We researched detached housing for a person with disabilities, built by an industrialized housing company in Japan. And we got 240 samples of newly built houses where they live or once lived till 1992. The result of this investigation says the points of housing design are to assist them to live independently or with good help. On the whole, three big level changes in a Japanese house were eliminated, in the entrance hall, bathroom and Japanese room. We classified samples into five categories by their moving styles. According to them, we found many features of equipment and planning in their house. For a person with self-controlled wheelchair, they set a slope at the entrance, wide corridors, wide-opened and no sill doors, various shaped handrails, some equipments for transfer from a wheelchair into a bathtub or a toilet- basin. For a person receiving intensive care they set following features of housing; a home-elevator,a hoist lift, a sanitary with a space for help and so on.
