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This class is designed for graduate students who have taken basic lectures and exercises in environmental design to learn more about landscape design in a more specialized way. We will observe some landscape design projects in cities and suburbs, then analyze, discuss their social and spatial meanings, design concepts, plantings, pavements, structures, and facilities.
In the second and fourth weeks, we will actually visit parks and green spaces in Tokyo (on-site gathering and dismissal), and the following week, students will give presentations and discussions on their analyses and considerations.
Explains building technology not only from the perspective of conventional "construction methods" but also from the perspective of information technology and new technology. In the exercise, we will think about architectural techniques and construction methods while performing 3D modeling.
This course covers building materials as the basis for architecture.
In this class, we will focus on structural design (structural planning) rather than structural calculation.
First of all, the relationship between structural design and architectural design will be outlined.
And then the characteristics and methodologies of various categorized structural systems will be studied.
At the same time, students will model various structures using structural analysis software running on Rhinoceros/Grasshopper, and acquire a sense for deciphering the flow of forces by visualizing structural behavior using digital technology.
This online lecture course is concerned with the design of urban life-world. It is concerned with the history and theory of urban design, with how it is currently being practiced, and with how it could and should be critiqued in the context of contemporary politics, economy and culture. The course recognizes the hybridized nature of urban design, sees it as a complex field whose opportunities and constraints, as well as influences and bounding forces vary, and attempts to map these variables.
The course is divided into three units: ‘Foundations’, ‘Dimensions’, and ‘Outlooks’. The ‘Foundations’ unit reviews a history of urban form, and the ideational infrastructure and professional practices that come to us today as precedents. It progresses chronologically along key chapters in the annals of city making, from Classical politics through Renaissance idealism towards Modern utopias and dystopias. It then addresses the influence of the field’s founders, of Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Christopher Alexander, Colin Rowe, Allan Jacobs and William Whyte, among others, and sees how their somehow disparate works have coalesced urban design as a distinct field. For the second unit ‘Dimensions’ the course adopts the analytical structure of Carmona’s and Tiesdell’s ‘Urban Design Reader’ [2007]. Our study progresses along six influencing dimensions of urban design: morphological—configuration of urban form, perceptual—perceived and experienced spaces, social—link between social variation and formal organization, visual—aesthetic measurements of urban development, functional—use of spaces, and temporal—evolvement of spaces through and over time. The third unit ‘Outlooks’ is designated to students’ presentations and class discussion. Each participating student is requested to present a series of observations of urban design projects located in Tokyo and vicinity that correspond with the class’s themes and evoke further discussion in them. The unit and course then conclude by trying to determine the challenges of future urban design.
As a whole, the course follows the theoretical principals of urban design, see how they evolve in particular cultural, social and political contexts, and how they contribute to a physical form of place at specific urban conditions.
In today's world, energy resources are considered to be essential for developing and sustaining economic activities. Also, the importance of energy is judged from a security point of view. Ever since curtailing global warming and preserving an inhabitable environment for our future generations has become an inalienable portion of economic development in recent decades, there has been a rising international debate on how mankind should utilize various sources of energy. Based on broader knowledge of features, advantages or disadvantages, and commercial values of various types of energy and resources, this course will aim to analyze the usage of such resources, and to evaluate the validity of regional and major economies' energy policies, with a perspective of forecasting the future of respective energy portfolios.
Understand the calculation method and planning method of the environmental impact factors such as light, heat and sound. Moreover, understand the concept and method of energy saving and environment symbiosis.
In order to create safe and comfortable environments, it is necessary to understand a broad range of engineering technology. Structural design and materials are especially important for architects. In this course students will examine the relationships between structural engineering and material science.
この授業では、英語のみのかたと日本語のみのかたも大丈夫です。
Students who speak only English or only Japanese are welcome in this class.
The many tasks that computers perform for us can roughly be broken
down into five categories:
* process data
* name data
* move data
* store data
* manage data
The operating system regulates access to both data and resources, and
provides abstractions that make the above tasks straightforward.
The most critical fact of modern systems is that data and computing and storage resources may be spread across the planet. Computing on such distributed data requires moving data, often replicating it in the process. Decisions about computations, as well as the computations themselves, must be made with an eye to achieving this efficiently and robustly.
