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concept:great-hall-at-eishin-campusGreat Hall at Eishin Campus
The main building of the Eishin campus, Japan, serving as primary example of a building as a living center made of beings.
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- Centersassociated_withPrimary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
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- The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
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- Example of 'do the simplest thing': the simplest candelabra design that met the need, contrasting with the contractor's overly complex fixture.
- The school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus
- A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.
- The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
- The central pedestrian skeleton of hulls at the Eishin Campus — streets, lake, bridge — that forms the core connecting all buildings.
- The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.
- School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.
- Shows the integration of structural necessity (seismic diaphragm) with geometric order