Photograph

The Campus of Eishin – High School: Gymnasium – Black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail – Photographs

01/05/1985

Focus on Details

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 in situ.

Photograph:

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

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

Projects 1 Items

Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium 1982 to 1985

Nihongi 112-1, Iruma-shi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Educational, Realized, Construction completed in 1985

Client:

Higashino High School - Hisae Hosoi, Managing Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hans-Joachim Neis, Gary Black, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Artemis Anninou

Contractor:

Fujita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Construction Drawings done after layout Construction management along with on-site design decisions Innovative construction methods

The Gymnasium is a large, 11,340 square feet, wooden building, surrounded by the water of the lake and accessed through a bridge. The walls covered with black plaster, and the dark red metal roof give its exterior identity, and wood ...

Drawings 1 Items

The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail - Design Development Drawings 01/04/1984

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Elevation, Details

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

Digitized

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 ...