Go BackEishin Campus – High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members
1984Douglas fir horse-shoe-shaped truss, a pure compression truss, with no interior bracing, but with a longitudinal exterior X-truss. The truss is connected to the massive concrete piers at the base with moment connections.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members - Photographs of model
01/01/1983
The balsa wood model of the truss assisted in conceiving the structural behavior, especially under earthquake forces. It was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members - Photographs
01/01/1984
Four craftsmen having lunch, lying on the curved truss bents, before the bents were erected inside the Central Building. It was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
The Central Hall truss drawing with details prepared by Mr. Sumiyoshi.
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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.
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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, ...