Photograph

Sapporo Apartment Building: Photographs of project model

01/01/1982

Model

Three images of the balsa wood presentation model of the apartment building.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

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 ...

Contents

Photographs

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.