Eishin Campus – High School: Gymnasium black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail

The Gymnasium is a large, 11,340 square feet, wooden building, surrounded by the water of the lake and accessed through a bridge. The walls covered with black plaster, and the dark red metal roof give its exterior identity, and wood ...

Detail of the elevation of the Gymnasium side wall depicting the alternating sequence of windows and wall segments with the orange-painted steel plates, below the roof eave, marking the ends of the truss rafters and functioning as ornaments on the ...

The black shikkui plastered walls in alteration with the unusual shaped wooden windows, the red roof and the orange-painted steel bracket plates holding the roof rafters, assumingly just ornaments, create a field of centers. In the second photo the relationship ...

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