Arch 263A, Fall 1995 – Terrazzo Tile Making: Construction experience course within the Building Process Area of Emphasis

01/09/1995

Student Work, Paper

Short paper for Architecture 263A, describing the process followed for the production of terrazzo tiles, including photographs from the sequential steps.

Authors:

Jeff Clark, Eric Davis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Content of

Academic Course

Building Process Area of Emphasis: Construction experience course - Introduction to Construction 1995

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Elementary Construction Experience

Course number:

Arch. 263A

Instructors:

Randall Schmidt

Enrolled students:

Jeff Clark, Eric Davis, and three more

The course included weekly work on site under the tutelage of a supervisor and attendance of a lecture every other week. The students procuded terrazzo tiles for an outdoor deck in the Berkeley hills; the five students completed the production ...

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Projects

Sullivan House 1990 to 1994

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1996

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Steve and Susie Sullivan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli, Katalin Bende

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$260,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

House reconstruction design and construction management. Concrete, redwood, fruitwood, plaster, terrazzo tiled floors and hand made metal detailed interiors.

Construction Innovations

Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor 1995

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randy Schmidt, Katalin Bende

850 hand-made tiles with flower, cast in blue and white terrazzo, ground and polished for the terrace floor; mockups and experimentation for developing the flower mold and the way of making them were developed in a construction course, and the ...