Photograph

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

01/05/1985

Focus on Details

Two photographs of the windows, the first focusing on one only and the other on a sequence of three. The shape and treatment of the windows and of the space between them in alternating repetition create centers in different levels of scale.

Photographer:

Hiroshi Nakano/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

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.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

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 ...