Design Concept and Principles

The Sejima Wing housing units has been designed with a relatively shallow depth. With such a depth, the ‘room’ becomes the only basic building block.

These blocks are combined in a variety of ways to produce a multitude of apartment plans and sections, thus generating complex elevations.

Each unit, consisting a few basic blocks, has provided with a courtyard-like terrace. The terraces create holes in the building through which the far side of the building can be glimpsed, thus reducing the visual impression of massiveness.