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This 5 page report discusses the design of a home based on certain architectural principles that also represent the idea of a building to be similar to that of the human body -- roof as backbone, inner area as belly, porch as head, and so on. Aspects of Japanese, Irish, and Oceania design are incorporated. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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sensibilities of the Irish and those of the Japanese regarding the family home. Interestingly, both cultures have an understanding of the actual physical home as an outgrowth or manifestation of
family relationships and the ways in which certain modes of thinking relate to how a home is designed. Architecture can reflect the sensibilities of a peoples understanding regarding their place
on the planet. One group may need to have their door face the east in order to assure that the sun enters the house when it rises. Another group may
want to assure that their homes face the setting sun in order to assure that their home is the last thing seen by the life-giving sun. Each of these factors
must be considered if one is to design a house that suits both the physical and spiritual needs of its inhabitants. It serves as a way of connecting a living
space with the actual physical attributes of those who will inhabit it. That may then lead to a greater harmony and understanding between physical structure and human existence. The Maori
Meeting House The Maori Meeting House serves as an excellent example of the point being made regarding the connection between the individual human being and the human beings relationship to
both community and structure. Sissons (1998) explains that in many circumstances it was the meeting house in Maori culture that served as "alternatives to churches and as venues for large
intertribal gatherings" (pp. 36). Therefore, it also served as an example of how a public building could be constricted and the ways in which it could reflect much more of
a people than simply a gathering place. In addition, the actual structure of the meeting house was one that encouraged an expansion beyond what was accepted as mainstream and allowed
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