| Title |
A Study on the Form of Urban Apartments in the Aspect of the Relationship with a Street |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to find the characteristics of Urban Apartments in the aspect of the relationship between housing units and a street with analyzing the cases of Urban Apartments in Korea and the United States. In the United States, each housing unit is accessed directly from the street. There is no medium space which is shared by neighbors between housing units and street. This phenomenon did not happen only in the narrowly divided housing lots, but in the case of large block development. In sunny side Project, a case of large block development, even though they could make other relationships between housing units and the street because of its flexibility, the entrances to housing units are still along the street in order to supply direct access from the street. Even though they made a big central garden using the benefit of large block development, it was only a place to rest in. I think they did not need to make the garden as a medium space between housing units and the street. Rather they admitted the direct access from the street. While in Korea there is few cases that housing units are connected directly to the street. When they develop a block, there maybe a medium device which connects the street and the housing units and that is generally shared by the residents when they are coming in and out. This medium device is generally made of communal space, and which becomes a potential center which represents residents and meets streets formally. The large block separated from the street, one or two main entrances for the whole block, and communal space leading to the individual housing units are basic descriptions of the housing block development. That is to say, there must be something between housing units and street. Traditionally they have made a new village separating from the through traffic in order not to be disturbed and to conserve their privacy. The relationship between housing units and a street has been mainly the problem of culture. But seeing the urban life is based on the movement of the people and materials and so the social relationship of the people. We find the street is one of the most important place in a city for the movement to be happened. |