The Campus of Eishin- High School: College Buildings – Flat beam ceiling structural design in ground floor arcades – Photographs

01/11/1989

Exterior View

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

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

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 1985

Construction System, Reinforced Concrete

Created by:

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

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 ...

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Projects

Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings D and E 1982 to 1987

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

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in Jun-1987

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 cost:

$1,500,000

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 two college buildings on the north side of the College Complex were incorporated into the High School; they are located to the right and left of the Central Hall, flanked by the Arts and Science buildings. Each two-storey college ...

Drawings

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 27/04/1984

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Framing Plan, Section

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50, 1:10

Two detailed drawings of the College Buildings arcade, including a) the ceiling framing plan of the arcade with the wide and flat beams and b) the cross section.