Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building

The two college buildings on the north side of the College Complex were incorporated into the High School; they are located to the right and left of the Central Hall, flanked by the Arts and Science buildings. Each two-storey college ...

Four detailed drawings of the large classrooms, including a) the ceiling framing plan of the room with the wide and flat beams and the massive cross beams, b) the longitudinal section, c) the cross section, and d) a construction detail.

Four views of a small cardboard model of the structural ceiling beams.

View of a small cardboard model of the structural ceiling beams.

Interior of one lecture room with the structure of the ceiling beams.

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...