Council estate project 　　　　2025.02.10

Concept

Rebuild project of council estate built in 1980s. Existing are for 12 families of 6 buildings with two-story duplex type apartments. It was the transition stage for the housing supply from quantity to quality at that time, and these buildings are distinct like one-unit home looking.

The rebuild plan has a concept to “protect safety and security of life” along with aging of the buildings and age demand, and the plan is with wheelchair-accessible, room layout for taking nursing-care service, energy saving and improving crime prevention.

The history of the council estate was started in the middle of 20s of Showa period. They were built with the goal of supplying housing for postwar rebuilding and they were heartthrob of modern life style. It started as prototype but was established layout plan and room layout according to Japanese economic growth and became mass production type in these days.

We suggested prosperous life with simple architectural device to accomplish the goal of SDGs with no one gets behind and town policy with cutting waste in accordance with accumulated regulations and sorting out along with the purpose.