The Campus of Eishin – High SchooI: Central Hall – Photographs of the project during construction

01/01/1984

Works in Progress

The Central Hall under construction in 1984. As we see here, although this building is relatively large, it is being put together in a way of working which allows individual craftsmen to work piecemeal, keeping their individual tasks at their own scale, yet allowing people, cooperatively, to create a relative large and complex whole.
The photo was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project

Eishin Campus - High School: Central Hall 1982 to 1985

Nihongi 112-1, Iruma-shi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in 1985

Client:

Higashino High School - Hisae Hosoi, Managing Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hans-Joachim Neis, Gary Black, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Contractor:

Fujita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Construction Drawings done after layout Construction management along with on-site design decisions Innovative construction methods

The Central Hall is located at the end of the homebase street. Α student gathering area with four-foot-thick concrete base walls and arched openings, with built-in benches, which double as entrances to the building. Arches and seats form alcoves, and ...

References

Scientific Research

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, ...

Public Events

14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US" 07/06/2014 to 23/11/2014

U.S. Pavillion in Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

La Biennale di Venezia

The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms ...