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Volume 54, Issue 2
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Takehiko TakanashiArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 1-8
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSNumber of trees per unit area has been used as a guideline for forest management. Unlike the cases of timber production, the qualitative improvement of the forest landscape management cannot be measured only by numbers of trees. In order to achieve this qualitative improvement, visibility and brightness are essential factors. Therefore, in this analysis, it became necessary to create some new numerical indexes capable of reflecting these factors, and as a result, two functions were created that are called "Bole Space Volume" and "Diameter Breast Height Index". These two functions were created with such elements as number of trees, diameter breast height, bole height, floor vegetation height and crown density per unit area. These elements are essentially related to the visibility and the brightness of the forest. It was confirmed that these functions will be a guideline for forest landscape management because they make it possible to assume visible distance and relative light intensity that are influencing on the qualitative improvement by the forest management.View full abstractDownload PDF (2630K) -
Yasuko SugaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 9-18
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSImai Kazuko studied in Europe in the 1930s, played a pivotal role at the Jiyu Gakuen Institute for Art and Craft Studies, and exhibited at International Exhibitions. This article discusses her activities based on European Modernist education from three aspects : craft industry, gender and nationalism. The founding process of the Craft Institute, the creative basis for the feminist Jiyu-Gakuen, Imai's study abroad (at Prague National Craft Institute, Itten Schule, Reimann Schule), and her principal role at the Craft Institute will be examined. This shall reveal how Imai's activities were gradually taken into the national policy of exporting modern craft, which may be termed as a strategy of "modern Japonisme". Imai's modernity contributed to this aspect of national representation.View full abstractDownload PDF (2590K) -
Satoshi Ito, Yoshie Kiritani, Yasuhiro Ohara, Yoichi Tamagaki, Michio ...Article type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 19-26
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSImpressions of label designs from the point of the whole packaging of Japanese Sake was studied. The impressions of 13 colors of Sake bottles were measured and analyzed, so that we confirmed that users could get some images from colored bottles. The impression of combinations of current 14 labels and 6 color bottles were evaluated. A factor analysis extracted three factors of maturity, density, and preference. The maturity of labels themselves was effected by label's color(chroma). Its density was affected by its color(hue) and the amount of used graphic. The preference depended on the colors like gold that seem gorgeous and the layout catching eyes. Moreover, the bottle's colors changed labels' impressions drastically. Especially, the preference was largely affected by color unity, hue difference, brightness difference and used color in the labels themselves and in the bottles.View full abstractDownload PDF (1556K) -
Kazusa Minami, Toshiharu Taura, Yukari NagaiArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 27-34
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSLatent Function is defined as a new function appeared when artifact's surrounding changes. If the number of artifacts with abundant Latent Functions increases in society, it is expected to lead to the decrease of wasteful action. However, the standard to judge the Latent Function of the artifact is not clear. Therefore, the method of generalizing the discovered Latent Function is necessary. In this study, it proposes the method of quantifying the Latent Function in the concept dictionary. The distance between concepts and number of Latent Functions are provided from the tree structure of the concept dictionary. And, relations between Latent Functions discovered from each artifact are analyzed from the result of obtaining. Result of analysis, it has been understood that it is easy to discover the function from the simple thing than the complicated artifact.View full abstractDownload PDF (1055K) -
Mijy Kwon, Sungheui Cho, Haruo HibinoArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 35-42
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe demand for a new type of studio unit has increased gradually with the diversification of resident types. However, the current floor plans of studio unit do not utilize the benefit of an open plan in small areas. Thus, the purpose of this study is to propose several guidelines for the planning of studio unit that correspond to residents' needs in order to facilitate the benefit of open plans, such as efficiency and multi-purpose use within a small area. As the results, the design guidelines of planning studio unit could be suggested through five cases. These findings show that, for a better understanding of studio unit, further research by increasing the number of subjects and diversifying the dwelling size will be needed.View full abstractDownload PDF (1166K) -
Shih Hai Chen, Taro OchiaiArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 43-48
