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

01/01/1992

Drawing

Photographs of the final proposal for the Hazama neighborhood site plan, made with the members of the community after discussion of the pattern language and the most important generic centers. A third drawing shows the . A comparison with the Shiratori plan would be useful, because a lower density was feasible in the Hazama area.

Photograph:

1) Neighborhood site plan
2) Neighborhood site plan, with the building volumes highlighted in black
3) Overall scheme of the underground neighborhood parking areas

Content of

Project 1 Items

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

Hazama & Kusunoki areas, Nagoya, Japan

Neighborhood Planning, Designed , Not built

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

References

Scientific Research 2 Items

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

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

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 ...

Photographs 3 Items

The Shiratori Plan - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1990

Project, Drawing

Two views of the site plan, which give an overview of the 500 apartments on 2.5 hectares of land. They portray the humane character of the place, with its narrow parallel lanes, gardens and small houses, on both sides of ...
The Shiratori Plan - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1990

Project, Drawing

Axonometric drawing showing the row houses, with their building volumes and articulated façades and the gardens tucked in between two adjacent rows of houses, with the streets on the other side.
Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings 01/01/1992

Project, Drawing

One of the first site 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 ...