Abstract
The relationship between certain ways in which the traditional Japanese house is used and the achievement of personal comfort is discussed using information drawn from field research observations, measured drawings and documentary photographs. The economy of means which characterises traditional Japanese building techniques is described where relevant. Houses are seen as cultural manifestations inside which occupants find comfort in a complex of objects and behaviour having little to do with the control of air temperature. The traditional Japanese house is presented as contradicting some of the more established notions we in the West have of a climatically attuned architecture.
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