Eishin Campus – High School: Central Hall
1982 to 1985The Central Hall is located at the end of the homebase street. Α student gathering area with four-foot-thick concrete base walls and arched openings, with built-in benches, which double as entrances to the building. Arches and seats form alcoves, and the piers support the timber frame and roof truss of the upper structure. The roof truss is made of Douglas fir curved members and contributes to the good shape and positive space of the interior.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Central Hall exterior wall X-truss, connected to the interior roof truss
1984
Longitudinal X-truss on the long direction exterior wall of the building below the roof, connected to the interior curved truss of the building with moment connections. .
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Eishin Campus - High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members
1984
Douglas fir horse-shoe-shaped truss, a pure compression truss, with no interior bracing, but with a longitudinal exterior X-truss. The truss is connected to the massive concrete piers at the base with moment connections.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Central Hall massive concrete piers
1985
Four-feet thick concrete base walls with arched openings create an alternating repetition between massive piers and deep openings, with positive space and good shape both on the piers and the arches. Arches and seats form alcoves, and the piers support ...
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Central Hall - Photographs of the project during construction
01/01/1984
The Central Hall under construction in 1984. As we see here, although this building is relatively large, it is being put together in a way of working which allows individual craftsmen to work piecemeal, keeping their individual tasks at their ...
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Central Hall - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
A few of the hard-line drawings of the Central Hall as completed, including floor plan, transverse and longitudinal sections and side elevation.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Central Hall - Photographs of the building
01/05/1985
The Central Hall when its construction was completed.
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References
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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 ...
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Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure
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.
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Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials
One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
2002
“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...
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The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth - A Struggle between Two World-Systems
2012
The ninth and last volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is the “The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth – A Struggle between Two World-Systems”. The book puts ...
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Chapter 15. Emergence of Formal Geometry, 11 / What Seems as an Imposition of Geometry is Necessary as a Part of Every Living Process
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Chapter 17. Simplicity, 8 / At Each Step Get Rid of Everything That is not Required; "Making Life" and "Being Simple" are the Same
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Chapter 6. Positive Space in Engineering Structure and Geometry, 5 / The Three-Dimensional Formation of Positive and Negative
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members - Photographs of model
01/01/1983
The balsa wood model of the truss assisted in conceiving the structural behavior, especially under earthquake forces. It was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members - Photographs
01/01/1984
Four craftsmen having lunch, lying on the curved truss bents, before the bents were erected inside the Central Building. It was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Central Hall heavy timber truss with curved members - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
The Central Hall truss drawing with details prepared by Mr. Sumiyoshi.
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