Eishin Campus – High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses

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 ...

One drawing of the truss viewed in cross section, in which its stepped structure shapes harmoniously the interior gym space, and another one viewed in longitudinal section, in which the cross bracing is visible. Seven smaller scale drawings provide the ...

Balsa wood work model of the building with the heavy timber trusses.

Views of two drawings with fabricated connection details of the truss members.

Three photos of the building interior with the hammerbeam trusses giving good shape to the space.

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, ...

“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, ...

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 ...