This article proposes a method of exploring an actual field to find or invent the spatial schema through which we are understanding or constructing the relationships between us and our environment. The method employs Photo Diary as a core recording medium. Photo Diary is composed of a photograph, or a set of photographs, sometimes, and a set of verbal descriptions of the fact seen in the picture, the experience of the researcher taking the picture at the field, and the interpretation of the fact, the experience, and the something between them.
This article focuses on the findings related to the method that we are becoming aware of through a series of on-going inquiries into the spatial schema concealed behind the spatial organizations of traditional houses in Ryukyu region.