Photograph

The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor for the house terrace – Photographs

01/01/1996

Interior View

Photograph of the finished terrace terrazzo floor.

Photographer:

Katalin Bende/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor 1995

Work of Art for Project, Terrazzo Work

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Randy Schmidt, Katalin Bende

850 hand-made tiles with flower, cast in blue and white terrazzo, ground and polished for the terrace floor; mockups and experimentation for developing the flower mold and the way of making them were developed in a construction course, and the ...

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

Sullivan House 1990 to 1994

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1996

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Steve and Susie Sullivan

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli, Katalin Bende

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$260,000

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 Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control

House reconstruction design and construction management. Concrete, redwood, fruitwood, plaster, terrazzo tiled floors and hand made metal detailed interiors.

Photographs

The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor for the house terrace - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1995

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

Photographer:

Katalin Bende/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Four photographs of the floor tiles mock-ups and experiments; the first of a test tile; the second of comparing two variations of the pattern size included in one tile; and the other two of tiles arrays, for checking the overall ...