Article

Entwerfen mit einer Pattern Language – Apartment Haus, Sapporo / Design with a Pattern Language – Apartment Building, Sapporo

01/03/1984

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

ARCH+ 73: Christopher Alexander: Entwerfen mit einer Pattern Language - Special Issue, No. 73, pp. 46-47

Publisher:

ARCH+ Verlag, Berlin, Germany

Language:

German

Contents

Correspondence

The editor of ARCH+ journal expressing the desire to have an issue dedicated to Christopher Alexander through presenting excerpts of the "Pattern Language" and the "Timeless Way of Building", as well as projects Alexander would choose from a proposed list. The purpose was to give Alexander a 'comprehensive introduction to the German architecture database' 15/07/1983

Article Publication, Permission Request

Sender:

Nikolaus Kuhnert, Amtsgericht Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden, Germany

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Language:

German

References

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 ...