Megaron Mousikis Athinon – Opera House: Music Library marble floor – Photographs of mock-up

Prefabrication of marble floors for the concourse areas of about 8.000 m2, in sections of about two feet by four feet, assembled on a fiberglass matt, with the marble pieces being glued with epoxy to the mat. Individual pieces were ...

In 2002 Megaron Mousikis Athinon was the largest Concert Hall in Athens and was in the process of being extended further by a vast extension, including underground opera house, conference center, library and so on. Christopher Alexander was approached by ...

A small piece of a floor in black, white and green marble; a test tile, intended for the Music Library floor, forming the geometric floor pattern, a mosaic of one hundred pieces, cut using a precision water jet cutter.

In-place created geometric pattern, not previously designed or calculated precisely, composed by full-scale paper pieces of circles and squares; a pattern best fitting a specific space when connected, which follows a rough, sketchy idea. A study of the scale of ...