Photograph

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja House copper medallions on the exterior walls – Photographs

18/03/2018

Exterior View, Focus on Details

Image of the medallions, about 12″ in diameter, running at the height of the perimeter beam of the first floor.

Photographer:

Dan Klynn, Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Copper medallions on the exterior walls of the Gioja House 1995

Work of Art for Project, Ornament

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

The medallions, about 12" in diameter, are running at the height of the perimeter beam of the first floor; wooden mold has been used for the shaping of the copper.

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

Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House 1992 to 1996

Lake Travis, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1995

Client:

Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey and Linda Gioja

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure with Carl Lindberg

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

Design and construction of a family house for Geoffrey and Linda Gioja, with an area of 2.100 square feet.