Tokyo International Forum: Giant Vierendeel Trusses – Photographs of drawings

Precast Vierendeel box beams, six meters deep, spanning 50 meters at a height of 20 metters. The beams are pierced by huge chrysanthemum-shaped voids, which are illuminated.

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.

Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...

Invited design competition entry for a complex of conference halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, and other public facilities at a central site in downtown Tokyo, occupied by the City Hall, which was to be razed to make way for this project. ...

Color perspective view of the interior space of Convention Hall A, depicting the six pairs of Vierendeel bent type of beams with chrysanthemum hollow cuts in them, as submitted to competition. Two additional perspectives, one similar to submitted one but ...

Three preliminary color perspective sketches of the interior space of Convention Hall A; the first gives a rather complete but roughly drawn overview, while the other two provide the basic elements of space, with focus on the Vierendeel beams with ...

Two black and white perspective views of the interior space of Convention Hall A, depicting the six pairs of Vierendeel bent type of beams with chrysanthemum hollow cuts in them, as submitted to competition. The first is an early perspective ...

Perspective view of the interior of the Grand Entrance Lobby. It shows the main staircase leading to the enormous Convention Hall, whose chrysanthemum trusses are just visible.

Photograph of drawing in 1:200, with the floor plan and section of the main Convention Hall, an enormous room, 50 meters by 70 meters, whose position defined the organization of the entire design.