Chapter 6. Positive Space in Engineering Structure and Geometry, 6 / The Great Hall at Eishin

“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, ...

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.

A large ceremonial building located at the main square and forming one edge of the lake. The main bridge that crosses the lake starts next to its massive podium. Its floor area is 14,000 square feet and has a three-story ...

The size and spacing of the columns in the Great Hall was determined primarily by working out the solid-void relationship, which was done in a 1:20 scale model of the building. The space between the columns came to play an ...