Photograph

The Campus of Eishin – High School: Gymnasium – Window shaping and details – Photographs of model

01/03/1984

Model

Large scale model testing shape, proportions and details of the Gymnasium windows.

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 window shaping and details 1984

Building Detail, Window Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, Artemis Anninou

A row of unsual shaped windows, creating positive space in alternation with the beautifully shaped wall segments, and coherent individual centers, small and large.

References

Scientific Research

Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction 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 ...

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

Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium window shaping and details - Design Development Drawings 01/04/1984

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Elevation, Details

Designers:

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

Medium:

Blueprint

Size:

Extract from 24"x42" drawing

Scale:

1:50, 1:10

Detail of the elevation of the Gymnasium side wall depicting the unusual shape of the large windows in such spacing that there is an alternating repetition of coherent centers and good shapes of walls and openings, enhanced by the window ...