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claim:the-cost-of-construction-of-the-shiratori-plan-is-the-same-or-lower-than-costs-of-present-day-high-rise-housingThe cost of construction of the Shiratori plan is the same or lower than costs of present-day high-rise housing.
Economic feasibility claim countering common assumptions.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Findings (1)
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- Sample 3-story apartment cost in Oregon: $40,000 per unit (1993), with no two apartments identicalsupportsEvidence that low-rise custom housing can be cost-competitive.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Initial question posed to residents in the survey.
- Comparative claim about equitable access to private outdoor space.
- Cultural sensitivity claim.
- Shiratori apartments get more than twice as much sunlight as typical high-rise apartments.claim0.780Performance claim based on square-meter hour measurements.
- 100% of floor area in Shiratori apartment within 3 m of a window vs ~25% in typical high-risefinding0.779Daylight coverage comparison.
- Shiratori apartment has 24 linear meters of daylight-facing wall vs 6 m in typical high-risefinding0.772Daylight performance comparison based on apartment geometry.
- Demonstrates strong community support and economic feasibility of the living process approach.
- Nagoya survey: families overwhelmingly preferred low-rise housing and considered it to have more lifefinding0.738Survey result from 100 families in Japan, showing perceived greater life in low-rise, high-density housing vs high-rise.