A study on transition of reconstruction and function of Yamakataya department store in Kagoshima

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report the survey of the department store in a local city implementing extension and reconstruction for increasing in floor area and improvement in function. Some results show as follows : (1)There is much room to extend upward, because the building was built as low-layer-building. So extensions were done not only to horizontal direction but also vertical direction. (2)While existing buildings were used as the department-store, changes of usage made differences of floor-height and floor-level in the building. (3)Although air-conditioning-systems were changed in 1970-1990s to keep up with the revisions of law, increasing in floor area and improvement of equipments are consisted by some means or other.