In this research, how existing residential and vocational facilities for person with physical disabilities adapt the new service system of Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act, and changes that is caused by this new system on residents living in these facilities are studied. The results are as follows: 1) Most of facilities changed into support for person in residential care and care for daily life. 2) Some of facilities were originally established as housings for workers with physical disabilities. 3) Because support for persons in residential care didn’t admit users to use working programs, some of people had to quit working. 4) Social inclusion thorough Group homes and Care homes for person with physical disabilities are difficult, because these houses have to be barrier-free enough.

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This research project demonstrates the effective low energy measures for housing life in a local city in Tohoku district of Japan, Tagajyo. The more effective insulation measures, the shift to electric vehicles from conventional gasoline vehicles and installation of solar cells have been evaluated based on the survey of energy consumption of house operation as well as private cars. The result shows that it would be possible to reduce the energy consumption of detached houses in the city by 48% with these measures, in which the most effective measure was the installation of solar cells on the roof. Since there is the demand discordance between electricity generation by solar cells and electricity consumption by houses, the usage of electric vehicle batteries to store the excess electricity generated by solar cells has been evaluated. The result shows that 74% of the annual excess electricity can be utilized effectively by these electric vehicle batteries.

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The purpose of this study is to discuss the validity of junior high school districts as the basis for setting official senior care service areas. The results of a survey of one hundred and seventy-five (175) senior people show that the actual living spheres of elderly people match, on average, two or three elementary school districts and that local organizations take responsibility in these elementary school districts. Therefore, it can be argued that junior high school districts are meaningful as the standard for official care service area settings, because they are a group unit of matching elementary school districts.

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The purpose of this study, we examined the characteristics of the townhouses in Sado Island. As a result, the town houses of this island have been divided into three types. I pointed out that one originated as farmhouse and developed into rural-style town house, the other two styles came from outside of the island. I reasoned that two foreign types differ in a source and one came from the Echigo district on the other side of the sea, another style was the form carried in with formation of a mining town at the beginning of Edo period. This paper showed the regionality and universality which the town house of Japan has.

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This study examines the situation of the daily life problems of DV survivors who have left an institution, and the organizational problems and possibilities for the pioneering after-care programs. In conclusion, 1) many survivors faced serious economic problems, mental illness, and were isolated from their regional community because they lost their former human network, 2) many Non-Profit Organizations assisting DV survivors provide after-care programs without public subsidies, 3)“Nagasaki Prefecture’s after-care program” and “Program based on the regulation of Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act” are indicated for the examples of the construal possibility of after-care program for survivors.

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Our questionnaire survey and case study examined families that had undertaken the long-term at-home care of their ALS family members prior to that family member's passing. We came to the following main conclusions. 1) Elderly bereaved family members that had lost their ALS family members show a marked tendency to live alone. They tend to spend their time working or going out. 2) The time needed to restore a room in which an ALS family member had been at home, and thus for a home to return to normal day to day life, is about one year. This is triggered by the return of rentals or Buddhist rituals. 3) After the death of an ALS patient, the way in which a house is restored can be roughly classified into four types, namely, restoration, partial restoration, reconstruction, and no change. Most bereaved families undertook reconstruction. This trend was more frequently seen in urban LDK-type houses.

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This research clarified the fact how residents of the prefabricated-temporary houses built after the 1963 Skopje Earthquake have modified their housing units during this 50 years after the construction in accordance with their family situation, sequence of lifestages and the local climate feature in Skopje, through documental survey and interviews to residents.Through field survey, we observed drastic change of floor plan with enlargement of floor space, or installation of sun shades or flying roofs in order to regulate sun shine, but on the other hand found the residents state their being satisfied by the living in the so-called prefab-barracks and highly evaluate quality of the prefab-barracks.

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This study investigates on the applying feasibility of Jacobs urban theory to the living amenity of common Japanese urban area in respect of its robustness. As results, as for the spatial robustness it is also applicable to the bigness and suburbs, and as for temporal robustness it is steadily succeeded by a huge variety of activity groups. Moreover her way of thinking of “innovation” is revealed and seems to be sympathized with the SETC activity in Boston. Thorough the correspondence with a researcher of religion, her theory is considered to be a criticism to the modern urban planning in respect of “time”.

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This study tries to find the effective discretionary design review system from the implementation of Canadian cities, which has zoning system from U.S. as a prescribed regulation and was also influenced from U.K.’s urban planning law or French law. Case study cities were selected from the cities, which has over 500,000 populations. In some cities, citizen’s voices were not reflected on the project by the province’s strong power. But the other cities, design review system is effective for decreasing the impact to the neighborhood and make the development plan nicer and improved. Interestingly, some cities had a trial period for the new design review system.

