PASSIVETOWN BLOCK NO.5

HK ARCHITEKTEN／HERMANN KAUFMANN＋PARTNER ZT　TAKENAKA CORPORATION　PLACEMEDIA（LANDSCAPE）

Outline: The Passive Town project, which began in 2011, has reached a milestone with the completion of Block 5, following the earlier completion of Blocks 1 through 4. The design is a collaboration between Hermann Kaufmann, who is based in Austria and has designed numerous mid- to high-rise wooden buildings, and Takenaka Corporation. Block 5 consists of three 6- to 7-story residential buildings (from right to left in the photo: Buildings M, N, and O), a multi-story parking garage, and a community center (Stube), with each building connected by a corridor. By constructing these buildings at a medium-to-high-rise scale—taller than the existing Blocks 1 through 4 (which are up to four stories)—the project has created extensive green spaces at ground level, which are open to the local community as a park.

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