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finding:the-tokyo-forum-design-contains-a-main-auditorium-100-meters-long-50-meters-wide-and-20-meters-high-the-size-of-a-football-field-with-principal-structural-elements-being-massive-walls-rather-than-columnsThe Tokyo Forum design contains a main auditorium 100 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 20 meters high — the size of a football field — with principal structural elements being massive walls rather than columns.
Documents the extreme scale at which the aperiodic grid principle was applied
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- Asserts the universal necessity of simple exterior volumes regardless of building size
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- Aperiodic GridimplementsA non-regular geometric framework that brings coherent order to built form, emerging naturally from a living process.
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- Architectural example of harmony-seeking computation as iterative process where each design step strengthens latent structural features of the site.
- Optimal main street width determined to be 18 meters in Oakland simulation for Frankfurt projectfinding0.720Through real-place simulation in Oakland, California, for the Frankfurt Parkstadt project, a width of 18 meters felt right (20m too wide, 16m too narrow) for an east-west main street with 3-4 story buildings.
- Empirical finding from full-scale on-site testing: the correct proportions for intimacy were discovered through experiment, not calculation.
- Shiratori apartment has 24 linear meters of daylight-facing wall vs 6 m in typical high-risefinding0.715Daylight performance comparison based on apartment geometry.
- Specific structural finding: the four-column cluster system enabled both rigidity and floor-by-floor flexibility
- Functional benefit of the narrow building footprint.
- Rule for the most important room.
- Design process case study showing the wholeness criterion operates effectively at early rough mockup stages