白川郷の合掌造り集落における景観保全の新たな手法に関する研究

岐阜県大野郡白川村荻町を対象として

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In this study, we studied aspects that consist the core components of guidelines regulating the landscape of traditional architectural buildings; The spatial composition of household and the change in the local community (change of the number of households and household structures) and household engagement in the tourism industry. Our findings are: 1) Regulations that have uniform measures controlling new construction and extension of buildings in the preservation district tend to limit the choices of building use and have impact on life styles of residents if not taking considerations in the number and sizes of buildings owned by the family; 2) It is virtually impossible to have uniform regulations that regulate various types of scale, location, and arrangement of the buildings as well as the spatial composition of residential buildings different from one household to another; 3) The spatial composition of the community has been changed due to the the changes in the number of households and household structures and their engagement in tourism industry. Based on these findings, we propose the new measures for landscape management of Shirakawa-go village: a) Landscape guidelines and regulations that correspond to each and different types of household condition; b) Regulations that include not alteration control of the buildings only but also should include the rules that correspond to different types of use of buildings and requests of alteration by residents; c) Management that generates employment opportunity and encourages the use of vacant houses for residents.