From the outset, the gate has been imagined as a way of honoring the college’s many Japanese faculty and students and as a visible acknowledgement of the college’s long-standing relationship with Japan. It has been the capstone project marking the conclusion of a series of classes in traditional Japanese architecture and building practice and is a project built entirely by students of The Evergreen State College.

The gate was constructed in the traditional manner entirely from locally harvested Port Orford Cedar and Douglas Fir. Its style is reminiscent of roofed, open-portal mountain gates that would have been common in 17th and 18th century Japan and is a concrete representation of abstract Japanese architectural concepts of line, form, and space.

Planning and Design/Computer rendering, sketches, conceptual model


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1029,






























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Fabrication-














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1074,

0463,

1152,

1050,

1000,

0642,

0968,

1285,

1669,

1412,

2033,

2001,

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Sub-Assembly-

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2076,

1914,

1993,

2174,

2167,

2149

Assembly-

2141,

2211,

2241,

2311,

2356,

2435,

2447,

2453,

2462,

2463,

2481,

2483,

2515,

2523,

2536

*After we get photos of the roof and cap beam going up and the dedication ceremony, I’ll narrow the list of photos down further.


Contributors and Sponsors-

The project was funded by the Evening and Weekend Studies department of The Evergreen State College and by substantial donations of timber and materials from Puget Sound Energy and from The City of Olympia’s Urban Forestry program.

Special thanks to the Mark Kormondy, Richard Miles, Paul Przybylowicz, Joe Roush, Micki McNaughton, and Sandy Leek.