Eishin Campus – High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses

1984

Construction System, Heavy Timber Load Bearing Structure

Gymnasium hammerbeam roof trusses, spanning 53 feet, with mortise and tenon connection details, and specially fabricated steel connections for joints.

Content of

Project 1 Items

Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium 1982 to 1985

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

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in 1985

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 ...

Contents

Drawings 1 Items

The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses - Design Development Drawings 9 9) Detail of another steel plate fabricated for special commections 01/04/1984

Design Development, Section, Details

Nine drawings of truss sections and details; its stepped structure shapes harmoniously the interior gym space.

Photographs 5 Items

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References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Books 1 Items

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

Book Chapters 1 Items

Chapter 16. Continuous Invention of New Materials and Techniques, 6 / Heavy Wood Construction

Publication,

Course Material 1 Items

Wholeness and Order in Large Span Roof Trusses 01/01/1985

Academic, Student Work, Professional Report Draft

63-page structural analysis of wooden truss behavior relating the earlier approach of their construction with the present, and refering to the design of the timber roof trusses of the Central Hall, the Gymnasium and the Judo Hall of the Eishin ...