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Plan for Chikusadai – Low-Rise High-Density Housing
1992High-density and low-rise housing for 800 families, in the Hazama and Kusunoki areas of Nagoya.
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Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Correspondence mainly deals with issues of density in housing and the distribution of news to the community. Dissatisfaction may occur with orientation and direction of lighting, given the density proposed. Proposals for changes are included. Multiple plans are being discussed and news is being sent to the Chikusadai community to brief them on the project plans.
23/03/1992
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Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Regarding the request about the plan & design of Hazama area. Letter updating the community on the answer presented to the mayor of Nagoya, informing him about the plan approval by the ministry which prohibits any changes from now on. Also, provides a list with various points of requests made. An attached page expresses peoples gratitude for the city's efforts to work with Christopher Alexander on the 'low-cost high-density' approach for the city's expansion
11/05/1992
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Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Re: My visit to Chikusadai from 14th to 15th. Updating on the discussions at a meeting with the community's representatives. Details include comparisons and the likes and dislikes of two plans: EW- plan No.1 and S-plan No.2. Pros and cons for each are discussed. Consensus of 70% agreement is details as well as the persons that seem to have the most influence. A request to send Shiratori drawing and models is made to help the community better visualize the ideas. Notes are made about a plan Mr. Namoto is presenting that is quite compelling to the community
16/03/1992
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Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Families participating in design meetings - Photographs
4 4) Study group walking in the neighborhood
01/01/1992
Family members in Hazama neighborhood meetings with C.E.S. to discuss the new neighborhood plans, and listen to other residents expressing their views.
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Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Phographs of project site existing conditions
3 3) Central street of the neighborhood with a swing set
01/01/1992
Three photos showing the the existing lanes, houses and gardens in the neighborhoods of Nagoya, being the basis of the C.E.S. proposal for the new housing.
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Plan for Chikusadai - Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Photographs of drawings
2 2) A slightly more developed version of the previous site plan
01/01/1992
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 ...
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References
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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アレグザンダーからの手紙み - んなでいっしょに / A Letter from Alexander - To Everyone in Chikudasai
01/09/1992
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座談会 Christopher Alexander and Rudolph Steiner, Timeless なものへ - 理性を超えた理性 - シュタイナー＆アレグザンダー / Symposium - Christopher Alexander and Rudolph Steiner, Timeless Things - Reason Beyond Reason - Steiner & Alexander
01/10/1992
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千種台住民とクリストファー・アレグザンダーの取組み - いまあるものをいつさらにゆたかなまちをはぐくむ / Chikudasai Residents and Christopher Alexander's Efforts - Cultivating a Richer Town by Cherishing What is Now
01/10/1992
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Christopher Alexander and the Chikusadai Housing Project on Japanese TV
18/06/1992
One-hour special devoted to Christopher Alexander’s work in Japan, with emphasis on the process and design of the Chikusadai area of Nagoya, in response to an invitation to him by the families of the area to develop a low-rise, high-density ...
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Community Housing and Planning work with Japanese Families
01/01/1992
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Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing Society´s Transitions"
21/05/2014 to
06/10/2014
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” ...