Naoto Tanaka

Study on environmental preservation about engineering heritage at waterfront as regional management

In recent years, social concern has gathered for preservation and practical use of the modernization inheritance as a cultural property. It is thought that the philosophy and technique for preservation of a modernization inheritance differ for every area. Furthermore, many of engineering-works structures are the institution group stuck to the area as a public facility. As for them, maintenance and management of an institution, and preservation and practical use have an inseparable relation. The purpose of this research is considering preserving-as local property-modernization inheritance philosophy, and its technique from a civil engineering-standpoint. In order to consider preservation of a modernization inheritance from the viewpointof local management, It puts in a database by grasping the local feature of the engineering-works structure first Next, the questionnaire survey about the preservation was conducted to the entrepreneur.

Study on the transition of community as urban development in the waterfront

This study considered transition of the community, which is located along waterside and also aimed to design an attractive waterside space. Therefore at first, data have been collected on consciousness of people who are along and same have been analyzed. In addition, the data on a methodology has been developed while the data was collecting through listening comprehension along waterside more. Influence of social infrastructure maintenance was big, and, as result of this study, the transition community confirmed that there was a difference in accessing waterside and aware of consciousness for river improvement in that area. This study was able to consider the community along waterfront, which has flood control and activity of both waterside use and developed in a thing which has flexible original system.

Water-front design based on the Lake Biwa Canal under modernization

In this paper, we deal with the water-front of Okazaki Area in Kyoto Higashiyama as the space for amenity based on the Lake Biwa Canal under the modernization. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of the Lake Biwa Canal in planning of water-front, and show the knowledge and process of creating the urban amenity by using historical materials. As a result, this infrastructure have sustained the urbanization of Okazaki Area directly and indirectly, and contributed creation of water-front amenity for citizen.

Process of the Navigation Systems Design in the Lake Biwa Canal Project

It is useful for infrastructure planning to learn the technologies of civil engineering in the past and study a process of urban development. We classify the transition of urban development along the Lake Biwa Canal that was based on the function of navigation systems, and consider the action of the infrastructure on urban development.The Lake Biwa Canal was constructed by using water from the Lake Biwa in the 19th century applying the latest technology in Meiji period. This canal has been produced a lot of amenity for about 100 years since the construction, in spite of disappearance of shipping there. It was found through our study that navigation systems was one of the most important function of the Lake Biwa Canal and this infrastructure played an important part in the urban development of Kyoto.

Design Research on Historical Transition of Concrete Products forming River-bank Protection Works

Concrete products have been the mainstream of River-bank Protection Works since beginning of the 20C. Because of their high flexibility, concrete products have changed into all kinds of shape reflecting the needs of the times. As the basic research on the river-landscape, we surveyed the design of concrete products historically. In this research, it is identified that concrete products could be classified into 3 genealogyfollowing different traditional methods of construction and their developement fall into 4 periods historically.