Eishin Campus – High School: Gymnasium window shaping and details – Design Development Drawings

01/04/1984

Design Development, Elevation, Details

Detail of the elevation of the Gymnasium side wall depicting the unusual shape of the large windows in such spacing that there is an alternating repetition of coherent centers and good shapes of walls and openings, enhanced by the window panes and the ornament on the wall. A vertical and a horizontal section provide information for their construction.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50, 1:10

Content of

Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium window shaping and details 1984

Building Detail, Window Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou

A row of unsual shaped windows, creating positive space in alternation with the beautifully shaped wall segments, and coherent individual centers, small and large.

Contents

Drawings

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

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