Five Story Apartment Building: Photographs of mock-ups

01/02/1987

Mock-up

Hansjoachim Neis working on a full-scale mock-up of a large vertical section of the exterior wall of the building, including the first three floors of the building. He used heavy paper, hung and fastened on the building wall, and worked in real scale on detailing size and shape of windows, as well as texture and color of materials.

Photographer:

Miyoko Takeda, Tokyo, Japan

Source:

Digital

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 ...

References

Scientific Research