Yoshihisa Wakita

• Doctor of Engineering
• Professor at Kindai University

Bayan Village on Lombok Island is a tourist village that preserves the traditions of the Sasak-Bayan tribe. The potential of this village lies in the agricultural sector and local products. However, earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic have hindered the village's development. Therefore, rural area planning is needed for sustainable development. On...

Bayan Village on Lombok Island is a tourist village that preserves the traditions of the Sasak-Bayan tribe. The potential of this village lies in the agricultural sector and local products. However, earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic have hindered the village's development. Therefore, rural area planning is needed for sustainable development. On...

This study aimed to clarify spatial structure of terraced paddy fields in Desa Bayan located in Lombok Island, Indonesia as an example of cultural landscape of the island. The survey extent was defined by collecting up all waterways from a water source in a sacred forest ( Hutan Adat ) which supply water to traditional paddy fields called Sawah Ada...

This study sought to clarify the transformation and succession of the historical environment of Cakranegara, a historical Indonesian city based on the following viewpoints: 1) transformation of building lots and their uses; 2) utilization of space on the streets; and 3) proposing appropriate indices to evaluate the historical environment of Cakrane...

There are many unique living environments in Southeast Asia. Those environments often suffer from natural disasters. Support for rebuilding lives in rural villages is provided by a government, international organizations and NGOs. However, it is told that those support destroy the traditional way of living in impacted areas. This study spotlight to...

Alleyways are functional not only as passages but also as space for complementing inhabitants’ needs of their daily activities and for communication with neighbors. Plenty of alleyways are formulated inside the shophouse blocks in the central area of Phnom Penh. It is utilized as both private and public space by inhabitants whereas underlying princ...

City blocks in the central district of Phnom Penh are composed of shophouses, defined as “shophouse blocks” in this study, fulfilled with mixed environment of inhabitants’ living and commercial activities. However, these blocks are in the process of reorganization due to redevelopment by plottage of multiple shophouses. It is concerned that current...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the current situation of housing damage and living space in the initial period toward recovery after the Lombok earthquake which occurred in July and August, 2018. Our field survey was conducted on Bayan village, northern part of Lombok one month after the earthquake. While many houses of masonry structure we...

City blocks composed of Shophouses in the central district of Phnom Penh, which is referred to as the “Shophouse blocks”, is facing a risk of losing the built environment due to rapid urbanization recent years. It is important to grasp spatial urban structure to properly identify characteristics of shophouse blocks and its functions to sustain char...

The aims of this study are to clarify the current situation of sound environment and feelings and image evoked by the sound at Tomoi area in Higashi-Osaka city, selected as a case study of built-up area rapidly developed in 1960s. The sound in the built-up area is broadly classified into two categories; the one produced in exterior space and the ot...

Padang is the provincial capital of West Sumatra, Indonesia, and was affected by the earthquake that occurred in September 2009. UNESCO and the Indonesian government conducted an emergency survey of the damage. While the municipality of Padang is trying to promote and conserve the area as Kawasan Cagar Budaya, there are various difficulties, especi...

Townscape of central area in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is formulated by two– or three–storied shophouses which were built after 1960’s. Vacant flat rooftop of those shophouses is currently occupied by residents as their living space. One of the common cases of such occupation is to extend the highest floor to possess rooftop floors for their own use, w...

The aim of this study is to clarify the transition of townscape in the historic area in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia through the continuous surveys of the rehabilitation process of 2009 Sumatra Earthquake. Padang is a provincial capital of West Sumatra which faces to the Indian Ocean and has a history as the Dutch East India Company's trading po...

This study aims to evaluate impacts on living environment caused by the on-site slum improvement program implemented in Borei Keila district in Phnom Penh, Cambodia through interview survey to the residents who were relocated to collective housings built by the program. At first, changes of general living conditions were confirmed quantitatively....

This study aims to clarify spatial composition of residential environment which was spontaneously created in squatter area along drainage channel in Steung Mean Cheay in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Occupation by dwellers was started in 1985 forming residential area above drainage channel and lands along with the channel. As of 2011, there are 75 househol...

抄録 The aim of this study is to clarify the method of community design education for elementary school students by focusing on a case study of ‘Machidukuri for children on Karahori’. We have tried to bring into the action for three years from 2008 to 2010. In this paper we could describe the key concepts of the program and workshop methods for commu...

The aim of this study is to clarify the space organization and space utilization of Anlong Ta Uor village, Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. We extracted 100 raft houses by fieldwork and analyzed them. The raft house consists of four spaces, front veranda, living room, private rooms and backside veranda. We can classify these houses in five house types and...

This study had the aim of explaining the mechanisms of autonomous spatial recomposition of shophouses in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), along with understanding the current status of spatial recomposition of these dwellings based on a field survey. Four detailed case studies were chosen for analysis and it was discovered that three points can be raised as...

