The Campus of Eishin- High School: Administration building exterior wall with οrnament – Photographs

Administration Building exterior wall treatment, shaped as a trellis of fine concrete splines.

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 ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

The administration building is located on the main suare, opposite from the Great Hall. It is a masonry building with an intricate ornamental lattice-like pattern on its second floor exterior wall. Within its 5,430 square feet floor area, it includes ...

Four images showing the construction process of the concrete diagonal lattice on the second storey wall, using styrofoam formwork.