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There are a lot of floating villages around the Tonle Sap lake. They depends on natural environments around the lake because the situations are separated from the land. Unique living spaces which are different from the ones on the land can be seen on the water. Our study pays its attention to the living spaces on the water in Anphlong Ta O village, the Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia. It has clarified constitution principle of the house and settlement space of the floating village.

house no.1

This drawing shows three floating houses; house of grandmother on the left, houses of her daughter at the center and on the right. The entrances are situated above and the backyards are drawn below. A nuclear family lives in each house, and there are many cases that some families with the blood relationship live with making a small group.

house no.2

This house is divided into 3 rooms, living room on the front, bedroom at the center and kitchen at the back. The front entrance is situated in the central part. A passage is situated on the center from the entrance to the back, and rooms are situated on both sides of the passage. The symmetric constitution is the feature of houses in Anphlong Ta O .

house no.3

The living room at the front is open to the outside. To introduce lights and winds inside, inhabitants open the backside door in the day time. A porch is arranged forward and backward of the house. A porch is set up about 250mm lower than the main floor level, and forms the place where inhabitants use lake water such as bathe and wash.

house no.4

Various equipments such as pig cage, henhouse, field, crocodile cage, fish preserve are arranged around a house. Crocodile cage is situated at the left side and front side of the house, and a kitchen is floating at the right side, and a henhouse is also floating at the front side of a kitchen.

The people who live on the water

カンボジアのトンレサップ湖周辺には、主に漁業を生業とし、水上に住居を浮かべて暮らす人々がいます。

Anphlong Ta O

トンレサップ湖北端のサンカェ川沿いに立地するアンロン・タウー村は、筏住居で構成された水上集落です。筏住居は風や波で流されないように浸水林に寄り沿いながら立地しています。また親戚同士、数件の住居と隣接し合うように居住し、住居は群れをなしながら点在しています。

Space formation of the raft house

筏住居は陸から切り離された特異な環境にあるため、生活の多くを自然環境に依拠しており、そこでは水上に住まうための独自の生活空間が作り出されています。

1.筏住居の空間構成

筏住居の空間構成は、一層目に居間、二層目に寝室、三層目に台所といった明確な3層構成をとります。居間から台所にかけ、中央には光、風を取り入れるための通り抜けた空間を作ります。居間、台所は開口部が設けられ、特に家族が集う居間の開口部は大きく設けられ、外部に開いた空間が特徴です。周囲にはベランダが張り出し、休憩や団欒、玄関、通路としての役割を果たしています。

2.付属建物


住居周辺には様々な建物が付属し、豚小屋、鶏小屋、畑など、本来陸地で見られるものも水上で見ることができます。またほとんどの住居ではワニ、魚の養殖が盛んに行われています。

3.付属建物（一時的な補完空間）


一時的に建物が増設されるケースがあります。結婚式や葬式、また祭りなどを行う際にスペースを補うために村にあるステージが補完されます。写真は葬式前と葬式中の様子。