'69 '73

代官山
’05
ヒルサイド
HILLSIDE
テラス
TERRACE

'92
'74 '94
BRIEF
ASAKURA CLIENT
FUMIHIKO MAKI
 Osaka Expo'70 This event, which reported a record
of more than sixty million visitors in
six months, testified the significant
Major paradigm: Megastructure influence of megastructure in
architecture and urban design
first appeared in an essay written by through the 1960s.
Fumihiko Maki, one of the founding
Metabolists, on the“collective forms.”

Affected by the global energy

crisis of 1973 and resultant
economic downturn, megastructure’s
popularity among architects started

Metabolism was to wane, and criticisms became

dominant.
launched during the 1960 World
Design Conference in Tokyo.

Three
Metabolist
Paradigms concepts
Megastructure con
cep
Group Form ts
Ruins
concepts

Metabolism, together with its Western counterparts like

Archigram, Cedric Price, and Situationist International, Kiyonori Kikutake
is regarded by historians as the first generation that Tower-Shaped City
approached architecture and urbanism as media

Fumihiko Maki
The Golgi
Structure

Arata Isozaki
Joint Core System

Arata Isozaki Kenzo Tange

Ruins Pilotis and Core System
 Based on the relationship between part and whole as often seen in the formation
of vernacular settlements like Italian hilltop towns, North African villages, and
Japanese linear villages.
" O r d e r
should arise
from grouping
i n d i v i d u a l
e l e m e n t s
together!" Individual units are generative
elements defined by a
prototype, which determines
the general character of the
ensemble.

GROUP
Maki challenged

FORM megastructure with

a concept called
Allows the ensemble to
grow and renew itself
without affecting its
Group Form, general character, as
It's me again...
representing the the system maintains a
second Metabolist dynamic equilibrium.
paradigm of the city.
槇 文彦 The emphasis of planning
shifts from a physical
Fumihiko Maki structure to a perceptual
"Create a flexible urban order underlying the
system more responsive to evolution of the city.
the fluctuating conditions
of contemporary society."

"At first, I didn't think about that. At the time

of the 3rd period (Building D / E, completed in
1977), it became a base for cultural activities,
not just houses, restaurants, and shops. I
talked with Kengo Asakura that I wanted to
do it. After that, in 1987, I created the 5th term
"Hillside Plaza" and the 6th term "Hillside
Forum". In addition to housing and stores,
there is a cultural base. I thought that if there
were, people would interact more deeply. "
Since the design of the first increment in 1967, the project continued to grow for thirty years, progressing
through seven stages. Each stage of the development emerged from the pattern set by previous designs but
distinguished itself from them by reflecting revisions of planning regulations, developments of technology,
changing consciousness of the architect, and the shifting character of the urban context as Daikanyama
evolved from a quiet residential area to a bustling commercial district.
CONCEPT
GENTRIFICATION
SITE LOCATION
NEIGHBORHOOD
TRANSFORMATION
PHASE 1 1969
Building A & B
Residential/
Restaurant/
Shop/

Front entrance of Building A

Hillside Terrace - Building A & B

Tokyo Street - early 1970s

PHASE 2 1973
Building C
Residential/
Restaurant/
Shop/

Hillside Terrace - Building C

Inner courtyard of Building C Public space of Building B

PHASE 3 1977
Building D&E
Residential/
Restaurant/
Office/
Shop/

Hillside Terrace - Building E

Hillside Terrace - Building D

Sarugaku Shrine - at the center of phase 3

PHASE 4 1985
ANNEX A & B
Exhibition hall/
Event Space/
Library/
Club/

Hillside Terrace - Annex B

Annex B - Library Hillside Terrace - Annex A

Annex A - Wedding event

PHASE 5 1987
Hillside Plaza
Parking/
Rental Space/

Hillside Terrace - Entrance to the underground space

Hillside Plaza - Music Concert Hillside Plaza - Rental space

PHASE 6 1992
Building F G & H
Residential/
Restaurant/
Shop/
Office/
Gallery/

Hillside Terrace - Building F & G

Building F - gallery ON THE HILL

Hillside Terrace - Building H

Hillside Terrace - Building F

EVENTS&SHOPS
exhibition / concert / school / market / seminar / cafe / resturant / art / goods / fashion
Corner Plaza-Phase 1 1969

Terrace-Phase 1 1969

Parking-Phase 5 1987
Courtyard-Phase 2 1973

Plaza & Mount-Phase 3 1977

Plaza-Phase 6 1992
P E O P L E’ S COMMENTS