Abstract
The study's aim is to clarify the paradigmatic characteristics of the exterior composition of multistory buildings in the urban context. Materials are analyzed in three levels of exterior composition; expression of building surface, expression of circulation core, and expression of geometry. Comparing the whole composition of the buildings, four independent rhetorics are structurized; transparency of the interior compositional system, frontality and solidity by the condition of the site, geometry of the surface and the whole and independency of the part and the whole, which show the structures differentiating the exterior composition of the multistory buildings according to the inner conditions such as accumulation of slabs and circulation core.
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