Photograph

Emoto Apartment Building: Photographs of building details

01/02/1988

Focus on Details

Three photographs of some particular places in the building.

Photograph:

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Tokyo, Japan

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project 1 Items

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 ...