Sapporo Apartment Building: Project design partial notes

01/01/1981

Design Matters, Notes

Listing of sixteen general, initial points on various design aspects, promoting the idea of considerable differentiation from floor to floor, to obtain richness in the building.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Project

Sapporo Apartment Building 1981 to 1982

Minami-7-joh, Nish-2-chome, Chuo-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Residential, Designed , Not built

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

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 ...