A STUDY ON HOW TO PRESERVE REGIONAL SCENIC INFORMATION BY MEANS OF BUILDING SCALE MODELS OF THE TSUNAMI STRICKEN AREAS

–Focusing on the process of making additional mini-structures through interviewing the local citizens in scale models making workshop conducted in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture –

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics and availability of the “Town of Memories Workshop” a method of preserving cultures including the scenery and the life style in disaster-stricken areas. This workshop divided into three stages: making the restoring models of the disaster-stricken areas, showing the models to the local citizens and conduct interviews on them about the areas before the disaster, adding to the gained information to the models. This study is based on the results of the workshop held in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture damaged by the tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake.