DESIGN OF SHADOW AND SHADE IN JAPANESE TRADITIONAL SPACE

In this paper we tried to draw a framework and conceputual model about shadow and shade in landscape to give new design vocabularies to urban design works. These subjects are studied by the essay. We interprete the conceputual meaning of shadows by refering sentences and words in famous essay “Praise of Shadows” written by Jyunichiro TANIZAKI to real traditional space. As a result we can get characteristic shadows such as mild lights filterd by “shoji”, darkness on hollow spaces of traditional room, lights and shades on the sand wall of traditional tearoom and shadows of roofs and eaves.