🇯🇵Japan·Private home, not open to visitors

Rokko Housing II (六甲の集合住宅II)

Nada-ku, Kobe (Hyōgo)

Sources checked October 2026

“Fifty homes on a 5.2 m square module, stepped up the slope of Mount Rokko.”

Year: 1993
Architect: Tadao Ando
Type: Housing complex
Access: Occupied homes, no visits

The second phase of the Rokko complex, finished in 1993, for a different client from the first. Fifty reinforced-concrete homes, built on a square module 5.2 m on a side, step up the slope at the foot of Mount Rokko, with 9,044 m2 of floor area.

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 II extends Rokko I, finished in 1983: after that first project, Tadao Ando had proposed developing the whole area for slope housing. Each phase had a different client. The project for the second phase, begun in 1985, was completed in 1993.

Architecture

The first two phases have homes of widely varied sizes, layouts and orientations, because their module has to adapt to the terrain where it meets it. Rokko II's module measures 5.2 m by 5.2 m; the phase has fifty homes and 9,044 m2 of floor area.

As in phases I and III, the structure and the facades are reinforced concrete and the stepped composition follows the slope, with axes and shaded in-between spaces that serve as shared places among neighbours.