Photograph

Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy Timber Construction Details – Photographs

01/01/1985

Focus on Details

Views of the timber posts with the mortises and tenons shaped for connecting the posts to their concrete base.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color, B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber construction details 1985

Construction System, Heavy Timber Load Bearing Structure

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Seth Wachtel, Lance Dom

Concrete column base and timber column connection; timber capital where column, beam and braces meet and other timber connection details.

Contents

Photographs

References

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 ...

Projects

Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop 1985 to 1986

4207 Arthur Road, 94553, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Offices & Workshops, Realized , Construction completed in Apr-1986

Client:

Center for Environmetal Structure - C.E.S. Directors

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Seth Wachtel, Lance Dom

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$50,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Users involved in the construction Innovative construction methods

The third building completed on the Martinez site was a heavy timber carpentry workshop, 800 square feet of floor area, with 12"x12" columns and 8"x14" beams, specially engineered trusses and wood paneling. .