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-chapter 1: An investigation of the modern buildings and their place in the history of structural technology
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-chapter 2: The relation between high density community and
architectural space

-chapter 3: A study of the weathering, aging and maitenance of the
buildings on Gunkanjima

chapter 2: The relation between high density community and architectural space.

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"The principle factor which made it possible to juxtapose, adapt and extend building on Gunkanjima in a very free and spontaneous way was that the entire island was in the private possession of a single company."

Natural conditions and community: 4. Water supply problems and the sense of community.

Water is essential not only for drinking but for a range of other domestic purposes. Especially because Gunkanjima was a mining community the inhabitants made pathetically desperate efforts to obtain water for bathing, washing clothes and maintaining the toilets etc. Isolated from the outside world, accustomed to considering the needs of others and sharing their meager water ration, the inhabitants of Gunkanjima developed a strong sense of comradeship, as one would expect. The completion of the submarine water supply pipe in Showa 32 (1957) changed the situation. (Fig. 2-13.14, Ph. 2-16.17)