Eishin Campus – High School: College Buildings D and E

The two college buildings on the north side of the College Complex were incorporated into the High School; they are located to the right and left of the Central Hall, flanked by the Arts and Science buildings. Each two-storey college building has two large lecture halls upstairs with the entrance hall and staircase between them, and a long wide arcade downstairs, with a total floor area of 7,000 square feet. The buildings are the simplest possible rectangles, and got their long shape from the way it was needed to surround and form space. The spatial and dimensional requirements of the large classrooms, the entrance volume and the arcades led to an asymmetrical division of spaces to accomodate the differentiated shapes, which gave rise directly to an aperiodic structural grid. .