Photograph

The Campus of Eishin – High School: Gymnasium – Heavy timber hammerbeam trusses – Photographs of model

01/03/1984

Model

Balsa wood work model of the building with the heavy timber trusses.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses 1984

Construction System, Heavy Timber Load Bearing Structure

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou

Gymnasium hammerbeam roof trusses, spanning 53 feet, with mortise and tenon connection details, and specially fabricated steel connections for joints.

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: Gymnasium 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 Gymnasium is a large, 11,340 square feet, wooden building, surrounded by the water of the lake and accessed through a bridge. The walls covered with black plaster, and the dark red metal roof give its exterior identity, and wood ...

Drawings

The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses - Design Development Drawings 01/04/1984

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Section, Details

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50, 1:10

One drawing of the truss viewed in cross section, in which its stepped structure shapes harmoniously the interior gym space, and another one viewed in longitudinal section, in which the cross bracing is visible. Seven smaller scale drawings provide the ...