Research on the transformation of living environment of 3 villages in kii Oshima Island where depopulation and aging tendency is bearing on inhabitants daily life

This study focuses on finding the specific characteristics of three villages in a小岛屿名称oshima,The survey took place for four years自2001. Analysis of built environment wasdone through the basic data of house plans and their spatial structures as well as the recentphenomena of transformations in terms of dwelling environment.Wakayama is a mountainous prefecturein Japan and surrounded by the stormy Pacific Ocean.他们有过漫长的历史在suchgeographical environment and been adapted to microclimatic conditions. In这两个decades，inhabitants are facing many problems such as depopulation, inconveniences of daily life，hard for achieving barrier free design. They of course已关闭关系其他asneighborhood and share a common dwelling environment. But once you try to观察their subtlefeature,you can find local characteristics which identify each village as their irreplaceable villagersnatal音译。

This study focuses on finding the specific characteristics of three villages in a small Island named Oshima, (Wakayama Pref.). The survey took place for four years since 2001. Analysis of built environment was done through the basic data of house plans and their spatial structures as well as the recent phenomena of transformations in terms of dwelling environment.Wakayama is a mountainous prefecture in Japan and surrounded by the stormy Pacific Ocean. They have had long history of dwelling in such geographical environment and have been adapted to microclimatic conditions. In these two decades, inhabitants are facing many problems such as depopulation, inconveniences of daily life, hard for achieving barrier free design. They of course have close relationship each other as neighborhood and share a common dwelling environment. But once you try to observe their subtle feature, you can find local characteristics which identify each village as their irreplaceable villagers ・ natal place.