Sala House: Construction contract for addition to home of Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala

27/09/1986

Contractual, Construction Contract

16-page construction contract between Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala and the Center for Environmental Structure as contractor, for the purpose of building the two story addition to their existing house. The addition should be built as shown in the drawings attached as Appendix 1 and following the ten specified construction operations attached as Appendix 2. Each operation contains analytical costs for each of the items included in it.

Authors:

Mr. & Mrs. Andre and Anna Sala, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Project

Sala House Addition 1986 to 1988

700 Hillside, 94706, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jan-1988

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Andre and Anna Sala

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$80,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Use of full scale mock-ups Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

Two-storey 700 square feet addition to the exisitng house, connected with it at the west facing wall. The extension includes a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom with hot tub. Wood post and beam interior with pine paneling ...

References

Scientific Research

A New Approach to Design and Construction Management

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...

Reports

Sala House: Design Agreement for addition to home of Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala 02/04/1986

Project, Contractual, Design Services Agreement

Authors:

Mr. & Mrs. Andre and Anna Sala, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

6-page signed design agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Andre Sala and the Center for Environmental Structure, for designing a two story addition to their existing house of about 700 square feet. Work will be undertaken in three phases including preliminary ...