The architectural design will guide more travelers and pedestrians into the center of the block differently and interestingly, giving the block a chance to revive the previously hidden and poorly run shops and allow travelers to experience residents' lifestyles more deeply. There is a mechanism of gates to protect the privacy and quality of life of residents in the area. These gates will limit the places that passengers can reach in specific periods. This project will be a negotiated boundary between residents and tourists, allowing residents and tourists to have different territories at different periods.

Architectures were used as a crucial tool to change Taiwanese self-identity during the Japanese rule of Taiwan because architecture is closely related to people's lives. Although Japan is not the most prolonged colonial regime in Taiwan's history, there are still many traces of Japan left in life in Taiwan nowadays. Because the Japanese set the colonial blueprint more comprehensively on the entire Taiwan. Therefore, for different purposes, the types of buildings are diverse, and the scale of construction covers everything from urban planning to building material specifications. In this thesis, I will mainly study Japanese-style houses in Taiwan, which have accelerated the change of Taiwanese self-identity to a certain extent.