Drawing

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Ceiling Patterns / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Ceiling Patterns – Design Development Drawings

01/12/1985

Design Development, Axonometric, Floor Plan, Section

Two sheets of ink hardline drawings of the flat ceiling; one perspective and one plan.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Vellum

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1 1/2"=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Ceiling pattenrs / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Ceiling pattenrs 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Space Element, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Flat ceiling with geometric patterns and hand-painted flower ornament. Initially applied in the ceilings of the Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops, and then developed as an office space element for the Haworth New Office Furniture System, with ornamental qualities.

Contents

Drawings

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Photographs

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Ceiling Pattenrs / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Ceiling Pattenrs - Photographs 01/01/1986

Construction Innovation, Focus on Details

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Photograph of the painted ceiling pattern.