Clusters in the Air
Arata Isozaki a metabolist architect deigned Clusters in the Air in 1960-62 for Tokyo. He uses the same joint core system as he did for the City in the Air. The concept of the clusters was to develop a new way to structure housing around Tokyo. The Cluster are suppose to represent leaves from trees which are the housing units and the core represents the trunk of the tree.
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Books:
preface by Richard Koshalek; essay by David B. Stewart and Hajime Yatsuka, Arata Isozaki: Architecture 1960-1990, [Rizzoli International Publication, Inc., 1191
