2013 年 78 巻 685 号 p. 635-642
This is the third article on conservation of the traditional houses in Weipo village (Laojie) near Luoyang, China. In Weipo village most of the residents have built new houses and moved out. At the present time only 14 families (35 persons) remain in the 10 Siheyuan houses. However, the new houses which have a court in the center, seemed to be similar to the traditional Siheyuan houses. If so, the traditional Siheyuan houses planning is not the sole reason that residents have moved out. In this paper we researched the new houses closely and inquired the residents about of the traditional houses (including the pepole who moved out). In the interview the residents pointed out some disadvantages such as inconvenient doorways, space shortages, complicated neighborly relations, dust, difficulties to agree for repairing the common wall, poor ventilation etc. but also some advantages such as warm in winter and cool in summer, calmness, nice traditional atmosphere, feeling at home, etc. From the building survey we make sure the house plans of the new houses are quite similar to the traditional Siheyuan houses. The principle difference is the new house is composed of one detached unit. Based on these observations we discussed the possibilities that the traditional Siheyuan houses can be improved and livable as modern houses.