STUDY ON APPEARANCE OF THE TRADITIONAL STOREHOUSE IN KAMO CITY, NIIGATA

Abstract

Kamo city is old traditional city in Niigata prefecture and known as ‘Small Kyoto’. There are 398 traditional storehouses in Kamo city. And the traditional storehouses are expected to be important element in unique regional streetscape of Kamo city.
Focusing on exterior element attached to the storehouses, this study shows 5 types of storehouse by cluster analysis and suggests that the 5 types are unevenly distributed over the city.