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Emoto Apartment Building: Photographs of project model

01/02/1986

Model

Five different views of the Emoto apartment building cardboard colored study model; two views from the street side and two views from its interior courtyard. The model was a useful tool to study the impact of the volume and site on surrounding streets, and details of harmony with the streets.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

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 ...

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