The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Construction experiments for testing the prefabrication of wall-segment tile panels and lifting them in place: Preparation notes

14/08/1987

Construction Experiment & Mock-up, Cost Estimate, Notes

Three pages of handwritten notes including a two-page cost estimate of materials needed for the five phases of production of the infill panels and one page of notes relating to the order of tiles and the costs of glazing and firing them.

Authors:

Matisse, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Construction Innovation

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Construction experiments for testing the prefabrication of wall-segment tile panels and lifting them in place 1988

Construction System, Hand-glazed Tilework Panel

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black

Series of experiments and tests performed in the C.E.S. workshop in Martinez, for prefabricating wall-segment panels flat on the ground with the hand-glazed tiles, the required reinforcement and concrete layer, and then testing the procedure of lifting them in place. ...

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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...