Eishin School (Eishin campus, Iruma-Shi, Tokyo)

The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

institute

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

artifact

Eishin Great Hall interior colors
about
The auditorium at Eishin campus, with blackish-red columns, red chevrons, and pale sea-green ceiling, designed to produce a dark, glowing presence.

event

1983 first site visit to Eishin campus
about
Alexander visited the Iruma-shi site and experienced its wholeness as a kind of light that guided material choices.

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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 Gakuen (Eishin campus)institute0.843
The school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus
Eishininstitute0.772
School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.
Great Hall at Eishin Campusconcept0.752
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)concept0.747
The central pedestrian skeleton of hulls at the Eishin Campus — streets, lake, bridge — that forms the core connecting all buildings.
Eishin teachers initially described wanting to walk by a stream, pond, or lake in their ideal school.finding0.738
Initial desires that informed the inclusion of the lake.
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.claim0.738
Behavioral evidence of attachment: students felt so at home they resisted leaving, reversing the earlier pattern of early departures.
Eishin students made a film showing themselves jumping joyfully into the campus lake, fully clothed.finding0.732
Artifact expressing a hymn to freedom and the realization of a dream.
The lake is the feature that students and staff most like about Eishin campus.finding0.721
Validation of the importance of the water feature.