Civic Center & Town Hall for Mountain View: Photographs of drawings

Invited design competition entry. One of five invited entries and winner of first round selection process. The project with 100,000 square feet of total area of construction included: a) the new City Hall building 65,000 sq.ft.; b) Community Theater with ...

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...

Three sections of the project as follows: 1) Main section through the City Hall lobby and the Theater, 2) Section through the Theater, 3) Section through council chamber and plaza.

Five views of the project model, prepared for the invited competition; three from the entrance side along the street and two from the park side. The model portrays clearly the presence of centers in the volumetric arrangement of buildings, throughout ...