Go BackThe Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall massive concrete piers – Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984Two sketches, the first of the pier and the second of the alcove, presenting the alternating elements of the side wall. Pier and alcove complimenting each other, from the point of view of positive and negative; what is positive for the first is the negative for the other, both maintaing their good shape and centers in different levels of scale.
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