The Campus of Eishin – High School: Design Development Drawings – College Building D

The two college buildings on the north side of the College Complex were incorporated into the High School; they are located to the right and left of the Central Hall, flanked by the Arts and Science buildings. Each two-storey college ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Two sheet of drawings of College Building D, noted as Building No. 32, with the ground floor and second floor plans.

Two sheet of drawings of College Building D, noted as Building No. 32, with four elevations.

One sheet of drawings of College Building D, noted as Building No. 32, with three sections, one longitudinal and two cross section.

Views of one sketch and four drawings of one college building; the sketch juxtaposes a simple grid to an aperiodic grid, and the next drawing shows the pattern of beams at the first and second ceiling levels, organized in an ...