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STUDY ON THE MEMORY-EVOKING FRAMEWORK OF SAWARA, MERCANTILE HISTORIC CITY AT WATERY ENVIRONMENT

2014; Architectural Institute of Japan; Volume: 79; Issue: 705 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3130/aija.79.2443

1881-8161

Aya Kubota,

Urban and spatial planning

Sawara is a mercantile historic city at watery environment along the Tone River, which had been flourished from Edo era to the middle of Showa Era. Some parts of it have been designated as cultural property, namely a preservation district for a group of historic buildings. Through minute interviews of local people, the memory-evoking framework of Sawara is clarified. It consists of four conditions, 1) disappearance, 2) surviving figure, 3) inherited use, and 4) correspondence of memory and historicity. The memory-evoking framework and the system of historic value are very similar to but different each other. The local community can imagine how the life was in their habitat just by touching their surroundings. Not just the historic environment that is already put in the formal preservation system, but also the fabrics with collective memories of local people are important to succeed the meaning of its lived environment.