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Eishin Campus – High School: Central Hall massive concrete piers
1985Four-feet thick concrete base walls with arched openings create an alternating repetition between massive piers and deep openings, with positive space and good shape both on the piers and the arches. Arches and seats form alcoves, and the piers support the heavy timber frame and roof truss of the upper structure.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall massive concrete piers - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
Two sketches, the first of the pier and the second of the alcove, complimenting each other, from the point of view of positive and negative; what is positive for the first is the negative for the other, both maintaing their ...
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall massive concrete piers - Photographs
01/05/1985
One B & W and one color photograph of the massive concrete piers, forming alcoves, arches and seats inside the Central Hall. Alternating repetion with positive space, centers and boundaries are clearly manifested on them. One of them was exhibited at ...
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall massive concrete piers - Photographs
01/05/1985
Three views of the arched alcove and seats between the massive concrete piers.
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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 ...
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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
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.
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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
2002
“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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...