Photograph

Potash-McCabe House: Red, Yellow and Green Polished Terrazzo Floor with Squares and Stars – Photographs

01/06/1986

Focus on Details

Two photographs of the finished terrazzo floor in the kitchen.

Photographer:

Mark Darley/Esto, San Anselmo, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Potash-McCabe House: Red, yellow and green polished terrazzo floor with squares and stars 1986

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Red, Yellow and Green Polished Terrazzo Floor with Squares and Stars; with styrofoam lost form technique.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Projects

House for Daniel Potash and Maureen McCabe 1986 to 1988

1341 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1988

Client:

Mr. Daniel Potash and Ms. Maureen McCabe

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Chester Cervellino, Mark Brinner, Stephen Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$150,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Complete reconstruction of existing house, with emphasis on the house kitchen. Hand painted interiors, hand-plaster work, furniture, and garden terraces; benches, seats, table, fireplace and floor of kitchen --all built and painted by C.E.S. Total construction 2,500 square feet.