JOURNAL OF THE HOUSING RESEARCH FOUNDATION "JUSOKEN"
Online ISSN : 2423-9895
Print ISSN : 2187-8188
ISSN-L : 2187-8188
Volume 41
Displaying 1-21 of 21 articles from this issue
  • about preservation of traditional grass field in IUCHI and survey on restoration of local residential environment
    Atsushi Sasaki, Takemichi Tsurumi, Takushi Murayama, Mitsuhiro Miyamot ...
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 229-240
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate how the traditional silver grass field and cooperative system called“KOU”has been inherited by small village“IUCHI”, Ehime prefecture in Japan, and we revealed its true figure historically and socially. We also investigated about the relationships between“KOU”system and village society, which has never been a study subject, and extracted a certain feature of locality here. Besides this we survey how we can study from this historical cooperative system and adapt it into the present social crisis called“no community”.
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  • cooperation of the administration and building-materials industry in housing supply of 1955-1975's Japan
    Masahisa Kato, Kazuo Wakaki, Tadashi Katayama
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 241-252
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    We have compiled the transition of standardization, such as quality improvement and test methods of building materials that supported the housing supply in 1955-1975’s Japan. This research showed that administration and building materials industry take the role on quality improvement of the building materials. Administration and industry cooperated, performing industrialization and technical development, studied quality control and test method and standardized the result steadily. They succeeded in leaving a big track record to the quality improvement of building materials and homes.
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  • children's perspectives on moving from “boats for living” to “dormitories for learning”
    Kanae Atsu, Miki Fujiwara, Miyoko Fujikawa
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 1-11
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    This study examined educational welfare facilities built for water dwellers' children, a unique space that occupies a social gap between water- and land-dwelling. Employing approaches of architectural history, cultural anthropology, and folkloristics, the study concentrated on the viewpoints of children, the actual users of these facilities. Results indicated that the water dwellers focused on in this study resettled on land mostly due to natural or human-caused disasters and law amendments. Furthermore, rather than prompting water dwellers to relocate on land, school education and educational welfare facilities have served to expand the range of future choices available to children.
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  • activity in Kamaishi and Rikuzentakata of Iwate Prefecture
    Shigeo Kobayashi, Masahide Kakudate, Hiroshi Mae
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 13-23
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    The importance of evacuation to higher ground away from a tsunami safely at night has been recognized right after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. This research examined the lighting plannings in Rikuzentakata and Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture which promots evacuation on heights from tsunami at night. From investigations of the escape routes for evacuees and experiments at the entrance of evacuation destinations, it was found that a series of lights placed along the evacuation paths in the direction toward higher ground could guide evacuees effectively to the safe areas. One of principal methods of the evacuation lighting to higher ground is visualizing geographical features and the characteristics of evacuation areas by lights. The reasonable and energy efficient lighting could be realized by designing according to the required performances for each location.
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  • a comparative study between Japan and Scotland
    Masakazu Tanaka, Yoko Narisada
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 25-36
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    This project aims to compare Japanese and British cases of house-sharing and analyze “interactive subjectivity” in both Japanese and British societies. House-sharing in Japan is a new phenomenon, and is considered as a individual reaction to economic depression. It is considered as a transitional stage from less independent to fully independent life with one’s own family. However, our findings suggest more social implications. Those who live with “others” can develop a sensitive consideration to the other. Our analysis of British cases shows a radically different concept of self than an individualistic one.
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  • towards an intersubjective approach for“housing lives”
    Taro Hirai, Yasushi Sukenari
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 37-48
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    In this sociological research, we explore the process of subjectification in the Japanese condominium. Firstly, we point out two ideal types of subject-image,‘consumer’and ‘citizen’, in legislative discourse on condominium management Secondly, we refer to literature on housing regimes and propose a sociological framework on plurality and plasticity of housing provision. Thirdly, we describe the process of reflexive discussions between sociologists and owner-occupiers of a large scale condominium complex named “White Hill”in the suburb of Tokyo. Consequently, we can share the understanding (we call “demystification”process) that their organizational subjectification can be seen as bureaucratization in Japanese corporatism.
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  • surveys on insulation and airtight constructuon in houses for victims of great east Japan earthquake
    Motoya Hayashi, Yoshinori Honma, Kenichi Hasegawa
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 49-60
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    The aim of this study is to use the building environmental performance as a base of healthy life of victims after great east Japan earthquake in 2011. The environmental performances of the houses for victims were investigated using questionnaires and measurements. The results showed that the performance varied and are not enough for the latest building code for energy saving in some cases under the high housing demand. An easy measurement method using a fan in kitchen is proposed and the performance was checked. The method was expected to be a method to expand the airtight houses for victims.
