Eishin Campus – High School: Ornamental wall frieze for the homeroom buildings
1985Cast concrete ornaments on the wall frieze of the Homeroom buildings.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Single Homebase Buildings
1982 to
1985
The Homebase Buildings form the homebase street. They are two-story masonry buildings with pitched tiled roofs and concrete ornamental wall friezes. Each one has its own garden, with a stair leading to the second floor classrom. There are five such ...
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Eishin Campus - High School: Double Homebase Buildings
1982 to
1985
The Homebase Buildings form the homebase street. They are two-story masonry buildings with pitched tiled roofs and concrete ornamental wall friezes. Each one has its own garden, with a stair leading to the second floor classrom. There are two double ...
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Ornamental wall frieze for the Homeroom Buildings & roof eave detail - Photographs
01/05/1985
Row of handmade ornaments, made of cast concrete and hand-filled with white plaster, with high contrast, and roof eave and cornice detailing.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Ornaments on the walls of Homeroom Building and the Dining Hall - Photographs
01/05/1985
Close up view of the Homeroom building wall with cross shaped floral ornaments cast in the concrete, in contrast with the brown and white frieze of curved diamonds on the wall of the Dining Hall in the background.
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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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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...
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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...