The Campus of Eishin – High SchooI: Great Hall – Photographs of drawings

01/01/1984

Drawing

A few of the hard-line drawings of the Great Hall. The layout of centers in columns, bays, beams, windows and arches are visible in the south elevation.

Photograph:

Photographer:

Dan Oshima, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

Project 1 Items

Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall - Auditorium 1982 to 1986

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

Educational, Realized, Construction completed in May-1986

Client:

Higashino High School - Hisae Hosoi, Managing Director

C.E.S. staff:

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

Contractor:

Structural contractor: Fujita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Finish contractor: Center for Environmental Structure, 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

A large ceremonial building located at the main square and forming one edge of the lake. The main bridge that crosses the lake starts next to its massive podium. Its floor area is 14,000 square feet and has a three-story ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Unfolding of Wholeness in Large Buildings by Successive Transformations of the Space

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...