| Title |
Morphological Transformation of Building Blocks of Apartment Complexes in Busan |
| Authors |
Lee, Sangjin ; Park, SoHyun |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2019.35.8.3 |
| Keywords |
Morphological Transformation of Apartment; Type of Residential Tower; Typology; Morphology; Apartment Complex |
| Abstract |
The research is to track the morphological transformation of residential towers of apartment complexes in Busan. Though apartment is one of
the most important components in Korean society, it has not drawn enough attention from academia as well as the public, especially
regarding its shape. In result, its morphological change has barely been recognized. Instead, negative, but superficial, evaluation has become
dominant tendency to deal with the shape of apartment tower. There are numerous ‘partial’ evidences to inform the morphological change of
apartment plan type, and understanding the change is critical since morphological resultant reflects culture, politics, economy of a society. The
research has been done on the 261 apartment complexes built through 2016 in Busan. The analysis shows that I? type, to represent ‘typical
boring architectural shape’ of Korean apartments, has been dominant until the year 2000. However, its portion has become drastically
decreased since the mid-2000. Composite plan type, the geometrical precedents of which had never been existent, emerged in the mid-2000,
and this phenomenon may symbolize the change of morphology of apartment. When tower plan types are grouped together according to
geometrical shape, three types, I-type, L-type and Y-type, take the most of residential towers, explaining 97% of the total. As expected,
I-type is the most dominant, but its influence has decreased as time passes. Y-type might become one of the most important type in the
period V. L-type has become the leading type in the Period VI to exceed I-type by 12 percent. |