2004 Volume 69 Issue 584 Pages 107-113
It is an inevitable process for a building to be superannuated, or to carry out a functional fall, to finish the construction life, and to result in demolition. Life is shortened or is extended by the sudden accident with a building, or the plan by the persons concerned, or the judgment and a social request, or the trend, etc. Even if the functional fall of a building is not remarkable, it may result in change of built for new equipment or the growing floor area demand, and the construction life is concerned closely with the trend of the age. When thinking and seeing, the atomic bombing of a building was a serious incident which has remarkable influence on the construction life and function. Here, in this paper, it considers as how to discuss about the construction life and its continuation form of a historical building by taking up world's first atom-bombed city Hiroshima, and considering the actual condition and the. trend of a contamination building through many reference and investigation.
