Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building – Design Development Drawings
27/04/1984Four detailed drawings of the large classrooms, including a) the ceiling framing plan of the room with the wide and flat beams and the massive cross beams, b) the longitudinal section, c) the cross section, and d) a construction detail.
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Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building
1985
The ceiling designed with massive concrete crossbeams at first to cope with the wide span, and a horizontal mat of wide and flat beams in close spacing, acting as a horizontal moment-resisting diaphragm, provides resistence to horizontal forces caused by ...
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Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings & the aperiodic structural grid
1985
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 ...
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Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building - Design Development Drawings
Classrom ceiling plan
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Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building - Design Development Drawings
Longitudinal section
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Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings structural design of flat ceiling beams in large classrooms, within the aperiodic structural grid of the building - Design Development Drawings
Cross section
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References
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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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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
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.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: College Buildings - Flat beam ceiling structural design in large classrooms - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
Four views of a small cardboard model of the structural ceiling beams.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: College Buildings - Flat beam ceiling structural design in arcades - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
View of a small cardboard model of the structural ceiling beams.
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The Campus of Eishin - High School: College Buildings - The aperiodic structural grid - Photographs of drawings
01/03/1984
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 ...
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