A study on the generation of urban environment in the traditional collective dwellings

Abstract

In the traditional collective dwellings, there exists a peculiar order to generate their own urban environment. Some efforts have been made to clear the form of urban environment, how-ever, the mechanism of its generation has not been cleared yet. Aizu Wakamatsu was selected to be studied as an objective place. This study aims to clear the form of its urban environment based on the field investigation. The mechanism and the element of its generation are also studied. In Chapter 1, in order to condition the objective clearly, the past studies on the urban structure of Aizu Wakamatsu are surveyed with some comments. The purpose, method and the results of the field investigation are also described briefly. In Chapter 2, on the basis of the investigation of the remains of urban dwellings, the structures of individual urban dwellings are classified and the form of their environment is defined. Analyzing the relation among individual dwellings, urban environment in the traditional collective dwellings is abstracted and its form in the domain of the Aizu clan is surveyed. In Chapter 3, the results of the investigation of the remains are checked up with historical drawings and documents. Thus, the process of building urban dwellings from the period of Meiji back to the late period of Edo is cleared, and the structure and the form of urban environment in the traditional collective dwellings in the late period of Edo are historically clarified. In Chapter 4, the way to generate urban environment in the traditional collective dwellings, whose form is cleared in Chapter 3, is considered on the basis of historical documents. First, the process to generate the order in a depth is cleared groping for the element of building the traditional collective dwellings in relation to the market-opening (ichidate). Second, the process to generate the order in a frontage is cleared groping for the element of generating environment in the traditional collective dwellings in relation to the fence-following rule (oikaki). At the end of this paper, the element of generating environment in the collective dwellings is considered in relation to urban zoning (machiwari).