Eishin Campus – High School: Campus Gardens and Landscape

The 62-hectare Campus site is mostly covered by green areas and is organized with gardens, sport fields, trees, a grove, a lawn, and a large number of tea bushes in strategic positions, preserved as found on the site. A lake was created as a major element of the campus. It is a focus for activity, with ducks and boats accessible by students, as well as for quiet reflection and beauty. A wooden bridge arches over the lake, making the entire campus acceesible. The lake with its bridges, together with paths in the landscaped areas and the main pedestrian street network, create the connecting tissue of the whole place and attribute an urban structure and feel in the campus. The lawn is sloping all the way from the cafeteria to the edge of the lake. There is a particular secret gaden with a tree in its center, which extends beyond the teachers' garden in front of the lounge for resting and enjoyment, formed along the galleries which connect the rooms of the faculty hall. Along the Homebase Street, there is a sequence of ascending small gardens, flanked by courtyards formed between the homeroom buildings, separated from the activity of the street by fences.