Photograph

West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant: Photographs of mockups

01/01/1996

Furniture Making, Mock-up

Two images of a mock-up of the wooden table leg.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

4"x6", Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant 1995

Work of Art for Project, Project Furniture

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Tables of various shapes and sizes, chairs and benches designed and made specifically for the restaurant and its upper gallery. Cardboard and wooden mock-ups of the furniture were designed while the building was stil in construction, for reconciling the feeling ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Projects

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996

Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995

Client:

Edward James Foundation

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, John Hewitt, students from "The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture", students from Portsmouth University

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure, as Management Contractor and General Contractor of record, with John Hewitt as Project Manager

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 Innovativ

The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...

Drawings

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant: Sketches 01/01/1996

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Axonometric, Plan, Elevation, Detail

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Two pages with initial sketches of various table designs including dimensions.