Kengo Kuma nestles staggered housing complex on Japanese hillside

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has added a staggered housing development, which employs construction techniques taken from dams, to a mountainous location in Japan.
Named Miyanomori, the development comprises 15 homes that are set across a hilly landscape at the base of the Okura Mountain in the city of Sapporo, in Japan's island prefecture of Hokkaido.
Rather than constructing the complex within a residential tower, Kengo Kuma and Associates used a stepped design that ai