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  • experimental investigation using simulated realistic wind loads and assembled specimens
    Eri Gavanski, Yasushi Uematsu, Yasuo Okuda, Hiroaki Nishiniura
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 61-72
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    Wall cladding materials on residential buildings are one of the most frequently damaged structural components during severe wind events. In order to mitigate this damage, the current study aims to suggest a wind resistance evaluation method of such wall components. In order to achieve this purpose, was necessary to carry out full-scale breakage tests where dynamic fluctuating wind loadings were applied on the assembled specimens consisted from multiple components actually used in the residential building wall system In this report, full-scale breakage testing devices specifically designed for the present research test results from full-scale breakage test and the research plan in order to achieve the original objective of this research are mainly summarized.
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  • future vision for sustainable housing recovery model
    Tamiyo Kondo, Yuka Karatani
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 73-83
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    This research clarify that “Individual Self-help Housing Recovery with Relocation” transform the structure of built environment in coastal area after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The addition of individual self-help housing reconstruction and relocation cannot avoid scattering and sprawl which is physically unsustainable. Housing recovery with the perspective of spatial planning technique by utilizing survivors' resilience is required to pursue sustainable disaster recovery.
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  • a case study about POSKO in Indonesia
    Tomoki Motozuka, Titin Fatimah
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 85-96
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    Disaster Prevention is important that not only to develop strong and robust infrastructure but also to make flexible response society. POSKO, the temporary stronghold, is frequently set up for any kinds of temporary function and often activated in post natural disaster relief or at emergency time in Indonesia. This paper aims to verify the adaptive governance in POSKOs. The result of analysis is as follows: 1) the characteristics of POSKO were able to cope with a difficult situation. 2) POSKOs were operated in areas that have been setup. Each POSKOs prevented relaxation of the support imbalance in these areas.
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  • Hirohisa Ito, Shigetomo Kikuchi, Eiko Minoura, Mizuki Ito
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 97-108
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    This study elucidated the actual situation and characteristic of the socio = spatial structure of“Cho”and“Nagare”, while paying attention to the multilayer nature of the territorial connections in Hakata. At same time, this study elucidated the transformation process of the socio = spatial structure in the modern times. The festival organization or“Nagare”was placed on the bottom of the administrative structure as a pillar of the territorial connections throughout the early modern times. However, new territorial connections were introduced in the form of administrative districts and the school wards during the Meiji period. Therefore, “Nagare”was reinstalled as the festival organization. The socio = spatial structure of Hakata has transformed from the north and south structure of“Nagare”to the east and west structure of the new territorial connections with the influence of modern urban infrastructure.
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  • efforts toward inheritance of ‘Mano Community Development’ and creation of new strategy
    Koh Inui, Koyo Fukagawa, Hiroaki Konno, Kikuo Nishibori, Yuji Miyanisi ...
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 109-120
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    Mano Area in Kobe City has been receiving attention as a pioneer case of local community organization led by ‘Mano Area Association for Promotion of Community Development’ for fifty years. However, Mano Area, as the cases in other areas, is faced with aging of leaders, stagnant activities and gap between young generation and local organization. This paper aims to clarify the current situation and challenges by questionnaire survey to all households, to revitalize the organization and to produce a new community leader by action research. The survey successfully revealed the importance of local community as a basic autonomous unit, the possibility of contribution to the community development by families with small children and the polarization in patterns of new comers. The action research achieved to raise awareness of community people.
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  • Kiyori Harato, Natsumi Kiguchi, Osamu Oba
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 121-132
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    In this study, we have focused on the confiscated houses, the house of the military officers’ family in Kyoto during the occupied period of Japan. We have made researches on historical records about the confiscated houses which are stored at Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives. We have also researched on extant houses and had an interview with the owners of confiscated houses. Nearly half the military officers’ family lived together with the Japanese owners’ family in Kyoto. The confiscated houses in Kyoto consisted of not only western-style houses but also traditional Japanese-style houses. The allied forces remodeled these houses with good equipment, without changing the layout of the houses. The western lifestyle brought by the allied forces into the Japanese houses gave a strong impact on the Japanese lifestyle of the owners of the confiscated houses.
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  • about development by the dwelling unit use
    Nobuhiro Yamada, Shinobu Fujita
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 133-143
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    This study concerns regional care programs that provide in-home care and support within public housing . Having surveyed the implementation of such programs in order to achieve an understanding of their key elements, the research highlights the benefits and difficulties of such programs, drawing on evaluations by users, residents in the same residential blocks, and those from the wider regional area. It stipulates that, with the increase in regional welfare support programs of various types, including programs pertaining to residential care for those with disabilities, lifestyle support and supervision for the elderly, support programs organized by local residents, and so on, individual residences within public housing are eminently feasible as sites for such regional care programs and do not present an obstruction to carrying out activities. Moreover, it is also noted that in-home care has the subsidiary effect of revitalizing local residential communities. Equipment and transport costs for in-home programs are less than are those for new external care facilities; furthermore, they also make it simpler for NPO or social welfare organizations to initiate such programs. The study concludes that an attitude of proactive support for such programs from agencies responsible for public housing should be sought to prepare for an increase in the number of homes where such programs are carried out.
