伝統的建造物群保存地区制度成立に至る議論から見た集落の保存概念

Abstract

This paper aims to clarify preservation concepts of villages in the policy establishing process of preservation districts for groups of traditional buildings (hereinafter the Denken policy). The following three points were clarified. 1. The discussion about the relation among a preserved building, its regional bond and its surrounding environment developed the following new three policies in the law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 1975. 1) enablement to designate the building site and its relating properties ( Clause 1, Article 2 ), 2) environmental conservation (Clause 1, Article 45) and 3) preservation districts for groups of traditional buildings (Clause 6, Article 2 and Article 142) 2. Ahead of the Denken policy, villages were preserved as historic sites by so called a freeze-preservation method; nevertheless, there were research theories and flexible conservation concepts to deal with "living" historic sites as whole historic living environments. 3. In the early period of the policy establishing process of the Denken policy, there were preservation concepts to define a historic living environment as a whole and preserve a special exterior district as part of it.