Abstract
The study's aim is to clarify the paradigmatic characteristics of the exterior composition of contemporary Japanese public institution and their relationship to the building types. First defined are compositional units as mass and non-mass, and syntagmatic operations in their combination. Massive units are analyzed in two levels of exterior composition, constructive articulation and formal articulation. Secondly comparing the whole composition of the buildings, three independent rhetorics are structurized ; contrast in the articulation of elements in the main mass, syntagmatic operations in the main mass and syntagm by the exterior form. In conclusion some compositional types responds to the main function of the public institution, which is thought to be one of the structures differentiating the building types as exterior composition.
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