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Eishin Campus – High School: Great Hall with massive columns and rather small space between them.
1983The size and spacing of the columns in the Great Hall was determined primarily by working out the solid-void relationship, which was done in a 1:20 scale model of the building. The space between the columns came to play an important role. Following a lengthy process of testing, the best size of the column was a square section of about 1 meter by 1 meter, and the spacing between them 2 meters. Though structurally they could be further apart, the decision was made to use them as a moment-resisting frame, and consequently preserve the powerful gometry of the space. The feeling of the space was enhance by rather small openings framed by the massive structure of the columns.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall with massive columns and raher small space between them - Photographs of model
01/01/1983
Close-up views of the Great Hall first large scale model of its interior, at 1:20 scale, to enable the vizualization of its interior with as much detail as possible. It was used for working out and testing the size and ...
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall with massive columns and rather small space between them - Photographs
01/01/1986
Two views of the Great Hall interior before it was painted, with focus on the column shaping and the space formed between them, as well as on the natural light entering through the rather small winows, almost framed by the ...
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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.