| Title |
A Comparative Study on the Openness according to Building Block Types in Apartment Housing |
| Authors |
Lee Suk-Moon ; Kim Won-Pil ; Herm Zeong-Do |
| Keywords |
Openness ; Building Types ; Allocation Types of Apartment Building Block ; Facade-area Ratio ; Computer Simulation |
| Abstract |
Apartment, the most common housing type in Korea nowadays is causing various problems such as excessive concentration of population, traffic jam, monotonous view, and 'heat-island' phenomenon in specific areas. This study is focussing on the allocation technique of apartment buildings which eventually increases the quality of surrounding environments. It deals with the issues regarding problems caused by highly dense population including the openness within housing complexes. The study explores characteristics of openness by building blocks and allocation types of buildings that forms the residential complex in order to seek appropriate methods for the improvement of openness without changing the level of density when creating the site plan. For this purpose, selected housing complexes were classified as 116 types of building blocks and simplified model which does not consider open space created from super-structure details, pillars of lower grounds and balcony types were simulated to examine facade-area ratio. The extensive research found that appropriate mix of building blocks in site planning, on the condition of the same density and design, could improve openness without modifying distances among blocks and building stories. Furthermore, the study proposed that considerate mix of building blocks from the stand point of openness is the viable plan alternatives without adjusting density level. |