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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Lamp for Great Hall – Photographs of mock-up

01/11/1986

Construction Experiment & Mock-up

Three photos from the making of a hanging simple lamp for the Great Hall. The first presents a sketch by Christopher Alexander, the second the prototype lamp, when first made on the floor of the hall, and the third when rigged up and hung to see how people received it.
They were exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.

Photographer:

Hansjoachim Neis/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall lighting fixtures 1986

Work of Art for Project, Lighting Fixture

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Design, fabrication and installation of the lights of the Great Hall. A single row of hanging lights down the middle of the nave. Each light fixture is a circle of lights, hanging from a point, in the form of candelabras ...

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Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Projects

Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall - Auditorium 1982 to 1986

Nihongi 112-1, Iruma-shi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in May-1986

Client:

Higashino High School - Hisae Hosoi, Managing Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hans-Joachim Neis, Gary Black, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Contractor:

Structural contractor: Fujita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Finish contractor: Center for Environmental Structure, 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

A large ceremonial building located at the main square and forming one edge of the lake. The main bridge that crosses the lake starts next to its massive podium. Its floor area is 14,000 square feet and has a three-story ...

Public Events

14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US" 07/06/2014 to 23/11/2014

U.S. Pavillion in Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

La Biennale di Venezia

The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms ...