Drawing

West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Door and window shaping: Design Development Drawings – Entrance early studies

01/01/1996

Design Development, Elevation

Five drawings illustrating the development of one early design comprised of straight horizontal and curved mullions for the vertical direction.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Derek Boner, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Door and window shaping 1995

Building Detail, Window Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Derek Bonner

The window shapes in relation to the treatment of surrounding wall formed strong centers. The window itself, beautifully shaped and specially made with curved sash. The window surround, cast concrete; beyond the cast concrete herringbone brickwork. Below the window, emphasizing ...

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Scientific Research

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...