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn view of the fact that multi-functional Qi-Lous are prevalent in Taiwan's cities this study mainly examines the effects of Qi-Lous in the multifunctional society. This is done by investigating the current status of the Qi-Lous and sidewalks in I-Lan city in Taiwan with the rationale of user-based Universal Design, to explore the existing Qi-Lou related problems of barriers ; pedestrian safety and resident quality of life. In order to gain a better understanding and to elicit more information about the related Qi-Lou issues, the researchers have interviewed several architects and other experts in the field of architecture. Then, all the collected data are processed and analyzed to obtain the desired information. In conclusion, based on the findigs of this study, some feasible proposals for improvement are discussed.View full abstractDownload PDF (1910K) -
Miki Kumekawa, Akihiro HottaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 49-56
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe social and technological environmental change in our country have changed the concept and the demand of the design also. Making the design concept concerning new value to design especially becomes important in this change. This study tried the structurizing to construct the technique of the design concept. The definition and the concept of design, concept and design concept collected by the document investigation were analyzed. As a result, the action, value and means, have been extracted as a factor to compose the design concept. Two models of the process concerning the construction of an improvement of the design concept and a new design concept were proposed based on these three factors. In addition, this model was examined according to an existing case and the effectiveness of the mdel was confirmed.View full abstractDownload PDF (1443K) -
Miki Kumekawa, Akihiro HottaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 57-64
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this research was to have clarified elderly people's demand for the grooming themselves acts and sense of values corresponding to the rejuvenation factor of the grooming oneself act. It proposed the analysis method by applying the technique of the field survey. The interview was done to three subjects, and the actual and the potential demands for the grooming oneself act have been extracted. These were classified into the one that had been achieved and the one that had not been achieved. As a result, the subject that it grooming oneself and the demand is corresponding to the demand of sense of values satisfies with grooming oneself the current state. On the other hand, the subject to whom these were not corresponding was not satisfied with a current grooming oneself act.View full abstractDownload PDF (1454K) -
Kanako Doi, Kei Adachi, Chitose TanakaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 65-72
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe hall floor type is known as the common model of group home. It is easy for the staff to watch elderly people with dementia, while the selection of places is limited and privacy is missing for the elderly people in some cases. On the other hand, non-hall floor type is surmised that there may be more opportunity of the place selections and more privacy from elderly people's viewpoint. This research evaluates daily behaviors of people with dementia and the staff in comparison with the hall type and the non-hall floor type. As the result, it was proved that the designed non-hall floor type creates more privacy for the elderly people and leads to more individual correspondence by the staff.View full abstractDownload PDF (1522K) -
Miki Kumekawa, Akihiro HottaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 73-82
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this research is to clarify foctors and conditions of the grooming oneself which rejuvenated the elderly people. To structurize factors of the rejuvenation, the document investigation was done. As a result, it was suggested that the grooming oneself made the self-consciousness a nucleus, and be composed of the physiological factor, the psychological, and the social. These were thought to be changeable the factor that corresponded by the situation, etc. Moreover, it was suggested that these factors had the Parano and the Schizo axis respectively by the interview and the question paper investigation. These were thought to be changeable the factor that corresponded according to elderly people's attribute. The three conditions were extracted based on this.View full abstractDownload PDF (2207K) -
Chiharu Nagai, Kiyoshi MiyazakiArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 83-92
Published: July 31, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 11, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe ceramic industries had been one of the priorities of the Governmental Industrial Promotion policy (shokusan-kogyou) in the first half of the Meiji era. The Vienna World Exhibition of 1873, and the subsequent studies of advanced Western technology by Japanese students, were further, important stimuli for the ceramic industries. This article examines the importance of the region of Bohemia, as a model for the Japanese porcelain production, and explores the backgrounds and goals of the studies made by the scholars K. Notomi, T. Kawahara and R. Tansan. In the 1850s, the region of Bohemia stood out among important European porcelain companies and manufacturers, due to its highly developed technology for large-scale production. Bohemian industy porcelain also attracted special attention during the Vienna World Exhibition. For this reason, Bohemia was selected as a model to study.View full abstractDownload PDF (2545K)
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