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Sapporo Building

Unbuilt design for a ten-story concrete-encased steel building in downtown Sapporo, Japan (1984); used twenty enormous column clusters with four-column subdivisions; exemplifies rigid geometry that enables floor-by-floor flexibility

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Thinkers (3)

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  • Christopher Alexander
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  • Gary Black
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    Engineer who collaborated on the structural design of the Mary Rose Museum trusses and provided intense engineering input.
  • James Adey
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    Structural engineer for the Sapporo building steel fabrication details

Concepts (1)

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  • Brutal Geometry
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    The almost alien, rigid, massively crystalline geometry imposed on a building design at a certain stage — coming from the internal needs of structural coherence, not from surroundings; frightening yet necessary for real order