Photograph

Emoto Apartment Building: Photographs of the building

01/02/1988

Exterior View

Two similar photographs of the building exterior as it stands at the intersection of two streets.
One of them was exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, 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 ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...

Public Events

Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing Society´s Transitions" 21/05/2014 to 06/10/2014

The Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

LOCUS Foundation & Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine - Marie-Hélène Contal, Curator

The 40 architects already awarded the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture participated and exhibited their works. The exhibition was on international touring until 2016. Christopher Alexander’s participation included the extensive presentation of the Mexicali project in the “Saving the People’s Habitat” ...

Photographs

Emoto Apartment Building: Photographs of the building 01/02/1988

Project, Exterior View

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Four photographs of the building exterior as it stands at the intersection of two streets. One of them was exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”.