This article tries to presents the mechanism, which relates the perception and recognition of things and their representation for designing, underling the conflicts between the style of a vernacular architecture and its reformed styles, by focusing on the spatial schema that are embodied by the structure of those architecture. A small village in an island in Okinawa prefecture is the field of investigation. Photo Diary method, observation of vernacular houses and the life in those houses, and informal conversation are the core pillars of our investigation.