Etna street Cottage: Photographs of mock-ups

01/01/1974

Mock-up

Six images of window mock-ups. They depict Christopher Alexander in the first two holding a window frame testing its shape and size on the building. The other four images are various window frames also tested on specific wall openings .

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Etna Street Cottage 1974

Etna Street, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1974

Experimental building project, two-story 400 sq. ft. cottage, with a hollow wooden structure filled with concrete and featherweight concrete vaults. Completed in ten weeks, without a building permit at the back of the C.E.S. office on Etna Street, and was ...

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Academic Courses 1 Items

People Rebuilding Berkeley 1974

Academic,

Development of a planning process for the City of Berkeley in which individual neighborhoods had the responsibility for their own improvement through a process based on the use of patterns at a very local scale .