Moore House: House and site model

01/01/1998

Model

A corrugated cardboard site model, with contour lines and slopes, indicating the tree and lake locations and studying the house placement, its volumes and roof material; house model made of balsa wood and thin cardboard.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Seth Wachtel, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

16 3/4"x17 1/8"

Scale:

1/8"=1'

Content of

Project

House for Helen and Myles Moore 1996 to 2000

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Myles and Helen Moore

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Seth Wachtel

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Cast masonry and metal-framed house for chemically sensitive client.