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Akasaka Palace was originally constructed as the Crown Prince’s Palace in 1909. This study aims to clarify the actual processes of creating the interior decoration and furniture. There are 3 main findings. 1)Artistic textiles made for the building are considered based on the decorative plan and its function. 2)Interior design and furniture were mostly allocated to Japanese artisans while the ceiling paintings were made in France. 3)Décor and the usage of the building before World WarⅡ.

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The building control based on Building Standard Law is provided in the urbanization control area. Article 41 of City Planning Act is a system that can apply the building control if necessary with development permission. This study aims to clarify the nationwide situation of the operation and to understand the problem in operation, by paying attention to this system having a lot of discretion in the application of the restriction. As a result, we clarify that Article 41 of the City Planning Act is able to apply building control flexible in 3411 districts where the restriction of development permit system is eased in the Urbanization Control Area. On the other hand, we also clarify that operation is not appropriately done even when the application criterion is settled on. Based on these, this study proposes the ideal of Article 41 of City Planning Act.

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This article aims to analyze the supply trends in high-rise condominiums in Tokyo since 2000 and clarify the modes of expression in the advertisements designed for people to purchase these condominiums, using social theories of consumption. A scrutiny of these advertisements demonstrates that the modes of expression are constructed by the uneasy narratives stemming from the huge size and height specific to high-rise towers as well as the clichéd narratives about their facilities, safety and comfortableness. In addition, examining the conditions and narratives of high-rise condominiums in Manhattan, we offer a perspective for the comparative studies of high-rise condominiums.

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This study explored support method for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 based on experience of support activity for improvement of housing environment in temporary houses and examined reasons which realized the activity despite of limited resources. 1) Relationships of “support for supporters” was created based on sharing aid information among various support actors in the process of exploring correspondence to problems which cannot be solved by each actors. 2) “Trust” for others (supporters/other residents) are fostered and utilized in the process of decision-making under the uncertain situation.

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This study is aimed to clarify evaluation indexes of enrich of housing based on the actual situation of the general city area. I analyzed statistics data, and carried out fact-finding in a general city area and plan city area. According to it directly by using evaluation indexes 1)basic performance of house, 2)convenience of the housing environment, 3)relationship with the family. However, it became clear that it was necessary to set an attribute, residence experience, sense of values and the secondary index that compounded, because resources of housing were various than a plan city area.

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About 60% of vernacular private houses as important cultural assets by national government (Jyubun Minka) are owned by individuals. They have special problems about maintenance, preservation and effective use of them. In this paper, we examined problems of Jyubun 0Minka from the questionnaire surveys for house owners and local government staffs and considered the potential to educate supporters for Jyubun Minka in the local community. The main findings are as follows. 1) Many elderly house owners maintain Jyubun Minka by themselves. 2)To educate supporters for Jyubun Minka ,it is important to make the learning opportunity for local residents to deepen the understanding of cultural values of Jyubun Minka.

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In Korea, wooden house construction increases recently. Furthermore, Korean government started post and beam house development projects. This study focuses on Happiness Village Project (HVP) in Jeollanamdo. HVP uses traditional design post and beamhouses to increase population in suburban areas. This study discusses the housing system of HVP, using data from the interviews with almost 40 companies and association in Jeollanamdo, including Jeollanamdo Provincial Government, carpenters, lumber mills, in particular 20 wooden contractors. Thus this study pointed out the characteristics of rules, wooden contractors, and house specifications in HVP.

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In this study, I was analyzed the renewal of the houses at built-up area where detached house is majority. As a result, the major renewal was appropriated the living affairs of family. Recently, the inherited living by family would be difficultly. And, home building and site division by inheritance have been conducted. And, home building and site division by inheritance have been conducted. As a conclusion, there are 2% individual renewals for a year, but, if these cases gathered, good residential environment is not always formed. The agenda are the derivation of constructing and correspondence to the operation and maintenance.

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This study is intended clarifying the scientific grounds of the biodeterioration diagnosis judgement by tapping sound in the wooden house and to build the biodeterioration diagnosis judgement system based on the result. The knowledge about vibration properties of the decayed parts was obtained about each specification. As a result of inspection experiment for the wooden construction using the biodeterioration diagnosis system built in this study, the ratio of false diagnosis was able to confirm that it was a level to endure practical use.

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