Abstract of Master’s Thesis Academic Year 2016

The Study of Succession using BIM in Traditional Houses of Taiwanese Aboriginals: In the Case of Traditional Houses of Tao People in Orchid Island
Summary :In every region of the world, there have been increasing cases facing a difficult
problem of how to maintain the locality and develop it in this globalizing society.
People, goods and capital come and go frequently all over the regions, and people’svalues have been homogenized with the expansion of social networks. In the field ofarchitecture, it is getting hard to find the characteristics of the region
The number of traditional houses in Orchid Island of Taiwan, which is the subject
site of this research, has also been declining. When I first visited this island, I felt avague sense of discomfort while seeing the row of houses of no-traditional and illassorted at all, this sense has triggered the start of this research. And I felt the orchid’s
people seems to have the conflicts between the idea of conservation of traditional
houses and not having been doing so.
Many of the traditional buildings use local materials, construction techniques andown spatial style also fit the place. In addition, traditional architecture contains a lot ofregional cultural thought and it also can be said as an accumulation of the greatancestral wisdom, While preservation activities of traditional architecture are seen invarious places for the purpose of cultural protection, The aim of this research is tobuild out the methodology of cultural succession in traditional houses in Orchid Island.
Through the observation of participants at the construction site and hearing survey
at the region, I discovered that the problem of the decline of the succession of
traditional houses was due to "the vulnerability of the foundation for the tradition
succession and the change of values "In the past, they had inherited the traditional
methods and techniques by oral tradition, but it is difficult to sustain them with thisoral way because it requires sufficient time and place. If I use the information
technology, it is useful to get knowledge anytime and anywhere.
I had designed an original BIM (Building Information Modeling) for Tao traditional
houses, and I examined the effectiveness of BIM for Tao people to construct theirtraditional houses through the miniature model experiments and the local survey of
their needs for BIM. It suggests that BIM is an useful tool for the cultural succession,
There are few cases of using BIM for traditional construction in the literature, but it
must be worth using BIM for building traditional houses.
This is because BIM has technologies that can contribute to (1) "extraction oftradition", (2) "efficiency of work", and (3) "creation of a developmental tradition". On
the process of using BIM to construct a house, we could identify the essence of traditionand find inherited tradition in a house that was rebuilt in real space. And we would be
able to create a space where we will sustainably rebuild and develop the regional
tradition. This research is only the initial research that presented a methodology tokeep Tao traditional houses inherited.
Keywords:
1.Orchid Island

2.Tao people 3.Traditional houses 4. Culture succession

5. BIM

Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance
Ran Tateyama

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