ARCH1390 2012 Anders Huxtable: Assignment 1 Blog Submission

The Gifu Apartments by SANAA are a great example to demonstrate that although apartment buildings can often come off as an eyesore within the local environment through a strategic and unconventional design process these building can be highly regarded. They were able to come up with a new concept of having standard sized modules for different sects of the apartment and then arranging them in various ways to suit the needs of various families and people. With a focus of reducing the impact of such a large scale building on the local environment they were also able to come up with a unique building that incorporates a light controlled design. The concept of the standard floor plans with the grid layout design as well as the low impact nature of the building are explored below.

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