In the part-1 of this research, theoretical and practical equations to calculate transmission coefficients on 2-dimensional intersecting structures for bending wave and longitudinal wave incidence, were shown. In the part-2, some 2-dimensional intersecting structure models were made and transmission properties were measured. In the part-3, calculations and experiments are expanded into the 3-dimensional intersecting beams. And considering with tortional wave, the sum of calculated transmission coefficients is proved to be 100 %. In this report : part-4, 15 nomographs to see energy reflection and transmission coefficients were made, for typical 3-dimensional intersecting beams (branch of 4-beams and 2-pillars), with normalized frequency (β^2) on incidence structure. 15 nomographs would be widely used, as for various intersection materials (E, γ), for various incident wave (Bz, By, L, T) and for various combination of branch dimension (n). Then in this report some general properties for wave transmission on intersecting beams were discussed.

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In our previous report we discussed how the visual environmental factors affected subjective appraisal, eye movement and work performance, when subjects were at threading beads work. In this report we mainly discuss the influences of the visual environmental factors mentioned above when subjects are at VDT work. From the subjective appraisal, we found the results, showing the effectiveness of windows, potted plants and pictures. Having or not having a window had a strong effect on the relative importance of the other factors. Having or not having a window also had an important effect on eye movement. When there was a window, subjects would not look at the other factors. When there was no window, their gaze would rest upon them. The influence of the visual environmental factors upon VDT work performance could not be detected, because the variance of individual difference were too large. We are now discussing experiments related to this problem, which we will cover in subsequent reports.

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We examined in this study in the effects of floor temperature on the human body, in the cases of sitting on a heated floor, directly exposed to floor heat and that of sitting on a floor covered by heat insulation material. An electric floor heating system was used for the experiment. In order to study the physiological and psychological effect upon subjects when exposed to the thermal environmental conditions obtained by floor heating temperature, we experimented with young female subjects.

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Purpose of this study is first to show the effects of vertical air temperature differences on thermal comfort and physiological responses, and second to examine the acceptable vertical air temperature differences. The experiments were carried out at the B. R. I. thermal environmental chamber. In this experiments, 40 subjects (20 males and 20 females) were exposed at 11 (half of subjects in summer) or 12 (half in winter) test conditions. In this chamber, the room was divided two parts (upper part and lower part) at the height of waist, then, the air temperature of two parts were controlled individually. The subjects voted each 5min. about his thermal feeling, and 12 skin surface temperatures, the oral temperature and in some subjects the rectal temperature were measured every minute. From this experiments, it was found that the upper part temperature affects the thermal sensation more strongly than lower part temperature, and that the average temperature of two parts affects the physiological responses more strongly than the temperature differences between two parts. In summer, the acceptable temperature differences drawn by this study are 4°C in the case that the upper part temperature is higher than the lower part temperature, and 6°C or more in the case that the lower part temperature is higher than the upper part.

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The location planning of hospitals in I-ward included in K-city has been made by the multiobjective decision methods with the five criteria. The medical care situation of I-ward was investigated, the hospital with 300 beds was located by the A-methods, which select optimal solutions from among all candidate locations, and the four real candidate sites were compared by the use of AHP, which caluclates the synthesis score for each site by pairwise comparison. From these results, the characters of three methods classified into A-method are showed respectively, and it is suggested that AHP tends to select the optimal solution, which is the best one in the most preferable criterion. In this study, the availability of the multiobjective approach to the location plannig of community facilities is made clear.

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This research analysis the distinctive characters of KOREAN traditional dwelling in the village of HAHOE, classification of plan type and spatial separation according to men and women's activities. (1) Related to plan type, hahoe's houses have two variations ; One type has a separated space "SARANG-CHE", used only by the men and also used to recieve guests. Another type, dosen't have separated space "SARANG-CHE" and it has basic 3kan (間), 4kan (間), Ltype and doubled type as formal variations. (2) Related to the spatial separation of men and women we can find the following facts : 1) In the separated "SARANG-CHE" space. Following traditional moral codes, upper class houses demand spatial separation between man and woman space, but in some cases, although separation exists, a certain level of flexibility is possible. 2) In the not separated "SARANG-CHE" space. A) "SANGBANG" (room) is used as man's room, but with more complex function than the separated space "SARANG-CHE". B) To get the spatial separation, these houses have distinct features as "SANGBANG-MARU", dividing doors, difefrent entrances, etc.

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The purpose of this research is to provide the informations on built-in closets and storage in urban apartment houses in Korea, considering the mode of living. In order to understand the actual condition of built-in storage of the rural house, public operated detached house, public operated apartment houses, and private operated apartment houses, various data on built-in storage were investigated and collected. These data were carefully analysed in view of the function and relative position of built-in storage in the dwelling space. Since the number of household goods and furniture might be related with the size of house (LDK) and district (Seoul, Pusan, Incheon) all data also were evaluated by the structure of dwelling space and urban area in Korea. Storage space could generally be classified as Byokjang (A), Banchim (B), Darak (C), internal warehouse (D) and external warehouse (E), however C is usually not equipped in the apartment houses. For being importance of "Anbang" for indoor living, in which Zangnong, Mungap, a dressing table and hanger are prepared. Preparation of new space in "Anbang" is intensively suggested in this research, since "Anbang" is used for various ways, so many living tools are being used, for example the dinner table with adjustable supporters. The space of "D" and "E" were mostly used for season's living goods. It is very interest that the bed is still not popular, because that is considered as obstruction for the function of "Anbang", specially in small size apartment.

