Abstract
The subject of this study is to analysis the difference of the residential style at independent house among 6 cities : Sapporo, Akita, Niigata, Nagaoka, Jouetsu and Kanazawa which are cities in snowy district. We indicate the residential style with the degree of overlapping among different zones of dwelling space that are distinguished by the use corresponding to living actions classified. Here, the living actions are classified to three categories : the acts concerning with recieving guests (these are named act G), the acts concernning with familly (named act F) and the personal acts including the transfers between rooms (named act P). 575 samples are classified to 5 types of residential style (type I〜type V). From the result of our analysis, in Sapporo, the family room and the guest room are used together in the center and here concentrating the indoor traffic lines, on the contrary, in Naeaoka and Jouetsu, there is a conspicuos tendency to establish the room for the guest only by dividing the traffic lines. In Kanazawa, there is a tendency to establish the family room and the guest room together by dividing the traffic lines. Akita and Niigata are the middle among 6 cities from a viewpoint of the residential style.