This class addresses the design and creation of multimedia knowledge bases (image, video, music and text knowledge-bases), data mining and semantic associative processing. The most important objective of this lecture is to develop knowledge and skills for designing and creating multimedia knowledge-bases and multimedia systems with experimental practice. It is essential to study how to analyze, store, retrieve and integrate media data (image, video, music and text) in a knowledge-base system environment. An actual knowledge-base system is used to create experimental multimedia knowledge-bases and applied it to WWW system environments. We also design a meta-level multimedia system with data mining processes for new-multimedia creation.
Purpose of Course:
A major focus of the class is on learning to parse and discuss molecular biology papers such as Nature, Science and Cell.
Topics covered are:
(1) Gene identification (basics of molecular biology)
(2) Gene expression
(3) Preparation of recombinant proteins
(4) Genes and their regulatory proteins
(5) Non-coding RNAs
(6) Applications of Biotechnology
The course will also involve seminars to be supervised by guest professors.
In this seminar, we will learn about Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We will discuss the history of these countries, as well as their landscapes and cities, their people and cultures. We will read various texts, watch videos and eventually hold talks with experts. There will also be an opportunity to work with students of Trier University in Germany (online collaboration: exchange, discussion, possibly presentations).
This lecture is organized to support your basic academic ability To study Data Science. We overview mathematics in high school. If you success the midterm exam, you can complete this lecture and advance the next Data Science 1. We hope you have interest with mathematics!
This course is arranged for the study of high school mathematics. In Japanese high school math curriculum we use 6 text books. In this course we mainly overview 4 of the 6 books. To take Data Science I and II courses, all students must pass this course if you don't pass the certification examination of Data Science.
Irrespective of device and software, foundation of novel fabrications is to enhance the completion degree of a product by utilizing the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle. This class deals with basic technologies and measurement techniques required for novel fabrication from both the analog and digital aspects. To experience practical fabrication processes and to learn more advanced technical and consideration skills, this course consists of three exercise rounds each of which has a different hands-on theme.
Which country or place do you think of when you hear “Koreans’ living area”? Many people tend to thing of South Korea or North Korea, the nation from the Korean Peninsula. However, as a matter of fact, Koreans are separated all around the world, establishing their own society in various places. In this lecture, we will analyze the main factor of defining an ethnic group, “the use of language”, in order to understand the characteristics of Koreans’ living areas all around the world.
The body is a kind of “buffer zone” between outside and inside. It’s an interface between our « self » and social world. In sociology, this externality can be understood as responsible institutions for our education : family, school, amateur sport, first job, et cetera ; internality must be understood by the embodiement of its education (the body is learning and memorizing unconsciously social conducts). Sociology of body is about the embodiement of such norms. How are we internalizing these social norms ? How these norms are structuring our mind and, de facto, our perception of the world. Our class will answer to all of these questions.
We study matrices and vectors, in particular, how to solve the simultaneous equation, how to calculate the determinant and the inverse matrices. Moreover,
by abstracting these concepts, we study linear spaces and linear mapping.
Then a matrix can be regarded as a linear mapping. Especially, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix, and the matrix diagonalization characterize the mapping. We often encounter these concepts in other mathematical fields including statistics.
We will learn about the properties of vectors and matrices as these are basic concepts. We will also learn how to solve simultaneous equations using matrices. After that, we will learn about the uses of linear algebra used in our lives, including applications to technology such as computer search, computer graphics, error correction and quantum computing. Linear algebra is among the most fundamental and useful fields of mathematics, and the material here will benefit learners in many other classes at SFC.
The purpose of this class is to consider several themes of past buildings and cities by introducing cases of various ages and cultures. The key issues of the whole class are the locality found in the historical buildings and cities, their transformation process, and the way to understand and interpret them. The examples of different ages and cultures often question our everyday lives. Therefore, this class aims to broaden one's perspectives on buildings and cities by introducing unfamiliar examples.
The purpose of this lecture is to provide students with concepts and methodologies to design building that can create a comfortable environment with low impact to the environment. The students will learn about relationship between each technology and its impact to architectural/urban space. The lecture will mainly focus on case studies and group discussion to give better understanding along with slide lecture as a basis of the discussion. The slide lecture will provide an international perspective as well as local practice to give a big picture of each technology, and the actual project example to give practical understanding.