Record

House for Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Card: Wooden Plank Roof with its Details

01/01/1981

Construction Works, Construction Process

12-page document outlines three important building operations for the construction of the project, namely: Column-Beam Connection, Russian Plank Roof, and Wooden Window. Each building operation includes the “Summary of Operation” chart and detailed drawings. The Russian plank roof detail was originally developed for the Martinez house. The above is also included in the C.E.S. Office Construction Manual draft.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, others, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Construction Innovation

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Wooden plank roof construction details 1981

Building Detail, Roof & Eave

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Jonathan Feffermann, Leonidas Pakas

The "Russian" type plank roof consists of two layers of long boards running from ridge to eave, with two grooves milled in each board; before being built on the house, its construction method and detailing was tried on the small ...

References

Scientific Research

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Innovation

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Projects

Records

Center for Environmental Structure - Organization of Construction Manual 01/01/1981

C.E.S. Office, C.E.S. Projects Overview, Construction Manual

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

5-page draft document listing the nine volumes of a construction manual, explaining the terms by which a construction operation could be included and describing the required information that each building operation must fill-out in special forms. Included are three additional ...