NEXUS WORLD HOUSING, JAPAN, FUKUOKA, 1991

Design for a series of apartments

This project consists of 244 individual houses in the Kashi District of Fukuoka, each three stories high, packed together to form two blocks. Each house is penetrated by a private vertical courtyard that introduces light and space into the center. A closed cyclopic wall wraps around the exterior of the blocks so that they can eventually serve as socles for Isozaki's future towers.
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FACT SHEET

Project:
Design for a series of apartments

Client:
Fukuoka Jisho Co.Ltd.

Year:
1991

Status:
Built

Type:
Residential

Location:
Kashi District, Fukuoka, Japan

Site:
Masterplan by Arata Isozaki: 2 plots of 1,791m2 and 1,706m2 in front of two future apartment towers by Isozaki

Program:
244 apartments, 4 shops, parking

Materials:
Steel reinforced black concrete wall in textured casting, zinc alloy roof, aluminium windows with various kinds of glass

Budget:
12,000,000 Euro

COLLABORATORS

Interior Consultants:
Kyoko Ohashi, Petra Blaisse

General Contractor and Structural Consultants:
Maeda Corp

CREDITS

Partner:
Rem Koolhaas

Project Architect/Manager:
Fuminori Hoshino

Team:
Ron Steiner, Maartje Lammers, Marc Peeters, Xaveer de Geyter, Ramon Klein, Leo van Immerzeel, Jaap van Heest, Shin-ichi Kanefuji

Local Architect:
Yoshikazu Kawamura

AWARDS

1992 The Architectural Institute of Japan, Best Building in Japan 1991