The Campus of Eishin – High School: Gymnasium black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail – Design Development Drawings

01/04/1984

Design Development, Elevation, Details

Two drawing of the Gymnasium side wall depicting the alternating sequence of windows and wall segments with the orange-painted steel plates, just below the roof eave, which mark the ends of the truss rafters and also function as ornaments on the wall.

Drawing:

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50, 1:10

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail 1985

Building Detail, Plasterwork, Roof & Eave

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou

Gymnasium black shikkui plastered exterior walls, unusual shaped windows, roof eave and orange-painted steel bracket plates holding the roof rafters.

References

Scientific Research 2 Items

Photographs 1 Items

The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium - Black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail - Photographs 01/05/1985

Construction Innovation, Focus on Details

Photographer:

Hiroshi Nakano/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Digitized

The black shikkui plastered walls in alteration with the unusual shaped wooden windows, the red roof and the orange-painted steel bracket plates holding the roof rafters –assumingly just ornaments– create a field of centers. Relationships between these elements were tested ...