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The Campus of Eishin – High School: College Buildings – The shaping of the classroom windows – Photographs of mock-up

01/03/1984

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Full-scale mock-up of a typical window in the large classrooms, made of cardboard and other soft materials, for testing shapes, sizes and proportions. When worked out, these windows with these dimensions were installed in the college buildings .

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

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Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings classroom window shaping 1984

Building Detail, Window Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Artemis Anninou

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.

References

Scientific Research

Projects

Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings D and E 1982 to 1987

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

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in Jun-1987

Client:

Higashino High School - Hisae Hosoi, Managing Director

C.E.S. staff:

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

Contractor:

Fujita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Project cost:

$1,500,000

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 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 ...

Drawings

Eishin Campus - High School: College Buildings classroom window shaping - Design Development Drawings 27/04/1984

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50

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. .