The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and designing in three dimensions by making, using and testing models – Photographs of model

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 ...

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 ...

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

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 ...

One 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, ...

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 ...