Megaron Mousikis Athinon – Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors; mock-up of a full-scale geometrical pattern

01/01/2001

Mock-up

In-place created geometric pattern, not previously designed or calculated precisely, composed by full-scale paper pieces of circles and squares; a pattern best fitting a specific space when connected, which follows a rough, sketchy idea. A study of the scale of the pattern elements.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

18"x18", d=17", d=38"

Scale:

1'=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors, consisting of various sizes and different color marble pieces in geometric and ornamental patterns 2001

Work of Art for Project, Prefabricated Marble Floor

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Golzalez, Larry Berk, Bankoku Sasagawa

Prefabrication of marble floors for the concourse areas of about 8.000 m2, in sections of about two feet by four feet, assembled on a fiberglass matt, with the marble pieces being glued with epoxy to the mat. Individual pieces were ...

References

Projects

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House 2001

Athens, Greece

Civic, Designed , Not built

Client:

OMMA (Organismos Megarou Mousikis Athinon)

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Randall Schmidt, Demetrius Gonzales, Bankoku Sasagawa

Project stages:

Concept Design

In 2002 Megaron Mousikis Athinon was the largest Concert Hall in Athens and was in the process of being extended further by a vast extension, including underground opera house, conference center, library and so on. Christopher Alexander was approached by ...

Photographs

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Music Library marble floor - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/2001

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Photograph of an early paper mock-up for the Music Library marble floor, made to size and tested on the ground.