The Campus of Eishin- High School: Dining Hall Heavy Timber Structure with moment resisting frames – Photographs of model

01/03/1984

Model

Balsa wood work model of the heavy timber structural frame. The black pieces of carboard indicate the location of plywood sheets, for the moment resisting frames.

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: Dining Hall heavy timber structure with moment resisting frames 1984

Construction System, Heavy Timber Load Bearing Structure

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou

Dining Hall wooden structure with moment resisting frames due to unusually large windows.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Projects

Eishin Campus - High School: Dining Hall 1982 to 1985

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

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in 1985

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 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 Dining Hall is located on a high point of the site overlooking the lake, with an extensive lawn in front of it, and the bridge crossing the lake leading into it. It is a wooden, long and narrow building ...