A STUDY ON THE WATER USE AND THE ARCHITECTURAL SPACE IN THE CANAL SETTLEMENTS : Research in the two settlements of Shiga

Recent years, the concern for familiar natural environment rises and the importance of "Waterside" is recognized again. Therefore, in the creation of the waterside environment in the future, gives priority to the 'Relations between person and water' and it is pointed out that the approach that catches an environmental component of the waterside in the large area is necessary. Then, it is thought that it will obtain a premeditated suggestion the water environment in the future is created because it understands the ideal way of the water environment through the village where the relation between this waterway and spring water is seen. In this research pays attention to the local populace centers on the canal and relations with water and clarified the form, the function for the water supply as the water environment, the water space, and the ideal way of construction, how to live, and the approval of the lifestyle. Result, in the future the lifestyle will change but, various restrictions received from water is influence the space composition of the array of arrangement of the existence of the riverside and the dwelling and the main rooms, the compositions, and the entire villages from local populace's life act.