Go BackThe Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Photographs of sketches
01/06/1987Six sequential sketches by Christopher Alexander which show the design unfolding through the formation of centers at each step.
Photograph:
- 1) Getting position of building in relation to site
- 2) Conceiving two courtyards in relation to the curved site boundary
- 3) Getting shape of building from the street curve with dining hall as major center
- 4) Emphasizing dining hall through shape & position it as stong center
- 5) Forming interior arcade as strong center
- 6) The two courtwards & the Dining Hall marked with X, as the key latent center of the whole
References
-
Unfolding of Wholeness in Large Buildings by Successive Transformations of the Space
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 ...
-
Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...