Part of:

People:

Shoei Yoh (creator)
Shoei Yoh + Architects (architect)
Shoei Yoh (architect)
Shoei Yoh (archive creator)

Title:

Galaxy Toyama Gymnasium, Imizu, Japan (1990-1992)

Date:

1990-1996, 2012

Level of archival description:
project

Extent and medium:

781 drawings, reprographic copies and digital prints
40 digital files
12 panels
0,03 l.m. of textual records
23 photographs (including 14 photographs in an album)
5 bound volumes
4 maps
2 models
1 print

Scope and content:
This file documents the design and construction of the Galaxy Toyama Gymnasium in Imizu, Toyama, Japan. The project was developed as a theme pavilion for the 1st Japan Expo Toyama in 1992. The roof of the gymnasium is an undulating space frame structure with ball joints. Computers were used to find an optimum form for the roof and to calculate the dimensions of each component.

The file contains approximately 200 design development drawings. There are also working drawings, including 72 numbered architectural drawings and 44 structural drawings. Digital material includes a 3-dimensional model of the roof and sections from a photoelasticity experiment. The remainder of the digital files consist of digital images of the built work and scans of drawings.There are a number of images printed out from computer files, including photoelasticity models and 3-D perspectives of the roof and of the building interior. There is a series of images from computer simulations of the roof dating from 1996. A set of 12 presentation panels contain wireframe images of the roof. There is a small amount of textual material, including proposal documents, graphics for the name of the building, publications and facsimile transmissions. Material in this file was created between 1990 and 2012, but predominantly between 1990 and 1992.

Reference number:

AP166.S1.1990.PR1

Arrangement:
Material in this project series is not arranged.

Location:

Imizu-shi Japan

Related units of description:

Some material related to the Galaxy Toyama Gymnasium is in a ring binder in the project file for the Odawara Municipal Sports Complex (see ARCH269566). Some material related to the Galaxy Toyama Gymnasium is found in the project file for the Prospecta Toyama '92 Observatory Tower (see ARCH269286, ARCH269288, ARCH269501, ARCH269524 and ARCH269529).