A Consideration on the Interface Areas Concerning with the Private and the Public Spaces in the Rural Areas

Abstract

The interface areas of the traditional rural spaces are multi-functional, and flexibly structured and permeable space, and also have meanings as a sign and a symbol. These characteristics could be realized only in the stable situation of a rural community, in which each family frequently and deeply communicate with each other, and has a similar sense of value. Moreover, the residents are required to know the social and psychological boundaries. In this situation, the community is nearly like a big family as a whole, and the community area including the private and the public lands have a character of common space. The common space encloses the each home, and psychologically separate it from the outer spaces of strangers. The existence of the common space, which is psychologically owned by the residents, is a reason for the permeable interface areas between the outer and the inner spaces of the each home. But, the rural communities have been changed and destroyed with the modernization and the urbanization, and the community areas have lost the characteristics as a common space. Then, the each home directly faces to the strangers' spaces, and the interface areas become closer and harder. As a result, each home has been isolated from the spatial and the social points of view.