2006 年 71 巻 600 号 p. 1-8
This research study is aimed at understanding the space features of settlements, which was conducted on the waterfront spaces of Asia. I chose the Messah, Seraya and Kukusan settlement of the eastern islands of Indonesia as the case study. I clarified the space features of the settlement from the relationship between the space structure on the community level, the mechanisms of the dwelling pattern and community dwellings and external space. This study clarified as follows 1) In consideration of the structure of external space, it is thought that the pillar houses has been located as a system that distinguishes the ground level and family lives. 2) The dwelling assumes an important role as the group territory, at the same time as belonging to an individual territory by the existence of the opened below the floor level space without the wall.