Eishin Campus – High School: Gymnasium window shaping and details

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 ...

Detail of the elevation of the Gymnasium side wall depicting the unusual shape of the large windows in such spacing that there is an alternating repetition of coherent centers and good shapes of walls and openings, enhanced by the window ...

Large scale model testing shape, proportions and details of the Gymnasium windows.

Interior of the Gymnasium, building empty, ligths off, windows reflecting in the floor.

Two photographs of the windows, the first focusing on one only and the other on a sequence of three. The shape and treatment of the windows and of the space between them in alternating repetition create centers in different levels ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

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 ...

“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, ...