NEXT 21 is an experimental housing project designed for coming to grips with these problems through continuous trial and error. I feel that the joint cooperation of specialists in the fields of construction and the environment for actually constructing a single, localized form of building is highly significant. In the future, I hope that the various experiments carried out in this project will contribute to meaningful suggestions for urban housing to be built in the 21st century. In their efforts to find the most desirable type of urban dwelling in the 21st century, a number of design and planning professionals in energy, environmental, urban, architectural and utility system got together, and presented various problems they were confronting their respective sectors for discussions. NEXT 21 is a solution arisen from such a process.
Cities are excellent places for living.
Not only because of the convenience they afford us, but also because of their many cultural facilities and other amenities. In the future, people will be required to live in cities in order to stimulate healthy urban growth. This will, in turn, necessitate a new form of housing based upon this assumption. Suburban type large-scale housing estates have successively been adopted on an experimental basis in an attempt to design and develop cities. However, there have been few attempts to revitalize an awareness in the attraction of urban housing in urban districts.