Go BackWest Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center: Photographs of sketches
2 2) Early sketch of the south wall windows, focusing on their shape and interplay with the brickwork areas around them
Two early sketches by Christopher Alexander, depicting details of walls and windows.
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References
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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 ...
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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 ...
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Sketches
2 2) Partial elevation with details & material suggestions
01/01/1994
Three sketches of the north wall elevation.
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Exterior wall with exposed herringbone brick pattern, alternating with exposed concrete bands and grey flint stones: Sketch studies of the south wall windows
7 7) Two large windows with the walls segments in-between & at the top with 5th proposal of material configuation
01/01/1995
Series of eight rough sketch versions of the wall material around and between windows. The first sketches show only the outline and thickness of concrete members around the windows, while the others depict the treatment of the wall segments surrounding ...