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concept:spine-structure-eishin-campusspine structure (Eishin Campus)
The central pedestrian skeleton of hulls at the Eishin Campus — streets, lake, bridge — that forms the core connecting all buildings.
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- A school and college complex near Tokyo, built as an exemplar of a pedestrian world with a spine structure of public hulls.
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- How Living Process Lays The Groundwork For Coherence Of A City Through The Hulls Of Public SpaceintroducesChapter 3 of A Vision of a Living World, introducing the concept of hulls of public space as positive, living spaces shaped by structure-preserving transformations in urban design.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
- The school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus
- Shows the integration of structural necessity (seismic diaphragm) with geometric order
- A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.
- The main building of the Eishin campus, Japan, serving as primary example of a building as a living center made of beings.
- The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.
- Validation of the importance of the water feature.
- School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.