| Title |
A Comparative Analysis of High-Rise Residential Planning with the Changes of the Times in Seoul |
| Keywords |
High-Rise Residential Planning ; High-Rise Building Development ; Architectural Planning Evaluation |
| Abstract |
The high-rise living style is one of the symbols of city-life pattern in our modern society. Living style in Seoul has been changed rapidly from low-rise to high-rise during the last several decades of industrialization with national issues for economy and other social changes with globalization and rapid westernization in life style. The Seoul has experienced serious housing problems with excessive rural-to-urban migration. It quantitatively resulted rapid housing demands in limited land resources and inevitably resulted multi-story residence development. This habitat called apartment has become typical living quarter of city life based on modern society. Turning into the 21st century, the high-rise residence has been lead with residential complex and height competitions in Seoul. This paper has focused on the comparative analysis of residential developments to obtain architectural design characteristics between low-rise and high-rise residence for developing the adequacy of living quality. It will be chance to understand developed design patterns of multi-story residential buildings with the changes of the times in Seoul. |