COMPOSITION OF APPROACH SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE : A study on composition of exterior space (2)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to clarify the paradigmatic characteristics of the composition of exterior space in Japanese contem- porary architecture. Those are determined by the relation between exterior composition of building and approach space. Exterior composition of building is formed by assemblage of hierarchical manipulation on volumetric arrangements, which are depth, width and vertical. Approach space is combination of the space which is left by arranged building on a site and the position of entrance. So 11 types of composition are found. Comparing the every type, three fundamental rhetorics are clarified; emphasis of facade, extension of public space and transformation within approach space.