Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building
1985The ceiling designed with massive concrete crossbeams at first to cope with the wide span, and a horizontal mat of wide and flat beams in close spacing, acting as a horizontal moment-resisting diaphragm, provides resistence to horizontal forces caused by eartquakes. Stepped corbels connect the two systems of beams.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: College Buildings - Flat beam ceiling structural design in large classrooms - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
Four views of a small cardboard model of the structural ceiling beams.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: College Buildings - Flat beam ceiling structural design in arcades - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
View of a small cardboard model of the structural ceiling beams.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: College Buildings - Flat beam ceiling structural design in large classrooms - Photographs
01/07/1987
Interior of one lecture room with the structure of the ceiling beams.
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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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, ...