JAPAN, THE EISHIN COLLEGE

PROJECT HISTORY Two years after the campus was completed, the school authorities began to implement their plan to build college buildings for the beginning of their two-year college program. This new neighborhood was immediately next to the original Eishin campus, and interconnected with it. It is still not finished.

Students in the college neighborhood

PROJECT HISTORY

College buildings

POINTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST IN THIS PROJECT

The pattern language (given under Eishin Campus), was made into a generative code by several important features of the process we used.

We ran the construction
several hundred teachers and students played a role in generating the pattern language
we laid out the campus with the teachers and students, in the field, with flags
we continuously made full-size mockups during construction, and checked these on site, amongst ourselves and with the teachers
we controlled the money
the design of layout and buildings changed continuously during construction
we ourselves undertook the site work directly and managed the process completely

Even more important, though, was a unique form of management which we undertook in the overall aspect of the construction works.

More to come
on the form of management