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.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou

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

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 ...

Contents

Drawings 1 Items

The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses - Design Development Drawings 01/04/1984

Design Development, Section, Details

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50, 1:10

Digitized

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

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

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

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

697 pp

“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

Book title:

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

Pages:

537-543

Digitized

Course Material 1 Items

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

Academic, Student Work, Professional Report Draft

Authors:

Gary Black, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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 ...