抄録
The present paper is intended specifically to explicate the pattern-analytical approach the author has developed thereby to clarify the regional characteristics and the chronological changing aspects of various house plan types; while, currently, using their pattern diagrams coherently coordinated in schematic form, thus making our procedure articulately practicable. The above purposes are served by the following attempts. Initially, we give a more directly comprehensible, tabular representation to constituent plan-pattern diagrams, notably arrangement- and adjacency-pattern schemes, which we have used as a tool of systematic classification of various house plans. Secondly, a diagrammatic process is introduced so as to provide such plan-patterns in a form compatible with the requirements for circulation and room arrangement. Lastly, this approach is used in accounting for regional characteristics of house plan types in a specific district and anticipating their future development. In this context, an example is taken of the case of detatched houses in Hokkaido to make the associated efforts involving; 1) tabulating constituent plan-patterns regionally characterized by the centrality of living rooms, followed by 2) manifesting relevant pattern characteristics, based on a set of function diagrams derived from the tables referred to above; 3) whence to deduce some major phases of prospective plan-patterns in that region.
