Sapporo Apartment Building

1981 to 1982
Minami-7-joh, Nish-2-chome, Chu­o-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Residential, Designed , Not built
Ten-story apartment building, with forty-five one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, with shops and offices on the first three floors. The building, of concrete-encased steel, was to be built over an existing clinic. The structural frame consists of twenty enormous columns ran all the way through the building from top to bottom. At the bottom they are solid and massive, visible as legs. Higher up, they are pierced; they are so large that they contain arches, and each one splits into four smaller columns, and these four columns then become the crossings where the circulation and passages of the upper floors meet. This main structure reflects the overall spatial organization of the interior, and combined with a terracing of the buiding volume, results in a unique spatial configuration in each floor. .
Client:
Mrs. Keiko Inoue and family
C.E.S. staff:
Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Gary Black
Project cost:
Expected construction cost: $2,000,000
Project stages:
Preliminary Design
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