The Campus of Eishin – High School: College Buildings – Black shikkui ornaments & The shaping of the classroom windows – Photographs

An ornamental band in black shikkui just below the second floor windows runs around the all white second floor exterior wall of the building.

Windows in the largest classrooms of the College Buildings, with harmonious internal organization in panes and glazing bars. Full-size mockups with various soft materials were developed until shapes and sizes worked harmoniously.

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 ...

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 ...

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

The two college buildings on the north side of the College Complex were incorporated into the High School; they are located to the right and left of the Central Hall, flanked by the Arts and Science buildings. Each two-storey college ...

Detailed drawing of a section of the ornamental band, built in black shikkui plaster all around the exterior walls of the building, just below the second floor windows .

Three elevation drawings depicting the windows of the large classrooms; the first as a parital interior elevation of the classroom and the other two as partial elevations of the two facades of the College buildings. .