House for Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Card: Photographs of layout process on the land

01/01/1980

Layout Process on Site

Christopher Alexander on the site of the Card House, laying out the living room on the ground and testing the size and location of the fireplace in relationship to the sitting area.

Photographer:

Gernot Mittersteiner/C.E.S., Portola Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project

House for Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Card 1979 to 1981

Portola Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Designed , Not built

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Card

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Howard Davis

Project stages:

Preliminary Design

Two-story house, with outbuildings, terraceses and gardens.

References

Scientific Research

The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Step by Step Process

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...