A STUDY ON THE LANDSCAPE CHANGES AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE DWELLERS RE-BUILDING IN THE TOWN HOUSE ESTATES:Focusing on the analysis of re-buildings of the townhouse estates in Kobe city

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the landscape changes that are caused on the re-buildings by dwellers in the townhouse estates in Kobe city. We analyzed 8 estates in new towns in Kobe city, and we carried out the observation of the dweller’s rebuildings and made the questionnaires for the dwellers about the motives of the re-buildings and the landscape in estates. The results are as follows : 1) There are many re-buildings in the cases and the amount differs from the development time, dweller’s attributes, and the rules by the management associations. 2) The motives of re-buildings are classified in 3 types, as living demands, fabric oldness, design taste. 3) There is assimilate design to the total landscape at the beginning and dissimilate design to the living landscape.