The Shiratori Plan – Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings

The Shiratori Plan in Nagoya asked for an integrated neighborhood for 500 families, at a density of 80 families per acre, on a 6.24 acres site, with an average area of ​​72 square meters per unit and total area of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two 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 overall scheme of the ...

Two photographs of elevations; the first along the street and the second facing the gardens where the site is sloping.