Go BackThe Campus of Eishin- High School: Administration building exterior wall with οrnament – Photographs
01/01/1984Four images showing the construction process of the concrete diagonal lattice on the second storey wall, using styrofoam formwork.
Photograph:
- 1) Styrofoam fillers glued on the wall, forming the diagonal lattice of the concrete splines
- 2) Detail of the formwork shown in the previous image
- 3) The grey concrete lattice of the wall ready before the white plaster is applied inside the diagonal squares
- 4) The lattice of the wall completed as viewed at the end wall of the building
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
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