Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings structural design of columns and flat ceiling beams in ground floor arcades, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building

1985
Construction System, Reinforced Concrete
The design of the massive columns along the College Building arcades was not sufficient to take all the moment of the vertical shear forces coming down the outside wall of the building, and then transferring through the ceiling into the inside wall of the arcade. The horizontal mat of wide flat beams in close spacing, acting as a horizontal moment-resisting diaphragm, was also required in the arcade ceiling.
Created by:
Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Artemis Anninou
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