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Eishin Campus – High School: Gymnasium
1982 to 1985The Gymnasium is a large, 11,340 square feet, wooden building, surrounded by the water of the lake and accessed through a bridge. The walls covered with black plaster, and the dark red metal roof give its exterior identity, and wood hammer beam heavy timber trusses its interior.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium heavy timber hammerbeam trusses
1984
Gymnasium hammerbeam roof trusses, spanning 53 feet, with mortise and tenon connection details, and specially fabricated steel connections for joints.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium window shaping and details
1984
A row of unsual shaped windows, creating positive space in alternation with the beautifully shaped wall segments, and coherent individual centers, small and large.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Gymnasium black shikkui plastered walls and roof detail
1985
Gymnasium black shikkui plastered exterior walls, unusual shaped windows, roof eave and orange-painted steel bracket plates holding the roof rafters.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Design Development Drawings of Gymnasium - Floor plans
01/04/1984
Drawing sheet with the ground floor plan.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Design Development Drawings of Gymnasium - Elevations
2 2) South and north elevations
01/04/1984
Two drawing sheets containing three elevations.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Design Development Drawings of Gymnasium - Sections
2 2) Two cross sections
01/04/1984
Two drawing sheets containing three sections.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Gymnasium - Photographs of model
2 2nd view
01/03/1984
Two views of the Gymnasium model showing the façade treatment; the roof of the model was removable to enable the study of its interior as well.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Gymnasium - Photographs of drawings
3 3) Cross & longitudinal sections
01/01/1984
Three hard-line drawings of the Gymnasium as completed.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Gymnasium - Photographs of the building
01/05/1985
The gymnasium finished in black shikkui and the pedestrian path along the arcades of the homebase classrooms, as viewed across the lake. In the distance, the top of the Central Building roof. The photo was exhibited during the 10th Annual Louis ...
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The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...
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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 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: Gymnasium - Heavy timber hammerbeam trusses - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
Balsa wood work model of the building with the heavy timber trusses.
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The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium - Window shaping and details - Photographs of model
01/03/1984
Large scale model testing shape, proportions and details of the Gymnasium windows.
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The Campus of Eishin - High School: Gymnasium - Heavy timber hammerbeam trusses - Photographs of drawings
01/03/1984
Views of two drawings with fabricated connection details of the truss members.
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