The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground by combining the two systems of centers – Photographs of drawings
2 2) Site plan with buildings shaded black

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The small balsa-wood model of the site, scale 1:500, in the Berkely office, on which the solution finally became apparent. The photo was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.