Go BackThe Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground – Photographs
01/10/1982One of the many occasions when Mr. Hisae Hosoi and Christopher Alexander went together to study the project site.
The photo was exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2, and at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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Eishin Campus - High School and College Complex
1982 to
1987
The project was envisioned to be a new combined High School and College Complex for the Eishin Gakuen Foundation, in Saitama prefecture, outside Tokyo, and was designed as such. The campus was to be the working environment of a population ...
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Eishin Campus - High School
1982 to
1995
The High School is the part of the Eishin Campus that was constructed, with a total construction area of 12,000 square meters. It is a complex of thirty-five buildings, with pedestrian colonnaded streets, gates and gardens, and a lake with ...
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14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US"
07/06/2014 to
23/11/2014
The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms ...
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Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing Society´s Transitions"
21/05/2014 to
06/10/2014
The 40 architects already awarded the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture participated and exhibited their works. The exhibition was on international touring until 2016. Christopher Alexander’s participation included the extensive presentation of the Mexicali project in the “Saving the People’s Habitat” ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and a sketch of a possible layout for a campus community - Photographs of drawings
01/10/1982
Sketch made by Mr. Hagiwara, a faculty member, showing his understanding of a possible layout for a campus community, one that would include the general structure and major details, as he understood it from the pattern language for the Eishin ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and the diagrams of the seven most important centers of the pattern language - Photographs of drawings
4 4) Another graphic version of the previous diagram
01/10/1982
Two diagrams, not to scale, in two different graphic vesions each. They show the seven most important centers in the pattern language of the Eishin Campus, which together give a broad conceptual picture of a possible layout that the centers ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and the diagrams of the seven most natural centers in the land - Photographs of drawings
4 4) First sketch attempting to establish relations among the natural centers
01/10/1982
Four diagrams, not to scale, dealing with natural centers identified on the land, which, when connected with the centers of the project identified through the pattern language, can lead to a basic first layout, to be further dveloped.
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