Abstract
This report presents the result of our case study of house plan types in which efforts are made to apply to it the pattern-analytical procedure we have developed as a means to apprehend, notably, their regional pattern characteristics and probable directions of pattern-transition in, e.g., any major specific district or city of this country. The attendant analysis is atempted of available instances in Hokkaido respecting their recent pattern-transition, so as to find out appropriate plan patterns considered to evolve through their expected transition out of those existent. The above process consists of: 1) firstly, analyzing noticeable tendencies in recent years on relatively macroscopic indices such as the dimension the number of the rooms, the types of the non-private rooms, of a dwelling house, and others; 2) also analyzing noticeable trends of pattern-transition observed in that period by use of sets of data of room arrangement combined with their circulation counterparts both obtained from linkage-, adjacency- and arrangement-patterns of the considered house plan types; 3) further, reviewing any appreciable changes, that may concurrently occur in the dwellers' mode of living as well as their claims for its improvement which can both constitute principal motives for the pattern transition; and 4) finally deriving therefrom constituent plan-patterns which agree with such requirements of room arrangement and circulation as should be in the expected directions of pattern-transition, depending on the analysis of the above-mentioned tendencies of pattern-transition and its factor indices.
