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Sapporo Apartment Building: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1982

Drawing

Three photographs of the building structural grid, as it differentiates among floors, adjusting to the geometry of architecture, and to the need to construct over an existing clinic. In adition, one cross section depicting the continuity of the load bearing structure, one sketch axonometric illustrating the transfer of vertical loads, and another one with a detail of steel fabrication in one of the four-column clusters.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Sapporo Apartment Building: Structural order in the concrete-encased steel load bearing structure 1982

Construction System, Steel Structure

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Gary Black

This innovative structural scheme arose from the careful unfolding of the design with respect to user requirements, the impact of surrounding buildings, coupled with the fact that there was an untouchable small clinic on the site which had to be ...

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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.

Projects

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 ...

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