Tokyo, Japan 1987
designed and built by Christopher Alexander
with Hajo Neis, Ingrid King, Miyoko Tsutsui using techniques described in A Pattern Language
and The Timeless Way of Building
An apartment building generated by sequential application of fifty steps. The building helps to keep the neighborhood alive because the process used for designing and building were living ones.Emoto building, ground floor plan. The plan shows the adaptation of rooms to the unusual configuration caused by the fork and two bent streets. South is upper left.A model of the building made during design, allowed us to study the impact of the volume and site on surrounding streets, and details of its harmony with the streets.Winter, 1988. An exterior, street-level view of one apartment in the Emoto building. The simple, nearly stark, but comfortable, solid quality of the building comes from the unfolding—especially from the inclusion of NOTHING extra BEYOND the decisions of unfolding.The completed Emoto apartment buildingA drawing of the facade of the Emoto apartment building
