Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings structural design of columns and flat ceiling beams in ground floor arcades, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building – Design Development Drawings
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The design of the massive columns along the College Building arcades was not sufficient to take all the moment of the vertical shear forces coming down the outside wall of the building, and then transferring through the ceiling into the ...

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 ...

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.

Photographs of four drawings of one college building, showing the ceiling structural beams on both levels organized in an aperiodic grid, which allows the merging of the structural elements with the features of the individual spaces, highlighting their qualities.

Four views of the College Buildings arcades; massive columns with base and capitals, and the closely-spaced ceiling beams, create a positive space where geometry and function are tightly intertwined.