Eishin Campus (school and college, Japan)

The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.

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Institutes (3)

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Eishin School Campus
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A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.
Eishin Gakuen (Eishin campus)
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The school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus
Eishin School (Eishin campus, Iruma-Shi, Tokyo)
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The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.

Chapters (1)

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How Living Process Lays The Groundwork For Coherence Of A City Through The Hulls Of Public Space
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Chapter 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)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Great Hall at Eishin Campusconcept0.815
The main building of the Eishin campus, Japan, serving as primary example of a building as a living center made of beings.
spine structure (Eishin Campus)concept0.793
The central pedestrian skeleton of hulls at the Eishin Campus — streets, lake, bridge — that forms the core connecting all buildings.
Eishininstitute0.771
School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.
The lake is the feature that students and staff most like about Eishin campus.finding0.752
Validation of the importance of the water feature.
The Northwest College Building at Eishin is a firm precise rectangle with an arcade requiring regular column spacing, and a ceiling beam array acting as a horizontal moment-resisting diaphragm for earthquake resistance.finding0.747
Shows the integration of structural necessity (seismic diaphragm) with geometric order
The 200-pattern language for Eishin school completely defined the life of the school even before any physical configuration or architectural design was determinedclaim0.741
Alexander's strongest statement about the generative power of a pattern language list
After moving to this new Eishin campus, the situation became quite reversed. The early buses were always empty. The last bus of the day was full. It was very difficult to get the students to go home.claim0.740
Behavioral evidence of attachment: students felt so at home they resisted leaving, reversing the earlier pattern of early departures.
Eishin campus Great Hall lights exampleconcept0.739
Example of 'do the simplest thing': the simplest candelabra design that met the need, contrasting with the contractor's overly complex fixture.