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1982 to 1985The Dining Hall is located on a high point of the site overlooking the lake, with an extensive lawn in front of it, and the bridge crossing the lake leading into it. It is a wooden, long and narrow building with a floor area of 4,010 square feet, and includes a dining room for serving 400 students, kitchens, group rooms and special private rooms.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Dining Hall heavy timber structure with moment resisting frames
1984
Dining Hall wooden structure with moment resisting frames due to unusually large windows.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Ornaments on the dining hall exterior wall
1985
Row of curved diamonds on the front wall, alternating brown diamonds made of wood with white plastered surfaces. Brown and white create a balanced feeling of positive space and negative space.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: The Dining Hall - Photographs of project model
01/07/1983
The project model showing clearly the location of the Dinning Hall on a high place, within a large landscaped area, over looking the lake.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Dining Hall - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
Colored drawing of the Dining Hall front elevation.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Dining Hall - Photographs of the project during construction
01/01/1984
Erection of the Dining Hall heavy carpentry.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Dining Hall Heavy Timber Structure with moment resisting frames - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
Two views of the balsa wood work model of the heavy timber structural frame. The black pieces of carboard indicate the location of plywood sheets, for the moment resisting frames.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Ornaments on the walls of Homeroom Building and the Dining Hall - Photographs
01/05/1985
Close up view of the Homeroom building wall with cross shaped floral ornaments cast in the concrete, in contrast with the brown and white frieze of curved diamonds on the wall of the Dining Hall in the background.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Ornaments on the Dining Hall - Photographs
01/05/1985
Three images of the row of curved diamonds on the front wall, alternating brown diamonds made of wood with white plastered surfaces. Brown and white create a balanced feeling of positive space and negative space.