Eishin Campus – High School: Roof eave detail for the homeroom buildings
1985Heavy concrete cornice on the Homeroom buildings, when roof meets wall.
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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: Roof eave detail for the Homeroom Buildings - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1983
Sketch of a roof eave by Christopher Alexander and sketches for different moldings in an attempt to identify the most suitable.
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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: Roof eave detail for the Homeroom Buildings - Photographs
01/01/1987
View of the roofs of the Homeroom buildings with the stepped white cornices running all long the wall where it meets the roof.
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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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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 ...