Shiratori apartments get more than twice as much sunlight as typical high-rise apartments.

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• In conventional high-rise housing at 200/ha, not one family has their own garden; in Shiratori every family does.claim0.794
  Comparative claim about equitable access to private outdoor space.
• The present government plan for the Shiratori area is an environment with 14-story apartments, a huge shopping center and a huge parking area. It is typical of today's trend. What do you think of it?question0.786
  Initial question posed to residents in the survey.
• The cost of construction of the Shiratori plan is the same or lower than costs of present-day high-rise housing.claim0.780
  Economic feasibility claim countering common assumptions.
• Do you want an apartment which is deep with sunlight at one end and no light at the other, or do you want an apartment in which there is good light for all the rooms?question0.749
  Survey Question 9.
• Summer in Japan is hot and sticky; cross ventilation is easily achieved with shallow 6 m deep apartments.claim0.749
  Functional benefit of the narrow building footprint.
• Five-story apartment building in Tokyo complements site wholeness through 50 structure-preserving steps that accentuate Y-configuration, positive space, levels of scale, and sunny southern orientation.finding0.735
  Architectural example of harmony-seeking computation as iterative process where each design step strengthens latent structural features of the site.
• The intimate scale of the Shiratori plan is consistent with the deep feeling of Japanese people for small, precious things.claim0.699
  Cultural sensitivity claim.
• Nagoya survey: families overwhelmingly preferred low-rise housing and considered it to have more lifefinding0.688
  Survey result from 100 families in Japan, showing perceived greater life in low-rise, high-density housing vs high-rise.