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1982 to 1986A large ceremonial building located at the main square and forming one edge of the lake. The main bridge that crosses the lake starts next to its massive podium. Its floor area is 14,000 square feet and has a three-story central space that seats 600 persons and side galleries for 600 more, for assemblies of the whole school. Its interior is characterized by its massive columns and special color plasterwork in red, black, white and grey. .
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Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall with massive columns and rather small space between them.
1983
The size and spacing of the columns in the Great Hall was determined primarily by working out the solid-void relationship, which was done in a 1:20 scale model of the building. The space between the columns came to play an ...
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Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall interior colored plasterwork
1985
Black, red, grey, purple and pale green interior plasterwork to cover 40.000 sq. ft of hand etched plasterwork for columns and beams, screen, walls and ceilings for the interior of the Great Hall.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Great Hall lighting fixtures
1986
Design, fabrication and installation of the lights of the Great Hall. A single row of hanging lights down the middle of the nave. Each light fixture is a circle of lights, hanging from a point, in the form of candelabras ...
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Great Hall - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
The Great Hall model, as included in the large scale model of the whole project.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Great Hall - Photographs of drawings
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01/01/1984
A few of the hard-line drawings of the Great Hall. The layout of centers in columns, bays, beams, windows and arches are visible in the south elevation.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Great Hall - Photographs of the building
2 2nd view with the main gate in the distance
01/05/1985
Two end views of the Great Hall looking across the lake. The first photo was exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2, and at the 14th International Architecture Biennale ...
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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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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...
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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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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall with massive columns and raher small space between them - Photographs of model
01/01/1983
Three close-up views of the Great Hall first large scale model of its interior, at 1:20 scale, to enable the vizualization of its interior with as much detail as possible. It was used for working out and testing the size ...
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall interior plasterwork in color - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
Three sketches by Christopher Alexander for the Great Hall columns.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall interior plasterwork in color - Photographs of drawings
01/01/1984
Three color sketches by Christopher Alexander for the Great Hall columns and walls.
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