Plan for Chikusadai – Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Families participating in design meetings – Photographs

01/01/1992

Design Process

Family members in Hazama neighborhood meetings with C.E.S. to discuss the new neighborhood plans, and listen to other residents expressing their views.

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Project 1 Items

Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing 1992

Hazama & Kusunoki areas, Nagoya, Japan

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Not built

High-density and low-rise housing for 800 families, in the Hazama and Kusunoki areas of Nagoya.

References

Scientific Research 2 Items

The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested

In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...