Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with lion’s head

1988

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Cast-concrete lion's head on the back wall of the tiled fountain located in the courtyard of the Julian Street Inn.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Robert M. Walsh

Content of

Project 1 Items

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized, Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

Contents

Models & Mock-ups 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Courtyard fountain with lion's head; model for the lion 01/01/1989

Model

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Robert Walsh, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Scale:

1'=1'

A full scale gypsum-cast model of a lion’s head for the courtyard fountain.

Drawings 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework and Courtyard Fountain with Lion's Head - Sketches 01/01/1988

Sketches, Perspective, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Robert Walsh, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Digitized

Two sketches on the same page, one being a schematic perspective view of the courtyard fountain with a lion’s head depicting the water spouting element and a grid of diagonally placed pattern suggesting the tile layout. The second sketch depicts ...

Photographs 1 Items

The Julian Street Inn - Shelter for Homeless: Lion's Head and hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework for cladding the courtyard fountain - Photographs 01/01/1990

Focus on Details

Photographer:

Mark Darley/Esto, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Digitized

Photograph of fountain with the hand-glazed tiles cladding the fountain base, and the cast concrete lion’s head.

References

Scientific Research 3 Items

Books 1 Items

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

697 pp

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

Book Chapters 1 Items

The Morphology of Living Architecture, 4 / Centers and Symmetries

Publication

Book title:

The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three – A Vision of a Living World

Pages:

662-668

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