Correspondence

West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Exposed herringbone brick pattern with grey flint stone in thin lines: Forwarding detail sketches with various options of window lintels, for the various types of windows including dimensions and special characteristics. With initial notes about critical windows in relation to lintels and suggestions of material layouts of the walls around the windows

17/01/1995

Design Matters, Request for Feedback

Sender:

John Hewitt, Unicorn Consultancy Services Limited, Portsmouth, Hampshire, U.K.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Fax

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 ...