Eishin Campus – High School: Campus Gardens and Landscape
1986 to 1989The 62-hectare Campus site is mostly covered by green areas and is organized with gardens, sport fields, trees, a grove, a lawn, and a large number of tea bushes in strategic positions, preserved as found on the site. A lake was created as a major element of the campus. It is a focus for activity, with ducks and boats accessible by students, as well as for quiet reflection and beauty. A wooden bridge arches over the lake, making the entire campus acceesible. The lake with its bridges, together with paths in the landscaped areas and the main pedestrian street network, create the connecting tissue of the whole place and attribute an urban structure and feel in the campus. The lawn is sloping all the way from the cafeteria to the edge of the lake. There is a particular secret gaden with a tree in its center, which extends beyond the teachers' garden in front of the lounge for resting and enjoyment, formed along the galleries which connect the rooms of the faculty hall. Along the Homebase Street, there is a sequence of ascending small gardens, flanked by courtyards formed between the homeroom buildings, separated from the activity of the street by fences.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Photographs of the campus landscape and the secret garden
01/01/1987
The first image looks into the secret garden at the back of the administration building and faculty hall; the other three show the view into the garden, when sitting on the veranda of the Faculty Hall, and looking towards the ...
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Photographs of the campus landscape
01/01/1987
View of the campus landscape with tea bushes, in the area of the Cafeteria.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Photographs of the campus landscape
01/01/1987
Students in the gardens.
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