1998 Volume 63 Issue 508 Pages 91-98
The study's aim is to clarify the compositional characteristics of contemporary atrium buildings in Japan and their relationship to the building function. Materials are analyzed in two levels of composition; arrangement of space in circulation path and visual openness in the atrium. Comparing the whole composition of the buildings, three fundamental compositional rhetorics are structurized; emphasis and easing of contrast in circulation path and visual contrast by the circulation path. In conclusion arrangement of space in circulation path responds to the building function, which is thought to be one of the structures differentiating the building types as spatial composition.
