Characteristic of Preference for the View From Buildings Fronting a River by the Subject's Experiment

The authors carried out the experiment of the subject's evaluation for the views from buildings fronting a nver. The nine sets of photograph were presented to the subjects; fifty-nine students belonging to the architecture course of Hiroshima University. Each set of photograph was composed with five pictures, which were taken from -15 degrees to 60 degrees of an angle of depression in the direction of a river at each selected story of a building in Hiroshima City. The subjects were asked to indicate the desirable view in a picture with the 35 mm frame of camera, and to select the prefered story for living. From these results, the authors clarified the angle of depression for the preference of the views, the remarked elements of the picture, etc. The subjects' evaluations for the image of the views from the prefered story were analyzed by using the Semantic Differential Method. On the basis of the Factor Analysis, the authors clarified the relationships between the meanings of the four factors selected and the characteristics of preference of the views mentioned above.