NEXUX KASHI - HISTORY

• Nexus Kashi III, Housing Project, Fukuoka, Japan

Date built: 1997
Design: Martha Schwartz
Masterplan for multi-family housing community
• Six apartment buildings – designers:
Design: Christian De Portzamparc, Mark Mack, OMA/Rem Koolhaas,
Oscar Tusquets, Oshamu Ishiyamu, Steven Holl
• Location:Fukuoka, Japan
• Koolhaas's proposal noted for his interpretation of the significant
housing and their spatial management.
• The proposal consists of 24 units three levels each, organized in
two blocks that define access to an interior street, where a patio
private vertically into the interior of each housing space and light
entering in each of the same.
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• Nexus World (1991) is one of the experiments on multifamily
housing typology most interesting of recent times.
• This set included the participation of several famous Western
architects, led by renowned Japanese master Arata Isosaki,
including Steven Holl, Oscar Tusquets, Mark Mack, Christian de
Portzamparc, Osamu Ishiyama y especially Rem Koolhaas, who
was catapulted to international fame after her participation in
this project.
• Nexus World is located in Kashii, near Fukuoka, In the region of
Kyushu, southwestern Japan.
• The resort is located next to the Hakata Bay, and not very far
away, on an artificial island located in front, is the project Grin
Grin Park of Toyo Ito.
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