Photograph

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

01/03/1984

Design Process, Model

The Great Hall model, as included in the large scale model of the whole project.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project

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

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References

Scientific Research

Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...