The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall with massive columns and rather small space between them – Photographs
01/01/1986Two views of the Great Hall interior before it was painted, with focus on the column shaping and the space formed between them, as well as on the natural light entering through the rather small winows, almost framed by the columns.
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Design and Construction is one Integrated Making 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 ...
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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.
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