Eishin Campus – High School: Main Gate terrazzo wall surface

The Main Gate is loated at the end of the entrance strteet. It is the main entrance to the High School, a three-story building with ornamental plaster and traditional grey smoked tile roof.

The main gate with checkered diagonal terrazzo surface made of cement and marble dust, ground to a polish. One of them was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.

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 ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...