Tokyo International Forum: Giant Vierendeel trusses in the Convention Hall

Invited design competition entry for a complex of conference halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, and other public facilities at a central site in downtown Tokyo, occupied by the City Hall, which was to be razed to make way for this project. ...

Pencil sketch of the Vierendeel truss and its connection to the wall.

Color perspective view of the interior space of Convention Hall A, depicting the six pairs of Vierendeel bent type of beams with chrysanthemum hollow cuts in them, as submitted to competition. Two additional perspectives, one similar to submitted one but ...

Three preliminary color perspective sketches of the interior space of Convention Hall A; the first gives a rather complete but roughly drawn overview, while the other two provide the basic elements of space, with focus on the Vierendeel beams with ...

Two photographs of the perspective views of the Convention Hall interior, an enormous room 50 meters by 70 meters, with large columns. The roof is supported by Vierendeel box beams, pierced by giant chrysanthemum voids, which are illumunated. Two more ...

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 ...

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.

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...