Plan for Chikusadai – Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings

01/01/1992

Drawing

One of the first plans of the neighborhood done with the families. It presented some issues from the point of view of sunlight since streets run mainly in parallel with the main street axis, exposing many residences to north orientation.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

Project

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

Hazama & Kusunoki areas, Nagoya, Japan

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Not built

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Miyoko Tsutsui, Hiroshi Nakano, Keiko Ono

Project stages:

Preliminary Design stage completed

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

Contents

Photographs

Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings One of the first site plans of the neighborhood done with the familes 01/01/1992

Drawing

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W
Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings One of the first site plans of the neighborhood done with the familes 01/01/1992

Drawing

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

References

Scientific Research

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

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Participation of Users

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

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Participation of Users

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 ...