Kazuyo Sajima in GIF u

Located in Gifu, there is a building that constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima's studies a l metropolitan housing. This research was based on the conclusion that not all subsidized housing has to ser the same. Starting from a generic public housing program, Sejima's housing block in Gifu departs from conventions and occupies the conceptual and physical space created between opposition design concerns: in a strictly modulated structure it faces a random arrangement of different spaces, between the length of the building and the reduction of its construction depth, between the living space and the landscape that surrounds it, between the individual and the family unit