Photograph

The Campus of Eishin- High School: Main Gate terrazzo wall surface – Photographs

01/05/1985

Exterior View

Two views of the main gate wall with checkered diagonal terrazzo surface made of cement and marble dust, ground to a polish.
One of them was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US” in 2014.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Eishin Campus - High School: Main Gate terrazzo wall surface 1985

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis

The main gate with checkered diagonal terrazzo surface made of cement and marble dust, ground to a polish.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Projects

Eishin Campus - High School: Main Gate 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. Design Development and Construction Drawings done after layout Construction management along with on-site design decisions

The Main Gate is loated at the end of the entrance strteet. It is the main entrance to the High School, a three-story building with ornamental plaster and traditional grey smoked tile roof.

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 ...