Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings structural design of columns and flat ceiling beams in ground floor arcades, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building – Design Development Drawings

The design of the massive columns along the College Building arcades was not sufficient to take all the moment of the vertical shear forces coming down the outside wall of the building, and then transferring through the ceiling into the ...

The spatial and dimensional requirements of the large classrooms on the first floor, the long arcades on the ground floor, and the entrance volume led to an asymmetrical division of spaces to accomodate the differentiated shapes and sizes. The two ...

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.

Views of one sketch and four drawings of one college building; the sketch juxtaposes a simple grid to an aperiodic grid, and the next drawing shows the pattern of beams at the first and second ceiling levels, organized in an ...

Four views of the College Buildings arcades; massive columns with base and capitals, and the ceiling beams embedded in the long building, create a positive space where geometry and function are tightly intertwined.