La Casa En "campo De Arroz". Un Ideograma De Interacción En El Hábitat Japonés Contemporáneo

Abstract

The "rice paddy" arrangement, or division of the space of the house into four parts, following the kanji ideogram "TA" of Chinese origin, was the typological model of the popular traditional house in Japan, whose arrangement generated strong bonds within the family group. The recent appearance of a new generation of architects which, after SANAA, seeks to recover the family interaction in the small urban houses of the fabric of cities, such as Tokyo, coincides with a recurrent reappearance of the arrangement of the home in the form of a "TA". A form transferred, now, to a spatial model that is free of the strict codes that characterized the traditional house. In recent years, these small houses have tended to open themselves up to the urban fabric, expressing the interest for interaction with the community beyond family life, as opposed to the opacity that had characterized the works of the previous generation of architects. Therefore, the use of the ideogram in the form of a "rice paddy" persists as a benchmark device in the contemporary Japanese habitat.