The aim of this study is to clarify the exterior space utilization on the urban blocks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We conclude the results as blow from the data mostly based on the field survey. The contents of the first floor on the urban blocks consist of 1.restaurants, 2.retailer, 3.service industry, 4.factory, 5.house. Concerning on the relation b...

The aim of this study is to clarify the space organization of the shophouse and the block formation in Daun Penh area, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We analyze the space formation of the house and the housing complex on fifty-five houses, and the formation of housing lots and alleys on the thirty blocks by the field survey. We clarify three types of the sh...

Vigan is one of the most preserved Spanish colonial towns in the Philippines. Founded as a Spanish town in 1574, Vigan became a commercial- and industrial center of the northern Luzon region, prospered with natives, Chinese, and Chinese mestizos. The wealthy mestizos in 19^ century built costly residence called bahay na bato (house of stone). In De...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the learning program and background of citizen participated planning, studying the case on Matsue Community Design Seminar. We clarify ten features about leaning program as below. 1. relationship with public sector, 2. various participator, 3. continuing learning, 4. picking up concrete project as theme, 5. l...

Vigan is one of the most preserved Spanish colonial towns in the Philippines. With numerous historical buildings and houses, UNESCO registered Vigan as the World Heritage in December 1999. As an entrepot flourished by Chinese mestizo residents, Vigan forms an amalgam of native, Chinese and Spanish cultural landscape. The public spaces such as the p...

This paper aims to clarify the formation and transformation process of Chowringhee district in Calcutta, India based on the field survey. Chowringhee district which is now located in central business district of Calcutta is well known as the living quater developed for the English high officials of East India Company. The residences in which the En...

The purpose of this study is to clarify how a community development evolve by academic network engaged in various specialty. We focus on the activity of Community lab. In Matsue city. Concerning on the evolution of activity, we clarify five characteristics, 1. Converting from lecture to practice, 2. New idea coming out thorough practice, 3. Making...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the transitional process of the urban plan on castle towns in the modern period. Selectiong the city of Mastue as a case study area, we analyze the distribution of the urban facilities and transiton of street network. We clarified the following five points. 1) center of the castle town functioned also as a ci...

The purpose of this study is to consider the principles of space formation in the houses, villages and cities, focusing on the cosmology that decide physical arrangement. We selected Cakranegara city in Lombok island, Indonesia, as a case study. Cakranegara was built as a colonial city of Karanngasem Kingdom in Bali in 18th century. We guess Cakran...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the principles of space formation of Madurese houses, house compounds and villages. In Indonesia, many settlements of Proto-Malay tribes like Batak, Toraja are formed as parallel disposition pattern. Madurese settlements also follow the same pattern. Compared to the settlements of other tribes, Madurese settl...

The purpose of this study is to consider the principles of space formation in the houses, villages and cities, focusing on the cosmology that decide physical arrangement. We selected Cakranegara city in Lombok island, Indonesia, as a case study. Cakranegara was built as a colonial city of Karanngasem Kingdom in Bali in 18th century. We guess Cakran...

Kampung Improvement Program(KIP) is a well-known project for improving living environments in urban residential area in Indonesia. One of the most important concerns that has come about as a result of KIP is the need to establish a new urban housing model considering the redevelopment plans for Kampungs in the next stage. This paper tries to evalua...

The purpose of this study is to consider the principles of space formation of houses, villages and the cities focusing on the cosmology that decide physical arrangement. We selected Cakranegara in Lombok island, Indonesia, as a case study. Lombok island attracts us from several view points. As is well known, there runs Wallace line between Lombok a...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the orientation system of holy places and the settlements in Lombok island, Indonesia. Kemaliq is a holy place for the waktu telu, indigenous muslim in Lombok island. Pura is a holy place for the Bali-Hindu. In pura people pray to the north or the direction of Mt. Rinjani. In kemaliq people pray to the north,...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the space organization of the settlemerits in DESA BAYAN in Lombok Island. Three types of the settlements are found in Lombok Island. We focus on DESA BAYAN,one of the northern type settlements in these three types. The settlements are consist of houses, BERUGAK and granaries. Houses and BERUGAK are laid in l...

Recently, the population of Phnom Penh has been increasing. To make urban growth successful, making the development strategy will be important. On the other side, there are many historic buildings called“shophouses”,which will need to be preserved in the future. However,there are few studies to deal with them. Thus,this paper aims to grasp the spat...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the area that continues keeping historic environment of Miyajima Town,Hatsukaichi-City,Hiroshima. On the basis of an alley and the field survey of the Jizo Bon festival,we emphasize the nothion of the space use in the outside space. On historic environment, we are concerned with analysis of the role that a f...

This report clarifies the development of the education method for training class enforcement of the fieldwork type in the area outside the university. In concreteness, this report performs the class enforcement and the development at the Miyajima learning center of the Hiroshima Institute of Technology. The main contents are as follows: （1） the adj...