Drawing

Eishin Campus – High School: Club House new form of hollow, composite, wood and plywood columns and beams: Framing Plans

17/02/1995

Design Development, Framing Plan

Three pages of two floor plans and one roof framing plan; all drawings include explanatory notes of structural members.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:100

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Eishin Campus - High School: Club House new form of hollow, composite, wood and plywood columns and beams 1995

Construction System, Monocoque Construction

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, others

Construction system with structural members which are large, yet light, efficient and structurally sound; it is based on massive hollow beams and columns, about 24" by 24", built out of plywood and small section lumber, with frequent interior collars, thus ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

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, ...

Correspondence 2 Items

Drawings 1 Items

Eishin Campus - High School: Club House new form of hollow, composite, wood and plywood columns and beams: Foundation beam and column details 17/02/1995

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Details

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1:20

Two sketch drawings of foundation details. One is a horizontal section of building corner depicting foundation with dry stack block wall, peripheral and cross running box-beams connected to solid wood and wood-box columns; the second is a vertical section detail ...

Photographs 1 Items

The Campus of Eishin - High School: Club House new form of hollow, composite, wood and plywood columns and beams - Photographs of drawings 01/01/1994

Construction Innovation, Drawing

Photographer:

Hiroshi Nakano/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Digitized

Drawings of construction details for the massive hollow beams and columns, about 24″ by 24″, built out of plywood and small section lumber, with frequent interior collars.