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Encyclopedia: Gunkanjima (199 words) |
 | Gunkanjima Island (è»è¦å³¶) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. |
| The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. |
| Gunkanjima is located at 32.628° N, 129.737° E. |
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| On Gunkanjima, however, not only was the common space ratio higher than elsewhere, the public realm was arranged and used in such a way as to compensate for the restricted size of the living space. |
| This was because the architects made use of the Kyo-ma System of tatami arrangement whereby the tatami multiples correspond to internal dimensions of a room and exclude the thickness of structural members such as pillars. |
| Unlike the apartment houses developed in Europe, the high rise apartment houses on Gunkanjima may be interpreted as traditional rows on tenements (nagaya) superimposed one above another as an experiment in exploiting the potential of the new structural material, reinforced concrete, in order to make optimum use of the limited land available. |
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