Tatami Configuration in Apartment Building

Title

Tatami Configuration in Apartment Building
Post-Disaster: Japan's Response to the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

Subject

natural disasters; disaster planning; apartment houses; tatamis

Description

Traditional tatami mats can be found in all of the new permanent and temporary housing structures
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
The purpose of this research trip to Japan is to identify the qualities of successful post-disaster city planning and architecture, which can potentially be applied towards immediate and impervious strategies on a global level. Since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan has undergone massive improvements, due to advancements in construction technology, community-centered and forward-thinking designs as well as a general faith in rebuilding and recovery. Albeit, some of the tsunami-prevention strategies have stirred international controversy, the Japanese are the undoubted frontrunners in ensuring resiliency in saving human lives. Hopefully this information will shed light on some of the ways we as designers can rethink disaster-risk management and recovery.

Creator

Nuguid, Vail

Date

2012

Rights

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Vail Nuguid

Type

Architecture and City Planning

Identifier

T0499

Coverage

Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan

Files

14297613-IMG_2887.jpg

Citation

Nuguid, Vail, “Tatami Configuration in Apartment Building,” Spitzer School of Architecture, accessed March 28, 2024, http://digitalscholarship.ccny.cuny.edu/architecture/items/show/1197.

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