AIA Japan Session No.1
Learning from Japanese traditional villages: Reflecting ecological knowledge on architecture utilizing simulation

Norihisa KAWASHIMA (MEiji University)

Monday, april 26, 2021 @19:00 JST

SUMMARY:
Norihisa Kawashima will show researches and local practices in Japan to learn ecological knowledge from traditional Japanese villages and conventional architectural typologies through environmental analysis using computational simulation, and showed that we can experience and learn the traditional knowledge, which our ancestors established over a long period of time, in a short period of time using computational simulation, and we can apply the knowledge to design new sustainable architecture and city.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify the local practices and traditions passed on through generations by the Japanese village ancestors to learn ecological  knowledge and conventional architectural typologies by using computational simulation.

2. Apply the knowledge accumulated by the traditional village with the use of environmental analysis and computational simulation to design new sustainable architecture and the city.

3. Investigate the methodology of environmental research that was conducted in the traditional village of "Nishi Awa".

4. Explore the possibility to re-interpret what was learned from the conventional buildings as contemporary architecture as in the case of "House with Saw-Tooth Roof in Ichinomiya".

CES:
1.0 LU/HSW for AIA members