Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings classroom window shaping

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 ...

Three elevation drawings depicting the windows of the large classrooms.

Full-scale mock-up of a typical window in the large classrooms, made of cardboard and other soft materials, for testing shapes, sizes and proportions. When worked out, these windows with these dimensions were installed in the college buildings .

Three views of a large scale model of a wall segment of the college buildings, for studying proportions, shapes and relations of the façade elements, namely its windows, the ornamental frieze and columns, and the sought after balance and harmony ...

Two views of the windows in a large classrooms.

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A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

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