Drawing

Emoto Apartment Building: Presentation Drawings – Elevation

01/01/1986

Architectural Design, Presentation Drawing, Section

The front elevation of the building looking south.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x14"

Scale:

1:100

Content of

Project

Emoto Apartment Building 1986 to 1989

Tokyo, Japan

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1989

Client:

Mrs. Sugiko Emoto

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Miyoko Tsutsui

Contractor:

Kibe Construction Company, with subsidiary management by Center for Environmental Structure, Japan

Project cost:

$1,500,000

Project stages:

Use of full scale mock-ups Preliminary Design and Design Development drawings Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Subcontractors under C.E.S. control

An apartment building laid out to enhance the two streets of the Komagone neighborhood, not far from downtown Tokyo. The site is surrounded with large buildings, and a local neighborhood behind, with lower buildings and much narrower streets. It is ...

References

Photographs

Emoto Apartment Building: Photographs of drawings 01/02/1986

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Tokyo, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

One section and one elevation of the Emoto apartment building.