Many of the condominium apartments near to rebuilding stage can be rebuilt only under the existed floor area, because they were built exceeding current FAR regulation. They are called “existing non-conformed condominiums.” In the case of Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster, “Reconstruction from Earthquake Disaster-type” of “Design with Comprehensive Consideration System” was temporarily and exceptionally introduced, to encourage their reconstruction.
This paper is an interim report on the evaluation research of this system. Using index data of the buildings provided by the local authorities, characteristics of the rebuilding under this system, are studied, and we reached to the following results. 1) Most of the condominiums were rebuilt near to the previous floor area. 2) The significance of the large coefficient of extra FAR is in relieving the difficulties to create Open Space for Public, within the comparatively small and complicated building sites, to secure extra floor area. 3) The forms of the buildings have change to tall and slender ones.
