An Exploration into the Building Facade of Row-Housing Research on External Adding Elements of the Row House Facade-Unauthorized Structures and Grilles

• Main Authors: Pei-Jung Lin, 林佩蓉
• Other Authors: 方鳳玉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/j3y5qc

碩士 === 國立臺中科技大學 === 室內設計系碩士班 === 102 === The urban landscape of Taiwan is full of unauthorized constructions (which are made by corrugated steel sheet) and iron grille, and it is especially the case in the residential area. Despite the measures taken by the government, building violation examples such as expansion of the roof top and installation of iron grille onto the windows can still be seen all over the city and hard to be restrained from. As a consequence, the research is aiming at studying the cause of usage and people’s psychological factor for building these external added elements on the facade of the row housing. The research sample chosen is the neighborhood situated at the corner of Wan-an and Wan-mei street in Nan-tun District, Taichung City. According to past literature and the interview conducted with the residence, the main reasons behind the iron grille is to prevent accident and to avoid dropping objects, followed by increasing the space of indoor and safety. As for the cause of expanding the roof top, it is primarily about maximizing the net area between floors, then preventing leakage from the roof, and serving as the sunshade. Preliminary result shows that 37% of the residence have iron grille, steel rolling-up shutter, and expanded roof-top; 33% of the residence have iron grille and expanded roof-top. Over half of the residence not only install iron grill outside of the windows/balcony but also building unapproved constructions on the roof-top. From the figures above, it shows that the three most important psychological factors that influencing one’s building facades are: self-benefit, privacy, and safety. By looking into the elements and features of building facade, the goal of this research is to come up with a solid proposal for future planning and amendments of similar cases. Designs and 3D street scenery simulation had been used for building various styles of facade with different appearances in order to demonstrate the transformation in terms of the degree of interference.