Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings & the aperiodic structural grid
1985The spatial and dimensional requirements of the large classrooms on the first floor, the long arcades on the ground floor, and the entrance volume led to an asymmetrical division of spaces to accomodate the differentiated shapes and sizes. The two large classrooms of different sizes and the entrance volume in between, cut across the building at asymmetric points, and required massive beams to span the whole width of the building. The arcade along the building, below the large classorooms, required its own regural spacing of columns and beams.
These structural requirements and the need to keep good shape in the spaces, gave rise directly to an aperiodic structural grid, which worked successfuly, resolving both geometrical and structural needs.
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Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building - Design Development Drawings
27/04/1984
Four detailed drawings of the large classrooms, including a) the ceiling framing plan of the room with the wide and flat beams and the massive cross beams, b) the longitudinal section, c) the cross section, and d) a construction detail.
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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 - Design Development Drawings
27/04/1984
Two detailed drawings of the College Buildings arcade, including a) the ceiling framing plan of the arcade with the wide and flat beams and b) the cross section.
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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, ...