The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings walls – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1983

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Experiments and mock-ups for testing distribution of materials, understanding and defining the relative percentage of the different materials used for the walls. Concrete, plaster, wood and tiles were tested in the mock-ups, so that the veriety of materials has hierarchy and contrast.

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: Homeroom buildings wall mockups for testing ornaments 1983

Building Detail, Wall Treatment

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis

Wall mockups with concrete block, white plaster, black plaster, green plaster, wood, stone in different proportions.

Contents

Photographs

The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings walls - Photographs of mock-up First test of material distribution in a wall mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color
The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings walls - Photographs of mock-up Second test of material distribution in a wall mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color
The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings walls - Photographs of mock-up Third test of material distribution in a wall mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color
The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings walls - Photographs of mock-up Fourth test of material distribution in a wall mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color
The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings walls - Photographs of mock-up Fifth test of material distribution in a wall mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

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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 ...
Wholeness and Feeling in Structure-Enhancing Transformations

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Feeling as the Core of the Process

Christopher Alexander formulated this principle as follows: In any living process, or any process of design or making, the way forward, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. "Feeling" ...

Projects

Eishin Campus - High School: Single Homebase Buildings 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

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

The Homebase Buildings form the homebase street. They are two-story masonry buildings with pitched tiled roofs and concrete ornamental wall friezes. Each one has its own garden, with a stair leading to the second floor classrom. There are five such ...
Eishin Campus - High School: Double Homebase Buildings 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

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

The Homebase Buildings form the homebase street. They are two-story masonry buildings with pitched tiled roofs and concrete ornamental wall friezes. Each one has its own garden, with a stair leading to the second floor classrom. There are two double ...

Photographs

The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings ornament - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Image with two C.E.S. members making experiments in the yard at Eishin. They were to become prototypes for ornaments on the homeroom buildings. It was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
The Campus of Eishin- High School: Homeroom buildings ornament - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1983

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Ornament mock-up using concrete blocks, primarily used in the homeroom buildings.