Designing Themes of Regional Revitalization on the basis of On-Site Inquiry by a Method of letting Subjectivity and Objectivity Coexist.

Abstract

This paper discusses the understanding embedded in the traditional form of vernacular houses and the landscape composed of those houses and other traditional forms. The authors introduce “Photo Diary” - a form of expressing findings in field-works and a process of associating findings with each other. “Photo Diary” is composed of a photograph expressing a finding in a field-work, the description of remarkable facts taken in the photograph, the description of interpretation of the facts, and the observer’s first-person experiences of the facts. Every photo diary is associated with each other to construct a whole structure of the findings. The authors have been exploring the spatial schema underlying the form of vernacular houses. On the way of exploring, we have been accumulating pieces of findings. This paper explains a process of constructing design inquiries for regional revitalization of Izena Village, Okinawa, where traditional Ryukyu houses and landscapes are remaining.