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Research Division for Advanced Disaster Prevention on cities

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Overview

Director

Osamu TAKAHASHIProfessor

Affiliation
Department of architecture, Faculty of engineering
RIDAI

Comment

This research division is composed of exper ts of architecture, city planning and civil engineering. Stuffs belong to Faculty of Engineering and to Faculty of Science and Engineering, and School of International Fire Science. For many years, researchers in this division continue to develop regional researches, contributions to local communities, and regional exchanges with thick accumulation of their researches.We aim to create results to contr ibute the areal development of Kagurazaka and Sotobori area where is the home of Tokyo University of Science.

Fig. 1　Research field and partners
Fig. 2　“Sotobori-kagurazaka 7 images”, CKARD_TUS. April 2014
Fig. 3 　“Brought Close between Town and Sotobori” Proposal to connect town and Sotobori with a barrier-free deck, Sotobori Reconstruction Plan Symposium, CKARD_TUS, May 2014

Research Content

Based on the theme of “Disaster Prevention in Cities Built on Advanced Systems”, building cities which enable recovery, maintenance and sustain their whole cultures and functions on themselves, by interconnecting the research results of the three fields: city culture, city performances and city planning.

Objectives

Respond to the cityʼs complex environment and lives caused by the significant development of technology, by bringing together wisdom for various fields of architecture. Explore the Visions for Tokyo as a metropolis in the 21st century from the Kagurazaka and Sotobori (outer moat) areas, where Tokyo University of Science locates. How to prepare modern cities should against incoming unprecedented disasters.

Future Development Goals

Building up theories for city planning with the sustainability and resilience against disasters.Renewal of infrastructures in cities by merging various perspectives and knowledge of the architectural fields: materials, structures, planning, design, and history, into the primal purpose, disaster prevention.

SDGs

Members

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Name Job Title Affiliation
Osamu TAKAHASHI  Director / Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Hirohisa　ITO Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Kei-ichi IMAMOTO Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Momoyo GOTA  Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Kaori ITO  Professor Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology
Hideyuki  KINUGASA  Professor Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology
Mamoru KOHNO  Professor Department of Global Fire Science and Technology,Graduate School of Science and Technology
Motomu UNO Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Madoka KAYANOKI  Associate Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Ryohei KUMAGAI  Associate Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Yuji MIYAZU  Associate Professor Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology
Kaon KO  Junior Associate Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering
Yinli CHEN  Assistant Professor Department of architecture,Faculty of engineering

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Research results highlights 2018

Research Summary

Based on the theme of “Disaster Prevention in Cities Built on Advanced Systems”, building cities which enable recovery, maintenance and sustain their whole cultures and functions on themselves, by interconnecting the research results of the three fields: city culture, city performances and city planning.

Academics or Social Characteristics for the Division

The researchers and specialists belonging to this division consist of faculty members from four faculties: the Faculty of Engineering, the Former Faculty of Engineering II, the Faculty of Science and Technology for Innovation, and the International Graduate School of Fire Science and Technology.

They are conducting front-line research in their respective fields of expertise. In addition, they are certificated by major domestic academic societies such as AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan), CPIJ (The City Planning Institute of Japan), and SAHJ (Society of Architectural Historians of Japan).

Our division collaborates for advanced research in various fields related to city planning, including architecture and disaster prevention.

The Kagurazaka and its surrounding areas are unique in terms of chronological context and city structure in the world’s city’s history, and research on these areas is likely to attract international attention.

In addition, there are high expectations from both sectors public (governmental organizations) and private (private commercial and non-profit organizations) for proposing, reflecting, and presenting the results of our research.

This is one of the unique characteristics of contribution to society by the university and the division.

Tbl. 1　Historical Changes of Kagurazaka “Outside of Sotobori”, Lecture of Professor Akihisa ITO, April 2014

Areas Researching

Our principal research areas are Kagurazaka and its surrounding areas including Sotobori (outer moat), which should be called the home of Tokyo University of Science.

Researchers and specialists belonging for the division have long been engaged in regional research, contribution, and exchange activities in these areas, and have accumulated sufficient research experience.

We have created disaster prevention plan models and city plan models based on the results obtained in the areas.

We will develop urban disaster prevention research by applying and extending these results to urban areas throughout Japan.