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In this study, we investigated the structure of land use distribution at great area through the use of the land use category data by mesh and prefecture unit. We divided into land use categories, high density build-up land, low density build-up land and miscellaneous land as spatial use land, rice field, cropland, orchard and plantation as agricultural use land, woodland, moor and water front as unused land. The summary of the results are as follows : 1. The population structure of every prefecture can be categorize into six pattern and the alteration of the land use structure in every prefecture have two main tendency, one is the increase of urban land use, the other is the increase of forest. 2. On national scale, every category of land use organizes high density zones and low density zones. The spatial use land forms two great zones by density, and high density zone shapes concentric-zone structure, high percentage units are consentrating at center and low ones are spreading around. The agricultural land make different structure by categories. 3. The hightest mixing rate between land use categories is that of low densiy build-up land use in other land use category. The rate become higher in urbanized region, lower in agricultural region. 4. The correlation between spatial use land and other land use category decrease in urbanized region, increase in agricultural region.

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In France, land-use competition has been severe in certain regions between constructions, housings, agriculture, transportations, and leisure activities. Until the decentralisation of 1983, the central government prepared authorized land-use plans. This responsibility has been transferred to communes if they wish so. The regional planning system has been changed : PAR (Plan d'Amenagement Rural) transferred to CIDA (Les Chartes Intercommunales de Developpement et d'Amenagement) and small communes are now able to plan POS if they want to. In small communes near cities POS functions to harmonize land-use conflict between urban and rural interests. In contrast, small communes in remote areas, use POS to get a areas designated for non-agricultural uses such as household enterprises, traditions art industries and tourist operations to revitalize their community.

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This paper aims at a phenomenological analysis of Proust's text concerning the belfry of Saint-Hilaire church in Combray--a small town where the Narrator of "A la recherche du temps perdu" passes, in his boyhood, a never-to-be-forgotten time, and which he later relives in his reminiscence. Saint-Hilaire belfry manifests its presence by its views in the town, its figure in the landscape or its bells ringing through the country. In this way, revealing its being in different modes, the belfry helps the Narrator as well as the inhabitants of Combray to dwell in the profound sens of the word. It is through such a work of man (that can be a work of art) that a human being can be, amid all that takes place, simultaneously "here" and universally "now". Interpretation of this 'experiencing belfry' makes clear that architecture, in its figure, implicates that is set into work in itself, and explicates this as an architectural phenomenon by its manifestations in time and space. Thus architecture comes to form the foundation of human existence in the world.

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In this paper, I deal with the problem of the faculties of the human soul concerning the Architectural Beauty through the article "Beau" in Quatremere de Quincy's "Encyclopedie methodique, Architecture (1788)". These faculties mean the sense, the understanding and the taste, which correspond to the sensation, the perception and the affection among the human actions influenced by Architecture. And also these three faculties have deep relationships with the various qualities of Beauty, such as grandeur, force, order, harmony, richness and economy, which constitute three essential parts of Architecture, that is, Construction, Disposition and Decoration. In conclusion, I elucidate Quatremere de Quincy's Vitruvian way of thinking Architecture, which was based on Platonic idea.

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth century Inami of Etchu, now located in Toyama prefecture, was Kaga-han territory. There, as a reward for construction works done for Lord Maeda, a group of ten carpenters were granted land use and exempted from various duties. It is in these events that we find the origin of the production system in the building industry of this region. Although the composition of this group of privileged carpenters changed greatly over time, the Bansho-ya carpenters remained part of this group until the modern period. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the family records of the Bansho-ya as they have been transmitted down until today. It will shed light on certain problems of succession, of working methods, as well as on the process of work specialization that took place among the wood carving carpenters of Inami.

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This paper, taking Doi-Kachu in Aki District in the fief of Tosa as an example, seeks to clarify the historical process of the formation of samurai houses during the Edo period through an analysis of the existing settlement and surviving archival materials. Goto House, one of chief retainers of the fief of Tosa, resided in Doi (the fortress enclosed by the large embankment and mort) and the samurai house quarters for his vassals as called South (Front), East and West Town existed in front and both sides of Doi in the early Edo period. Such spacial composotion of Doi-Kachu was originated from the medieval castle town of Choso-kabe Family. Next in the middle of Edo period, North Town which was planned for the lower class was expanded at the northwest of Doi-Kachu and the dwelling lots of Doi-Kachu were redistributed according to three classes of samurai hierarchy. This was the turning poinf of Doi-Kachu from the view-point of the samurai houses in the Edo period.

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Historical studies of Shoin architectural interiors have up to now largely ignored the ornamental elements which were typically placed within the space as formal decoration. Among these elements, my particular focus is on the subject of KA-DO. This paper is a study of the usage of TATE-BANA (which flourished in the Kinsei Period) in the Shishinden (a building in which the traditions of the Kodai Period still strongly remain) in the early Edo Period during the reign of Emperor Gomino-o. The source of information is the Senko Tate-Bana-zu, by Ni-Dai Ikenobo Senko. The contents are as follows : 1. Introduction. 2. Ikenobo Senko. 3. Ni-Dai Senko Tate-Bana-zu. 4. Tate-Bana Gyokai in the Shishinden. 5. Shishinden Tate-Bana Gyokai Sekiwari Sashi-zu [scroll painting in the possession of the Ikenobo Family]. 6. The Shishinden in the 6th year of the Kan'ei Period [1629]. 7. Usage of the Shishinden during the Tate-Bana Gyokai. 8. Conclusion.

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