Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall with Open Shelves – Preliminary Design Drawings

01/03/1985

Preliminary Design, Floor Plan, Section, Elevation

Drawings of a thick wall installed in one of the end walls of the production room. Three pages, two with free hand initial sketches and one with a pencil dimensioned hardline design development drawing, prepared for one of the walls of the Sweet Potatoes production room.

Designers:

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

Size:

8 1/2"x22"

Scale:

1"=1'

Content of

Construction Innovation

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls 1985

Construction System, Monocoque Construction

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

A custom made set of thick wall components, all premanufactured with the same height, standardized thickness, and a variety of standardized lengths, to enable the realization of a variety of rooms, as they were laid out by the users. ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Drawings

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall with Open Shelves - Design Development Drawings 01/12/1985

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Axonometric, Section, Elevation

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Vellum

Size:

8 1/2"x11", 13"x20"

Scale:

1 1/2"=1'

Four sheets of ink hardline drawings of the thick wall with open shelves, installed in the Sweet Potatoes production room, at one of its end walls; includes axonometric, elevation and sections with basic dimensions.

Photographs

Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Wall with Open Shelves - Photographs 01/01/1985

Construction Innovation, Interior View, Work in Progress

Photographer:

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

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

One view of the whole wall being installed in one of the end walls of the production room.