Sapporo Apartment Building: Sketches – Early Design Study Type Drawings

01/01/1981

Architectural Design, Sketches

97 pages of various studies of volumes, floor plans, sections and elevations of the ten story building. Dealing with functional and design issues of a fire stair and elevator location in relation to other uses, with natural light access, with lighting wells, with the integration to the existing hospital, while maintaining good floor patterns, and with exterior galleries, balconies and side wells, maintaining good volumetric proportions after all. Mostly free-hand sketches, except a set of single hardline drawings floor plans and one section.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

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Project

Sapporo Apartment Building 1981 to 1982

Minami-7-joh, Nish-2-chome, Chuo-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mrs. Keiko Inoue and family

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Gary Black

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $2,000,000

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Ten-story apartment building, with forty-five one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, with shops and offices on the first three floors. The building, of concrete-encased steel, was to be built over an existing clinic. The structural frame consists of twenty enormous columns ran all ...

References

Scientific Research

Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.