Architectural Composition of Exterior Elements in Collective Housing Collective form in contemporary Japanese housing (3)

摘要

In this report we aim to clarify collective form of housing units expressed by exterior building elements. It is one of the important subjects which decides the compositional characteristics of collective housing, that is how to make the spatial units and how to combine them. First, we classified the building elements which compose the external form, and we found diachronic tendency of elements in Examples. Secondly, we defined the compositional units in external form through analyzing the relationships between the building Elements and housing units.