
Water Quality Control
Research in Water Quality Control Laboratory is concerned with developing
novel urban water metabolism that can solve the problems of water scarce and
water pollution. Our current research is focused in three areas: (1)
evaluation of new water treatment technologies such as membrane; (2)
development of hybrid wastewater treatment based on the combination of
physico-chemical and biological processes; and (3) analysis of structure and
function of microbial ecology using molecular biological methods.
Keyword water/wastewater treatment, urban
water metabolism, membrane, hybrid wastewater treatment, molecular
biological methods
Environmental Risk Engineering
Professor MAGARA Yasumoto, Associate
Professor KAMEI
Tasuku , Instructor OHNO
Koichi
Current research activities:measurement and risk assessment of
micro-pollutants such as dioxins,endocrine disrupters and trace metals in
drinking water and waters inthe environment (ex. river water), development
and improvement of riskmitigation technology on water treatment and risk
management of watertreatment plants and sewage treatment plants.
Keyword risk assessment , risk management
, micro-pollutants endocrine disrupters , drinking water quality
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