Sala House: Kitchen terrazzo floor

Three-story tower, 20 feet by 20 feet in plan on each floor, on a wooded, sloping site. The interior structure of the house is wood post and beam with pine panelling and hand-painted surfaces, and the exterior is a red ...

Drawing showing the final pattern of interlocked dark grey stars and light green crosses, used for the construction of the floor.

Two pages of initial pencil sketches for the kitchen terrazzo floor patterns.

Photograph of a mock-up for the terrazzo floor, painted on wood.

Photograph of two pencil early sketches by Christopher Alexander for pattern studies of the terrazzo floor.

Photograph of the colored terrazzo floor mock-up using terrazzo material.

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...