Go BackThe Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and the creation of positive spaces – Photographs of drawings
2 2nd graphic version in which the white stuff shows the open space in a more developed organization
The green spaces in these two drawings represent pedestrian space (viewed as if it were a solid material), created by the layout process on the land. These green entities, the green organization, the paved outdoor areas is the most significant aspect of the campus. These green spaces formed by the buildings establish the gestalt of the site plan as a whole.
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Eishin Campus - High School and College Complex
1982 to
1987
The project was envisioned to be a new combined High School and College Complex for the Eishin Gakuen Foundation, in Saitama prefecture, outside Tokyo, and was designed as such. The campus was to be the working environment of a population ...
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Eishin Campus - High School
1982 to
1995
The High School is the part of the Eishin Campus that was constructed, with a total construction area of 12,000 square meters. It is a complex of thirty-five buildings, with pedestrian colonnaded streets, gates and gardens, and a lake with ...
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and a sketch of a possible layout for a campus community - Photographs of drawings
01/10/1982
Sketch made by Mr. Hagiwara, a faculty member, showing his understanding of a possible layout for a campus community, one that would include the general structure and major details, as he understood it from the pattern language for the Eishin ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground - Photographs
01/10/1982
One of the many occasions when Mr. Hisae Hosoi and Christopher Alexander went together to study the project site. The photo was exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2, ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and the diagrams of the seven most important centers of the pattern language - Photographs of drawings
4 4) Another graphic version of the previous diagram
01/10/1982
Two diagrams, not to scale, in two different graphic vesions each. They show the seven most important centers in the pattern language of the Eishin Campus, which together give a broad conceptual picture of a possible layout that the centers ...
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