Housing Complex Niigata III, Ch?bu Apartment Building, Japanese Residential Property, Architecture
Housing Complex Niigata III in Ch?bu
7 Oct 2020
Housing Complex Niigata III
Architects: TAKUYAHOSOKAI
Location: Niigata, Japan

Housing Complex Niigata III is an apartment building composed of 34 dwellings. There are a number of traditional Japanese houses still exist on neighbouring plots, and cultural facilities, shopping districts, universities, public offices and a park within 500m. In order to integrate an apartment block in a location where various programs interact with each other, we considered an aggregate composed of 34 types of dwelling that cater to differing lifestyles.

TAKUYAHOSOKAI tried to reconstruct the relationship between inside and outside spaces in collective housing in an urbanized context. Designed from inside to outside and also outside to inside, considering the separating role of the perimeter wall, the slab and structural frame, and the use of a terrace as a transition zone.
Designing from internal space:

– Place the outer envelope walls as a buffer zone on the outside of the terrace, and control the feeling of the distance between the inside and the outside.

– Arrange openings in the external envelope to prevent a direct line of sight from inside to outside and vice versa, this provides privacy and separation between dwellings and the city.

– The relationship between the columns of the structural frame and the slab (in ...