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.

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• Five-story Tokyo apartment building ground plans (left student plan vs. right built plan)finding0.809
• 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?question0.779
  Initial question posed to residents in the survey.
• The Sapporo building design used twenty enormous column clusters running through all ten floors, each cluster splitting into four smaller columns at upper floors with archways passing through the openings.finding0.775
  Specific structural finding: the four-column cluster system enabled both rigidity and floor-by-floor flexibility
• A successful large building will always show subtle syncopation of regularity combined with gentle accommodation to the land, with a continuous range of scales down to the most intimate details.claim0.775
  Summary of the geometric invariants that result from living process in large buildings.
• Summer in Japan is hot and sticky; cross ventilation is easily achieved with shallow 6 m deep apartments.claim0.773
  Functional benefit of the narrow building footprint.
• Shiratori apartment has 24 linear meters of daylight-facing wall vs 6 m in typical high-risefinding0.762
  Daylight performance comparison based on apartment geometry.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.759
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.claim0.758