An Analysis on Formal Typology of Metropolitan Contemporary Housing of Tokyo (by Emphasis on 50 Residential Houses in the City of Tokyo)

Abstract: tokyo metropolis, with some exclusive features such as the experience of land readjustment,high level of technology, great economical centralization, and high density of information, presents atype of complicated, crowded, and instable architecture and city planning. such a status is a problem fordetermining the architectural typology and makes it practically hard for introducing the contemporaryarchitecture and the viewpoints concerning it. understanding the formal types in architecture, makes itpossible to gain theoretical and practical ideas and plans for city growth and promotion. the hypothesisof this article declares that among the space and visual instability and the wide variety of architecturalforms, there is a special tendency in residential architectural forms in tokyo that could be studied. toprove the hypothesis, the article’s research methodology starts with determining and understandingthe uniqueness of tokyo and influential factors in the city’s formal state. then, 50 samples of urbansingle-unit residential houses are chosen by random selection from the “archdaily” website. statisticalanalysis expresses the specific tendencies in formal types of the samples, as the hypothesis states. resultsdeclare the tendencies as: narrow and elongated forms, introverted with surrounded and internal yardsand balconies, some facades without decoration and mostly white or grey with low area of glass, whiteinternal space. understanding formal typologies and tendencies in tokyo’s contemporary architecture asa developed city has useful trainings for developing cities and countries like iran to have better decisionsin architectural and urban design in the future.