The Essential Approach To High-Rise Vertical Outer Space

The authoritativeness of Yoshinobu Ashihara's ( ) theory on OUTER SPACE has been generally acknowledged in the field of Architecture, since the author advanced the concept and design principles in Outer Space Design, which was published in 1975. By reason that Ashihara's OUTER SPACE is mainly in view of the" room without a roof , we can treat his OUTER SPACE as a somewhat kind of " single story architecture" . However, there are so many high-rises placed closely side by side in modern cities , the outer spaces surrounded by high blocks have become " multiple-story-spaces " themselves as well. Thus we can hardly observe those spaces only from horizontal dimensions any more.Based on the result of Ashihara's research, this dissertation further puts forward a new concept: VERTICAL OUTER SPACE in order to research this kind of spaces focusing on their distinctions and tries to offer some design methods and skills useful for design practice.Chapter 1 raises the significant concept, namely the VERTICAL OUTER SPACE, at first . Explains the reasons of the forming of vertical outer space then, at the same time, this article points out that the research about VERTICAL OUTER SPACE has almost rested in untouched state in the theoretical field as yet. Therefore the author expects to propose some essential theories and a few useful suggestions for design practice of high-rise buildings and design practice of urban environment.Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 state tow important concepts: Urban Space and High-Rise; summarize the kernel theories of Ashihara's OUTER SPACE ; and, in a simple way, introduce Xin Huaquan's ( ) statement of that Form Possesses Spaces.Chapter 4 illustrates the author's important points of view about the research of VERTICAL OUTER SPACE. It analyses the relationship between urban spaces and high-rises, enumerates the construction elements of VERTICAL OUTER SPACE, and makes a classification of vertical outer spaces.In chapter 5, the author mainly discusses the principles, techniques and skills in design practice concerning the horizontal, the vertical characteristics and Morpho-Psycology This dissertation pays special attention to Biological Architecture at the end of this chapter.The sixth chapter is to approach the implementation of vertical outer spacedesigns that relates to government organizations, legal system establishment and public participation.At last, this dissertation makes conclusions and gives a prospect of future development of the vertical outer space construction.