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  • analyzing living environment aimed at smooth transition to permanent residences
    Kishie Shigekawa, Satoshi Tanaka, Hiroko Koumoto, Shousuke Satoh
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 145-156
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    Approximately 136,000 temporary housings were provided in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Half of them were designated temporary housings. They played important roles of avoiding prolonged evacuation and cutting public funds. It was revealed that disaster victims had independently achieved life restoration based on their proactive choices in acquiring permanent housings. Meanwhile, local governments had experienced confusion due to lack of precedent operational knowledge. The system was implemented as part of providing temporary housing based on the Disaster Relief Act. However, it was limited to operate within the framework of the law. A new system is required for future disasters.
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  • Hyunju Cho, Mitsuo Takada, Sachiko Oshima, Motoko Suzumori, Masataka B ...
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 157-168
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    This study examines the current state and issues of the housing information as well as the role of the public and private sector in supporting housing information, and considers the way of supporting housing information for the realization of SUMITSUGI. Main results of this research are as follows. The public sector provides information on housing assistance and basic knowledge for low- and middle-income, based on the public sector's credibility and neutrality. The private and public & private sector, meanwhile, carry out a support that helps high-income to solve individual problems. However, The public sector, with the stance of being public, is limited in terms of the response to individual needs. The private and public & private sector also have problems on information fairness and loss, coming from the pursuit of profits. In the future, it is necessary to build a partnerships between the public and private sectors in supporting housing information, and to consider role assignments between them at the same time.
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  • involvement in city planning based on research on the remaining fishermen's houses
    Sadamasa Komaki, Kouji Kobayashi, Yuich Yamanouchi
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 169-179
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: August 10, 2017
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    The aim of this research is to make an analysis of the features of each area in Hokkaido, through researching the current condition of fishermen's houses built between the Edo period and the 1950's. The research covers 285 fisherman’s houses. Some of the buildings were previously surveyed, either in 1970 by the Hokkaido Government Board of Education or in 2010 by the Architectural Institute of Japan.The research concludes that out of the 65 houses from the 1970’s, only 30 houses remain. Most of these houses were found in the Shiribeshi area where herring fisherman’s houses are treated as tangible culture assets. In the Shiribeshi area, 16 out of 27 houses(60%) remain.I also introduce a house of herring fishing in the Syukutsu area in Otaru and Utasutsu in Suttu as an example of utilizing a historical fisherman's house.The Ibaraki family’s fisherman’s house in the Shukutsu district is utilized as an activity space for children with the support of NPOs. The house of the Sato family in Suttsu has been under repair work. It has also been under investigation as a heritage of herring fishing. Future utilization of the house has been discussed at the same time.
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  • Shin Nakajima, Akiko Tanaka, Kosei Hatsuda
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 181-192
    Published: 2015
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    In this paper, we bring out the achievements of Jonan Housing Union since 1924. As a result of historical surveys, it hasn’t advanced residential district but cottage area at first. The turning point was the payment in kind of the land by the landowner since 1955. Therefore, Jonan Housing Union has weakened joint tenancy by gradation. On the other hand, they continued as organization to aim for conservation of residential environments with community activity.
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  • a case study SICAP BAOBAB in Dakar, Senegal supplied in 1950s
    Ayako Maeshima, Junko Tamura, Haruka Kajihara, Tomohito Okuda, Norihis ...
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 193-204
    Published: 2015
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    This research discusses the secular changes in the variations of modern housing estate in Senegal, Africa. The study was conducted by first, understanding the original architectural planning and building systems through series of drawings and images. Second, on-site interviews to the residents and visual observations were made to document today’s conditions and the transformation process of houses within BAOBAB estate. Third, network analysis and multivariate statistics approach were applied to understand the modified floor plans in relative to its functional characteristics in the rental housing units. Finally, this study evaluates the findings by discussing the above understandings of secular changes in the BAOBAB estate.
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  • an example about community garden type land use
    Noriko Akita, Gakuto Takamura, Takatoshi Muneno
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 205-216
    Published: 2015
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    Community garden has the function which a community acquires autonomy and to secure the public responsibility of space. In this research, it was shown clearly from four examples that a “place”called community garden is brewing the autonomy of a community, and that relation by collaboration work and the positive area of a subject is improving the public responsibility of space.
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  • reality and potential of independent tree-type mixed function housing with continued residence by owner families
    Sumiko Ohashi, Nobuko Matsumoto, Masaki Setoguchi
    2015 Volume 41 Pages 217-228
    Published: 2015
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    This study targeted housing with combined rentals jointly constructed with rental housing. It clarified construction conditions, effects on urban areas as well as uses and application and residents and the reality of the neighboring community, and investigated planning conditions and future potential. The results of the study showed an increasing trend around 40% of condominiums in Higashi-Tamagawa/Okuzawa. There was some rental of ‘One More Home’ properties as proposed 20 years ago but, at present, there have been no changes of residence for owner families. The existence of owners who have been resident for a long time links to consideration for residents, the neighborhood and the local area. Housing with combined rentals which has created a buffer for owner families has the potential to be a buffer for the area.
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