1994 Volume 59 Issue 465 Pages 85-93
In this paper, the architectural composition of Japanese contemporary houses is typologicaly analyzed in terms of articulation and connection of space, defined as a materially framed interior volume : "room". Initially, the house is articulated into a set of rooms, and the synthesis of rooms is abstracted on two different levels : on the differentiation of the main biggest room, and on the connection between interior rooms, and also between interior and exterior. Secondly, typological compositions of the house are defined by combination of those syntheses, and a series of rhetorics are found which differentiate between them. Finally, the architectural composition of the house is structured into two poles of typological tendencies -acquisition of spatial continuity by the main room, and chain-like connection of articulated rooms.
