The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and then finally transferring it to a final site plan – Photographs of drawings
01/11/1982Final scale site plan of the Eishin Campus, presents the outcome of the design process, which included the layout on the ground and its testing with numerous sketches and models in various scales. It should be noted that the three college buildings on the south site of the ridge, the Library and the Research Center complex, at the west end of the ridge, have not been constructed.
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, and at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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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 Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and then finally transferring it to a final site plan - Photographs of drawings
Scale site plan of the Eishin Campus
01/11/1982
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and then finally transferring it to a final site plan - Photographs of drawings
Scale site plan of the Eishin Campus - black white reversal
01/11/1982
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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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Design and Construction is one Integrated Making 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 ...
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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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14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US"
07/06/2014 to
23/11/2014
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 ...
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Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing Society´s Transitions"
21/05/2014 to
06/10/2014
The 40 architects already awarded the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture participated and exhibited their works. The exhibition was on international touring until 2016. Christopher Alexander’s participation included the extensive presentation of the Mexicali project in the “Saving the People’s Habitat” ...
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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, 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 Campus.
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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 Hosoi and Chris 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, and at the ...
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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
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 ...