Eishin Gakuen (Eishin campus)

The school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus

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Institutes (2)

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Eishin Campus (school and college, Japan)
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The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
Eishin School Campus
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A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 5: How Living Process Generates
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Chapter 5 of Volume 3 of The Nature of Order, discussing how living process generates positive space and volume on the land through structure-preserving transformations.

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.

Eishin School (Eishin campus, Iruma-Shi, Tokyo)institute0.843
The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.
Great Hall at Eishin Campusconcept0.823
The main building of the Eishin campus, Japan, serving as primary example of a building as a living center made of beings.
Eishininstitute0.788
School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.
spine structure (Eishin Campus)concept0.779
The central pedestrian skeleton of hulls at the Eishin Campus — streets, lake, bridge — that forms the core connecting all buildings.
Eishin campus Great Hall lights exampleconcept0.776
Example of 'do the simplest thing': the simplest candelabra design that met the need, contrasting with the contractor's overly complex fixture.
The lake is the feature that students and staff most like about Eishin campus.finding0.750
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.finding0.736
Shows the integration of structural necessity (seismic diaphragm) with geometric order
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.claim0.719
Behavioral evidence of attachment: students felt so at home they resisted leaving, reversing the earlier pattern of early departures.