ABSTRACT
The thermal tactility shared among the members of the household is one of the most of characteristic aspects of the Japanese vernacular architecture, as an author describes: One have to have spent some cold winter evenings snuggled together around the hibachi. The architects critical of the traditional Japanese configuration were quite swift in steering its transformation to suit the ideology of individualism with an emphasis on privacy, as well as to ensure efficiency of circulation and functional clarity. The traditional Japanese house criticizes for three reasons: noise, the lack of clarity in the functional definition of the rooms and interruption of privacy. The private house as one knows it today grew in Europe and colonial New England during the seventeenth century. Tetsuro Watsuji's discusses of barrier-free interiority in contrast with the outside acquires further significance on account of the Japanese experience of modernity.
