Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings & the aperiodic structural grid

The spatial and dimensional requirements of the large classrooms on the first floor, the long arcades on the ground floor, and the entrance volume led to an asymmetrical division of spaces to accomodate the differentiated shapes and sizes. The two large classrooms of different sizes and the entrance volume in between, cut across the building at asymmetric points, and required massive beams to span the whole width of the building. The arcade along the building, below the large classorooms, required its own regural spacing of columns and beams. These structural requirements and the need to keep good shape in the spaces, gave rise directly to an aperiodic structural grid, which worked successfuly, resolving both geometrical and structural needs. .