Photograph

Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts – Photographs

01/01/1987

Focus on Details

Close up view of the porcelain leopards embedded in the colored concrete floor.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts 1987

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff

Red concrete floor with yellow ceramic leopard inserts for the interior of second Sala House.

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

Sala House Addition 1986 to 1988

700 Hillside, 94706, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in Jan-1988

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Andre and Anna Sala

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$80,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Use of full scale mock-ups Direct Construction management along with on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

Two-storey 700 square feet addition to the exisitng house, connected with it at the west facing wall. The extension includes a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom with hot tub. Wood post and beam interior with pine paneling ...

Photographs

Second Sala House: Concrete floor with leopard inserts - Photographs 01/01/1987

Construction Innovation, Interior View

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Two images of the colored concrete floor with the porcelain leopards embedded.