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Northwest College Building (Eishin Campus)

Two-story college building on the Eishin campus (1987); a firm precise rectangle whose interior subdivision via aperiodic grid creates lecture halls, classrooms, and an arcade with moment-resisting diaphragm ceiling beams

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Methods (1)

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  • Subdivision Process
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    The iterative process of cutting a whole into parts using asymmetry and thin boundary bands to introduce levels of scale and boundaries; a purely geometric process that creates more profound living form

Concepts (1)

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  • Aperiodic Grid
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    A non-regular geometric framework that brings coherent order to built form, emerging naturally from a living process.