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Rokko Housing III (六甲の集合住宅III)

Nada-ku, Kobe (Hyōgo)

Sources checked October 2026

“One hundred and seventy-four reinforced-concrete homes stepped along the slope: the third and largest phase of the Rokko complex.”

Year: 1999
Architect: Tadao Ando
Type: Housing complex
Access: Occupied homes, no visits

The third phase of Tadao Ando's housing at the foot of Mount Rokko, in Kobe, finished in 1999. It has one hundred and seventy-four homes and 24,222 m2 of floor area, against fifty homes for the previous phase. More standardised than the first two, for economic and commercial reasons, it keeps their stepped composition and their reinforced concrete.

A private, lived-in home: it is not open to visitors. It is placed without an address, from a public source, at neighbourhood or city level.

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History

Rokko III is the third phase of Tadao Ando's housing at the foot of Mount Rokko, after Rokko I (1983) and Rokko II (1993). It was finished in 1999; each phase had a different client. In 2009 Ando completed a fourth hillside complex at the foot of Mount Rokko, combining a hospital and a nursing home with care.

Architecture

Where the first two phases play on homes of varied sizes, plans and orientations, the third is more standardised, for economic and commercial reasons. The number of homes rises from the twenty of the first phase to one hundred and seventy-four here, for 24,222 m2 of floor area.

As in the two earlier phases, the structure and the facades are reinforced concrete, the stepped composition follows the slope, and shaded axes serve as shared places among neighbours. The site faces south, with views over Osaka Bay as far as the port of Kobe.